Sewage Billing News: Understanding the Solid Waste Ordinance establishing the trash fee

April 9, 2018

A quick guide to understanding the city ordinance which established the trash fee (Terre Haute City Code Chapter 9, Article 5, section 9-115).

Provides overall lower fees and improved sanitary conditions to all eligible dwellings within the city limits.

A dwelling which is eligible to receive a trash fee is a "structure located within the City which includes a room or series of rooms located within a building or mobile home and forming a single habitable unit with facilities, which are used, OR are intended to be used for living, cooking, eating and sleeping".  Examples of eligible dwellings include homes, condominiums, apartment buildings with 4 or less units (trash fee for each separate home, condo or apartment unit).  

Credits are available for age 65+, blind or disabled persons and disabled veteran/surviving spouses.