Johns Creek uses an open-market system of registered private haulers, not city trucks. Every resident and business must subscribe to an approved hauler. The required minimum residential service is weekly garbage, weekly recycling, weekly yard trimmings, and once-monthly bulky trash.
Johns Creek does not run its own garbage trucks or set rates. Instead, Chapter 42 of the Code requires the city to make collection available through registered private haulers, and Sec. 42-4 makes it the responsibility of every residential and commercial customer to be served by an approved, registered, and contracted hauler (or city-operated service). Failing to have service is itself a violation of the chapter. The city sets the minimum service level: under Sec. 42-19, residential basic service is at least once-a-week garbage pickup, once-a-week recycling, once-a-week yard trimmings, and once-a-month bulky trash pickup; commercial customers get at least weekly garbage and recycling, with other frequencies set by contract. Haulers must register with the city, carry decals, and be assigned to geographic zones with designated days of service (Sec. 42-27) to reduce truck traffic. Rates and contract terms are negotiated directly between residents and haulers; the city posts each registered hauler's base rates but does not control them. A related noise rule (Sec. 30-20(d)) prohibits the collection of trash or refuse between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Not subscribing to a registered hauler violates Chapter 42 (Sec. 42-4). Code violations are enforced under the general penalty (Sec. 1-7): up to a $1,000.00 fine and/or six months, with each day a separate offense. Haulers face separate registration and contract requirements.
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