Sandy, UT Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum frequency
- At least once per week
- Fee authority
- Set by City Council resolution
- Billing method
- Can appear on culinary water statement
- Unpaid fees
- Treated as a civil debt to the City
- Compliance checks
- City or its hauler inspects premises
- Legal disposal channel
- City sanitary fill or licensed off-site site
Summary
Sandy City requires solid waste service to remove garbage and rubbish from subscriber premises at least once every week. The City Council sets collection fees by resolution, can bill them on the culinary water statement, and treats unpaid charges as a civil debt owed by the property's owner, tenant, or occupant.
Removal of garbage or rubbish from the premises of the subscribers for service herein provided shall be made at least once each week. For the services of the solid waste collection and removal, in collecting and disposing of garbage and rubbish, the owner, tenant or occupant of each place to which the services of solid waste collection are made available...shall be charged such fees as may be established by resolution of the City Council. Said fees and charges shall be deemed a civil debt owing to the City from the owner, tenant or occupant of the property to which the solid waste collection services are made available.
Full Breakdown
Sandy City Code section 19-4-7 sets the baseline collection schedule: removal of garbage or rubbish from the premises of subscribers for the service must happen at least once each week. Section 19-4-9 funds that service by charging fees established by resolution of the City Council to the owner, tenant, or occupant of each place where solid waste collection is made available, and to anyone disposing of their own waste at the sanitary landfill; those fees and charges are deemed a civil debt owed to the City.
The City Council may place the solid waste charge directly on the culinary water statement, with the collected funds held by the City Treasurer. Section 19-4-8 lets the City divide itself into sanitary districts for collection purposes, and section 19-4-10 gives the City authority to adopt rules and regulations, consistent with the chapter, governing how garbage and rubbish are kept, collected, removed, and disposed of. Section 19-4-1 separately bars anyone from dumping, burying, or disposing of garbage, rubbish, bulky waste, dead animals, or hazardous waste anywhere in the City except at the City-operated sanitary fill or a facility outside city limits, reinforcing that the weekly curbside pickup is the sanctioned disposal channel for residential waste generated on a property.
Violations & Fines
A duly authorized City representative or its solid waste contractor may examine premises for compliance under section 19-4-5; upon notification, a property found in violation of the chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. Unpaid collection fees are a civil debt to the City under section 19-4-9 and can be added to the property's culinary water statement for collection.
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