Boone County, IN Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Section 90.04(B)(9) of the Litter Control chapter bars any person in control of premises where a refuse, water or garbage container sits from letting that material remain uncollected, or the container unemptied, for more than 15 days, or until the accumulation creates a condition offensive to people on private premises or in a public place, whichever comes first. A companion provision, § 90.04(B)(10), places the same 15-day cap on anyone who has contracted to collect and remove refuse, waste or garbage from a residential, business or commercial building, meaning a hauler that misses pickups is independently liable alongside the property owner; that subsection also lets the county impound the offending container and place a lien against property connected to the hauler's business.

Both duties sit within the broader property-maintenance framework of § 90.04(B), enforced by the Boone County Health Department and Area Plan Commission under § 90.03, and both are backed by the notice-and-abatement process in § 90.99(B): a written notice giving 15 days to fix the problem, a right to deny before the Violations Clerk, and fines up to $2,500 per day if a Hearing Board finds a continuing violation. The code sets no specific collection days or curbside placement times; its rule is the outer time limit a full or overflowing container can sit before it becomes a violation.