Dixmont, ME Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Section 5 of the Dixmont Mobile Home Park Ordinance is titled Management Standards, and subsection E, Refuse Collection, holds the whole collection rule: collection of refuse shall be conducted at least weekly. The same subsection puts collection and disposal on the Mobile Home Park operator and requires the work to be accomplished according to state and local regulations. The ordinance names no collection day, no hauler and no time of day, so the weekly floor is the only schedule term it prints.

The rule applies inside a mobile home park, which the ordinance defines as a parcel of land under unified ownership approved by the Town for the placement of three or more manufactured homes. Residents of such a park do not each arrange service. The operator does, and the Town's Code Enforcement Officer (CEO) holds the operator to the standard.

A companion standard sits in Section 4(M)(2), Refuse Storage. Refuse must be stored so as to minimize health hazards, rodent harborage, insect breeding areas, accident, wild fire, obnoxious odors, air pollution, and access to domestic or wild animals. Weekly collection and compliant storage are two separate duties, and the operator answers for both.

Enforcement runs through the park license. The Board of Selectmen issues the annual Mobile Home Park license, and the fee schedule in Section 3 sets it at seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per approved lot. Section 3(A)(1) makes it the responsibility of the CEO to enforce the ordinance and carry out inspections as requested by the Board of Selectmen. Section 3(G)(2) authorizes the CEO, with the advice and consent of the Board of Selectmen, to institute or cause to be instituted by the Town Attorney any legal or equitable action needed to enforce it, and Section 3(G)(1) treats any condition that violates the ordinance as a nuisance.

Outside a licensed park, the Mobile Home Park Ordinance sets no refuse collection rule.