City of Gulfport Utility Rate Structure

Sanitation Utility Fee

(City Ordinance No. 2022-03)

Section 11-21. Service Charges

All residents, occupants or owners of each living unit and/or business in the City shall have all accumulations of garbage and trash removed and disposed of by the garbage and trash collection service rendered, arranged for or otherwise authorized by the City.

The foregoing garbage and trash collection and disposal service charge shall be according to the following:

(1) Twenty-seven dollars and seventy four cents ($27.74) per month for each commercial business not utilizing bulk containers;

(2) For multiple-dwelling units (duplexes, apartments, condominiums, etc.), for each unit not utilizing bulk containers, the monthly charge shall be twenty-seven dollars and seventy four cents ($27.74) per dwelling unit;

(3) For multiple-residential dwelling units the rate where mechanical loading containers are used shall be sixteen dollars and sixty two cents ($16.62) per month for each dwelling unit;

(4) The garbage and trash disposal service shall entitle the person or business responsible for the same to the equivalent of three (3) thirty-two-gallon containers of garbage or secured bags and trash to be picked up twice weekly, so long as such containers or any of the aforementioned substitutes are limited to fifty (50) pounds or one (1) ninety-gallon or two (2) forty-gallon mechanical containers;

(5) If more than three (3) thirty-two-gallon containers per collection of garbage and trash per living unit or business require collection, the person or business responsible for the same shall be assessed upon his or her water bill, or otherwise, and shall pay an additional nine dollars and twenty-four cents ($9.24) per container or bag per pick-up or twelve dollars and thirty eight cents ($12.38) per mechanical container per pickup;

(6) Special users of garbage and trash collection services, such as circuses, tent shows, carnivals, special events and miscellaneous transient users, shall pay a fee for garbage and trash collection, as determined by the city manager, or his or her designee, based upon a reasonable estimate of the anticipated service required, at the time the license for such business shall be issued, in accordance with the estimated quantity to be collected, plus an additional sum of ten (10) percent of the estimated fee to compensate for the extra duties imposed of a temporary nature;

(7) For commercial entities utilizing three hundred-gallon bulk container rates:

     a. Once per week, per month, per container …..$99.67

     b. Each additional pick-up, per month …..$99.67

     c. Extra one time pick-up, each …..$25.43

(8) For commercial entities utilizing ninety-gallon bulk container rates:

      a. Once per week, per month, per container …..$29.91

      b. Each additional pick up, per month …..$29.91

     c. Extra one time pickup, each …..$25.43

(9) For a single residential dwelling unit the monthly charge shall be twenty seven dollars and seventy-four cents ($27.74);

(10) For mobile home parks, the rate shall be sixteen dollars and sixty two cents ($16.62) per month for each dwelling unit;

Recycling Utility Fee

(City Ordinance No. 2022-03)

(11) All private properties within the city shall be assessed a recycling fee, whether or not the owner or tenant thereof participates in the city’s recycling program, which fee shall be due and payable monthly as invoiced by the city at the following:

     Mobile homes, duplexes, multi-family, per unit …..$1.52

     Single-family households …..$2.53

     Commercial, other not utilizing bulk containers …..$2.53

     Commercial, schools, other using ninety-gallon containers (per container) …..$2.67

     Commercial, schools, other using three-hundred-gallon containers (per container) …..$9.25

     Commercial, schools, other using four-yard dumpster (per dumpster) …..$21.39

     Commercial, schools, others using six-yard dumpster (per dumpster) …. $32.13

and

(12) For dumpsters, the rates are as follows: …..

     a. Four-yard, once a week, per month …..$245.99

     b. Four-yard, additional pick-up, per week, per month …..$245.99

     c. Extra one-time pick-up, each …..$59.36

     d. Six-yard, once a week, per month …..$361.32

     e. Six-yard, additional pick-up, per week, per month …..$361.32

     f. Extra one-time pick-up, each …..$84.82

Section 11-22. Billing.

When the water service is discontinued at the request of the owner the charge shall be thirteen dollars and forty one cents ($ 13.41) per month for each living unit or business. The garbage and trash collection and disposal standby charge, as set forth herein, shall be billed and become payable on the same dates as regular water service billings. If the garbage and trash collection and disposal service charge becomes delinquent, water service shall not be restored until said delinquent charges are paid in full.

Section 11-23. Special Pick-up.

a) Any accumulation of trash that cannot be placed in three (3) thirty-two gallon containers twice a week, or equivalent, in accordance with this article, shall be picked up by the city, with or without notification by the owner or occupant of each living unit. An additional fee shall be charged according to the size of the load, which shall be billed as an additional charge on the utility bill. A single pick-up item shall be  twenty six dollars ($26.00) and a white goods pick-up shall be fifty two dollars ($ 52.00). All white goods doors shall be removed before being set out for collection. Other larger loads, including yard waste exceeding six (6) feet by three (3) feet by three ( 3) feet (two (2) cubic yards) shall be based on the size and type of equipment required to load and haul the trash. Vehicle tires shall be twenty six dollars ($ 26.00) per tire; car batteries shall be fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($ 14.50) per battery. Twenty pound bottled gas cylinders shall be  twenty six dollars ($ 26.00) and shall not be picked up unless they are empty. No Trash shall be allowed to accumulate for a period of longer than seventy-two (72) hours.