Oakland, CA Excess Litter Fee

Oakland, Calif Excess Litter Fee Program

Type: Ordinance

Status: Adopted

Date: February 21, 2006

Introduction:

On February 21, 2006, The City of Oakland adopted Ordinance 12727, enacting an Excess Litter Fee on Fast Food Businesses, Convenience Markets, Gasoline Station Markets and Liquor Stores. The purpose of this ordinance is to create and maintain safe, clean and sanitary streets, sidewalks, and public spaces by assessing a fee on businesses known to generate particularly high amounts of disposable materials that end up as trash and litter on the streets. The fee will not only provide the resources to collect and dispose of such trash to keep our City clean, but will also prevent trash and litter from entering the City’s storm water runoff system, and potentially polluting those waters and/or hampering the proper performance of our system.

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