Miramar, FL Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Section 18-4 anchors the mandatory-service structure the rest of Chapter 18 builds on. It places an affirmative duty on every owner of improved real property in the city, residential or commercial, to keep garbage, garden trash and other waste from accumulating in a continued, excessive or unsightly way, and treats any failure to do so as a chapter-wide violation, not merely an administrative lapse. When the city issues a notice about an accumulation, the owner has five days to have the Municipal Solid Waste removed and to pay whatever fees are associated with that collection.

That duty pairs with Section 18-2, which makes occupancy of any residential unit, commercial establishment or improved property prima facie evidence that garbage is being produced and that collection fees are owed, so owners cannot avoid the service charge by claiming they generate no waste. as the city's solid waste franchisee under a Solid Waste and Recycling Collection Services Agreement, and Section 18-6 gives the City Manager, Public Works Director or a designee the authority to set the type, frequency and amount of collection service a customer receives.

Because the ordinance defines the service as mandatory rather than opt-in, a property owner cannot decline curbside pickup to avoid the fee; Section 18-51 sets that fee at the rate in the Franchise Agreement, and Section 18-53 allows unpaid fees to become a special assessment lien against the real property.