Multi-Family Solid Waste Charge
Applicability:
- Outside Municipalities, these rates apply to dwellings in
buildings of seven (7) or greater dwellings per building. (If < 7
dwellings/building, see "Single-Family".)
- Inside Municipalities, these rates apply to all multi-family
dwellings.
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These rates do not apply to townhouses; a townhouse
is a single-family dwelling.
Disposal fees | Base
Systems Benefit Charge | Incremental Systems
Benefit Charge | Refuse Collection Charge |
Leaf Vacuuming Charge | Appeal
of the Dwelling Unit Count
Disposal Fees:
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ZERO; generally not applicable to multi-family properties.
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If the property's private sector refuse collector uses the County's
transfer station, a “tipping fee” of $56.00/ton is paid there based
on the amount of waste delivered. This fee may be passed on to the
property owner by the private refuse collector.
Base Systems Benefit Charge:
- Paid by property owners via the tax bill: $3.92/dwelling/year.
- Designed to cover, together with tipping fees, the County’s costs
of developing and maintaining the basic programs and facilities necessary
to fulfill the County's legal obligation to provide for the management
of solid waste generated by multi-family properties within the County.
These charges provide for overall solid waste program administration
(including solid waste enforcement activities, Dickerson Facilities
Master Plan and general program development, Division management personnel,
and general engineering/technical support, etc.), waste reduction programs,
debt service on existing facilities (including the Transfer Station,
the Oaks Landfill, the RRF
and the MRF),
and residential mixed paper processing.
Incremental Systems Benefit Charge:
- Paid by all property owners via the tax bill: $12.50 per dwelling
unit.
- This fee covers the County’s cost of assisting in the development
of recycling systems for multi-family properties, including the review
of program designs and educational materials, and county outreach,
education and enforcement activities.
- The recycling rate in multi-family buildings has been the consistently
lower than those of the single-family or non-residential sectors.
The County employs substantial outreach and enforcements efforts to
improve this. It is the law that all multi-family buildings must have
prescribed recycling programs, and it is the responsibility of building
management as well as residents to recycle.
Refuse Collection Charge:
- ZERO; not applicable to multi-family properties (buildings comprised of greater than six dwellings). The County does not currently provide refuse collection services to any multifamily properties in buildings of greater than six dwellings.
Leaf Vacuuming Charge:
Appeal of the Dwelling Unit Count
- The fee simple owner of a multi-family property is billed, on a single tax bill, for all the multi-family dwelling units on the property as reported by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT). That number of dwelling units, used to calculate the total solid waste charge, appears on the bill under the heading ”units”.
- Owners of multi-family properties may send written request for reconsideration of that dwelling unit count, including supporting documentation upon which the County can rely (e.g. current rental licensing documents, or municipal inspection reports) to
- Robert C. Hoyt, Director,
Department of Environmental Protection
via Theresa Souders,
Division of Solid Waste Services
101 Monroe Street, 6th Floor
Rockville, Maryland 20850
Footnote
With respect to the Leaf Vacuuming Charges, the phrase "multi-family"
refers to non-townhouse buildings comprised of three or more dwellings
per building, and the seven-or-greater criteria does not apply. back
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