ORDINANCE NO. 22-___
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING AND RESTATING
CHAPTER 15.44 INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT
WHEREAS, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, commonly referred to as Assembly Bill (AB939), codified in substantial part at Public Resources Code § 40000 et. seq., requires each local jurisdiction in the State to divert 50 percent of discarded materials (base year 1990, state methodology) from landfills, and transformation facilities; and
WHEREAS, AB341 (Chesbro) was enacted by the California Legislature making it a policy goal of the State to divert 75 percent of solid waste away from the landfills by 2020, through source reduction, recycling and composting; and
WHEREAS, AB1826 (Chesbro) was enacted by the California Legislature requiring a business that generates more than two cubic yards of commercial solid waste per week, including multi-family residential complexes to arrange for recycling services specifically for organic waste; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1383 (SB1383), the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016 (Lara), requires California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to develop regulations to reduce organics in landfills as a source of methane. The regulations place requirements on multiple entities including cities, counties, residential households, commercial businesses and business owners, commercial edible food generators, haulers, self-haulers, food recovery organizations, and food recovery services to support achievement of statewide organic waste disposal reduction targets; and
WHEREAS, SB1383 requires cities to adopt and enforce an ordinance or enforceable mechanism to implement relevant provisions of SB1383 regulations. This ordinance will also help reduce food insecurity by requiring commercial edible food generators to arrange to have the maximum amount of their edible food waste, that would otherwise be disposed, be recovered for human consumption; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to California Constitution Article 11, § 7, as implemented in part by Public Resources Code § 40059, and the Santa Clarita Municipal Code Chapter 15.44, the City of Santa Clarita (City) has the authority to regulate solid waste generation in the City; and
WHEREAS, organic waste constitutes a substantial percentage of the waste stream in the State and these materials have significant potential for waste reduction and recycling; and
WHEREAS, diverting organic waste from landfills reduces greenhouse gas generation into the environment.
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Amendment of Chapter 15.44 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code entitled “Integrated Waste Management” is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as shown in Exhibit A, incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days from its passage and adoption.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this_______day of _____________ 2022.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
DATE:___________________________
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance 22-______ was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 11th day of January 2022. That thereafter, said ordinance was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 25h day of January, 2022, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance 22- and was published in The Signal newspaper in accordance with State Law (G.C. 40806).
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CITY CLERK