Lawton, OK Trash & Recycling: Holiday Pickup Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Commercial/industrial on holidays
- No refuse service that day
- Residential/multifamily on holidays
- Service continues or is rescheduled
- Guaranteed floor
- Minimum once-per-week collection
- Base weekly service
- § 22-4-1-403(A)(1) sets the normal cadence
- Last amended
- Ord. No. 22-09, § 6, Feb. 8, 2022
Summary
Lawton suspends refuse pickup for commercial and industrial utility accounts on City holidays, but residential and multifamily service keeps running or gets rescheduled by the City to guarantee at least one pickup a week. A holiday never lets the City drop household collection below weekly.
No refuse service will be provided for commercial and industrial utility accounts on days designated by the City as City holidays. Residential and multifamily refuse collection services may be conducted on City holidays or may be rescheduled by the City as necessary to achieve a minimum collection frequency of once per week.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 2 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Section 22-4-1-406 draws a clear line between account types on a City holiday. Commercial and industrial customers simply get no refuse service that day, full stop. Residential and multifamily accounts are different: the City can either run the truck on the holiday as normal or push the pickup to another day, but whichever it does, the code locks in a floor of once-per-week collection that a holiday cannot undercut. This sits on top of the base schedule set in Section 22-4-1-403(A)(1), which gives each one- or two-family unit weekly automated cart service, so a holiday shift is a rescheduling event, not a skipped week.
The provision was last amended by Ordinance No. 22-09, Section 6, adopted February 8, 2022, and it applies citywide regardless of which part of town a route covers. Residents whose cart day falls near a City holiday should expect the pickup to move rather than disappear, while a commercial account on the same holiday simply waits until its next scheduled day.
Violations & Fines
There is no separate fine tied to a holiday shift itself; instead, the underlying container and placement rules in Article 22-4-1 keep applying on a rescheduled day. Carts left out past the 8:00 a.m. removal deadline or set out before 5:00 p.m. the prior evening, holiday week or not, are punished under Section 22-4-1-411 through the general penalty in Section 1-1-119(A)(5): up to $750 or 60 days in jail, each day a separate offense.
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