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SECTION 3. AMENDMENT OF CODE. Section 6-3 . 02 "Receptacles" of Chapter 3, "Garbage, Refuse, Swill, Water Matter, and Recyclables" of Title 6 entitled "Sanitation and Health" of the Los Altos Hills. Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: Except as otherwise set forth in Section 6-3 . 03 of this Chapter, all garbage, refuse, swill, and waste matter shall, by the person upon whose premises the same shall have been produced or accumulated, be placed in a watertight, galvanized metal or plastic container of not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) gallons net capacity, of a design approved by the Health Officer or other person designated by the Council, which container shall be kept clean and continuously closed by a tight-fitting, galvanized metal or plastic cover, except when garbage, refuse, swill or waste .matter is being dumped within or removed therefrom, and which shall be proofed against the access of flies and rodents. The contents of such containers shall be delivered not less than once a week to the scavenger authorized by the Town to collect such contents in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter; provided, however, that a household or other occupancy may be exempted from mandatory garbage collection by the City Manager if the occupant demon- strates in writing how garbage and other wastes are disposed of in ways that are equal to or better than the authorized scavenger collection. All recyclables shall, by the person upon whose premises the recyclables shall have been produced or accumulated, be placed in a box or other container. The contents of such containers shall be delivered not less than every other week, on the same day as the delivery of the garbage container, to the scavenger authorized by the Town to collect such recyclables in accordance with the provisions of' this Chapter. SECTION 4. AMENDMENT OF CODE. Section 6-3. 04 "Collection: Time, Manner, Vehicles" of Chapter 3, "Garbage, Refuse, Swill, Water Matter, and Recyclables" of Title 6 entitled "Sanitation and Health" of the Los Altos Hills Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: Collection of garbage, refuse, swill, and waste matter shall be made at every household or other occu- pancy at least once a week; provided, however, that a household or other occupancy may be exempted from mandatory garbage collection by the City Manager if the occupant demonstrates in writing how garbage and other wastes are disposed of in ways that are equal to or better. than the authorized scavenger collection. 2