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

Chapter 91 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances does not spell out pickup days, container types or set-out times directly in the ordinance text; instead, § 91.03 delegates that job to the Board of Public Works and Safety, authorizing it, subject to Common Council approval, to prescribe and promulgate regulations providing the methods used in the storage, collection and disposal of all garbage and rubbish citywide. Section 91.02 gives the same board the underlying power to collect and dispose of garbage and rubbish in the first place, and § 91.04 lets it appoint a superintendent of garbage and rubbish collection and hire the labor and buy the vehicles needed to run the program, while § 91.05 lets the board or council contract out that collection work to a private hauler under bid.

Any contractor who takes that work is bound by the board's collection and disposal regulations the same as if the city ran the trucks itself. Residents looking for the actual pickup-day schedule or container rules need the regulations the board has adopted under this authority, not the ordinance text itself, since § 91.03 is the enabling clause rather than the rule book. The chapter's general penalty section, § 91.99, makes clear that board regulations issued under § 91.03 have real teeth: violating one of them is treated the same as violating the chapter directly.