Farmersville, TX Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Residential collection frequency
- Once per week
- Service
- Mandatory for all residents
- Commercial trigger
- Electric or water service
- Outside-city rate
- 200% of standard residential fee
- Franchise structure
- Single independent contractor citywide
Summary
Farmersville requires every resident to use the city's authorized garbage contractor, with weekly residential pickup, and requires any commercial customer with electric or water service to carry garbage service too.
(a)Residential. ... All residents within the city shall be required to use the waste disposal services offered directly by the city under its authorized contractor.(b)Commercial.(1)Any commercial customer who has electric or water service is required to have garbage service through a city-authorized contractor and shall pay the required fee for this service. ... These fees shall provide for residential collection once per week. Any residential customer who has electric and water service, or who inhabits a residential unit, is required to have garbage service through a city authorized contractor and shall pay the required fee for this service.
Full Breakdown
' Commercial customers face the same rule triggered by utility service, any commercial customer who has electric or water service is required to carry garbage service through the city-authorized contractor and pay the required fee, though the dumpster size is left to the customer's discretion, and businesses may share a dumpster if a written sharing agreement is filed at city hall, or contract independently for a 30-yard or 42-yard roll-off if an eight-yard container proves inadequate. Section 59-30(a)(2) fills in the schedule itself: residential fees 'provide for residential collection once per week,' and any residential customer with electric and water service, or who simply inhabits a residential unit, must carry garbage service through the authorized contractor.
Customers outside the city limits are charged 200 percent of the standard residential rate for the same weekly service, and brush collection is not extended to those nonresident accounts. All of this runs through the franchise structure set out in section 59-21, under which an independent contractor holds the city's exclusive garbage and refuse collection franchise.
Violations & Fines
Failing to maintain mandatory garbage service where required, or bypassing the authorized contractor, is enforced under chapter 59's general penalty in section 59-20: a misdemeanor punishable in municipal court by a fine of up to $2,000.00 per offense, with each day the violation continues treated as a separate offense.
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