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ORDINANCE NO. 6798
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY CODE TITLE 4,
CHAPTER 2, SECTION 74 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, TO
PROVIDE FOR THE PROPER STORAGE OF TIRES; TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE
DATE; TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY
COMMISSION, AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE SAME
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Augusta-Richmond County Code Section 4-2-74, is hereby amended by
deleting said section in its entirety, which section reads as follows:
S 4-2-74. ACCUMULATION.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person in a residential zone to accumulate any amount
of scrap tires on or around property which they own or occupy.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any commercial business other than those excepted in
O.C.G.A. S 12-8-40.1 (g) to accumulate more than one hundred scrap tires on the
property which it owns or occupies at any given time.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person or entity authorized by this article and/or state
law to handle, store and/or dispose of scrap tires, to do so in any manner other
than the following: permitted quantities of scrap tires may be stored outside the
property of an authorized business in a container enclosed on all fours sides by a
solid screen and having a secure top cover, which container is not visible from
any public right of way or any adjoining property.
and substituting in lieu thereof a new section which shall read as follows:
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S 4-2-74. ACCUMULATION.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person in a residential zone to accumulate or store any
amount of any type of tire, to include new tires, used tires or scrap tires, outside in
the weather where water could otentially accumulate and cause blight or potential
health threats due to mosquito infestation on or around property which he/she may
own or occupy.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any commercial business other than those excepted in
O.c.G.A. S 12-8-40.1 (g) to accumulate more than one hundred scrap tires of any
type, to include new tires, used tires or scrap tires, outside in the weather where
water could potentially accumulate and cause blight or potential health threats due
to mosquito infestation on or around property which it owns or occupies at any
given time.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person or entity authorized by this article and/or state
law to handle, store and/or dispose of scrap tires, to do so in any manner other
than the following: permitted quantities of scrap tires may be stored outside the
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property of an authorized business in a container enclosed on all fours sides by a
solid screen and having a secure top cover, which container is not visible from
any public right of way or any adioining property.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to store new or used tires outside in
the weather in such a manner, as determined by the Richmond County Health
Department, so as to provide harborage for mosquitoes. New or used tires stored
outside are not to be visible from any public right-of-way, or adioining property.
Section 2. All laws or ordinances or parts of laws or ordinances in conflict with this
Ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 3. If any section, provision, or clause of any part of this Ordinance be declared
invalid or unconstitutional, or if the provisions of any part of this Ordinance as applied to
any particular situation or set of circumstances be declared invalid or unconstitutional,
such invalidity shall not be construed to affect portions of this Ordinance not so held to
be invalid, or the application of this Ordinance to other circumstances not so held to be
invalid. It is hereby declared as the intent that this Ordinance would have been adopted
had such invalid portion not been included herein.
Section 4.
This Ordinance shall become effective upon adoption.
Duly adopted this 7th
day of lImp
,2005.
BY:
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Mayor b Y un
Waive 2nd Readin
ATTEST:
First Reading:
June 7, 2005
Waive 2nd reading
Second Reading:
Publish in the Augusta Chronicle June 16 2005