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Skagway committee backs changes to draft bear‑resistant garbage‑can ordinance
Summary
The Solid Waste Advisory Committee reviewed a draft ordinance to require bear‑resistant garbage cans for repeat offenders and recommended removing a 6‑month repeat‑offender window, adding explicit hours for putting cans out, and ensuring fines plus requirement to purchase a bear‑resistant can are clear.
The Skagway Municipality Solid Waste Advisory Committee reviewed a draft ordinance amendment on Jan. 29 that would require property owners deemed repeat offenders of bear‑attractant rules to obtain bear‑resistant garbage cans and face civil fines.
Committee members asked that the draft remove the clause defining a "repeat offender" as someone cited two or more times "in a period of six consecutive months," arguing the city should be able to…
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