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Councilman Woods offers amendment to Mobile trash ordinance to add fines, remove jail penalty
Summary
At the May 6 Mobile City Council meeting, Councilman Woods offered an amendment to a planned change to Chapter 25 (garbage and trash) that would add a tiered fine structure for violations of cart rules, remove a three‑month jail penalty, and require clearer timing rules for cart placement; the measure was discussed but not decided.
Councilman Woods offered an amendment to a proposed revision of Chapter 25 of the Mobile City Code related to household garbage and trash rules at the May 6 Mobile City Council meeting.
In the amendment to the amendment, Woods said the changes aim to “spell out a time you put your card in and what a time your card needs to be backed by,” add specific fines rather than a flat $350 penalty, and remove the three‑month jail term that appeared in the draft code. He described the proposed fines as a…
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