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Amish set to be charged for garbage pickup in Pontotoc County
by Pontotoc Progress
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PONTOTOC – After a review of the law and policy for garbage pickup, the county’s board of supervisors will begin billing Amish residents for trash service.

The board ordered all addresses of Amish residents to be procured and to have notices sent out immediately.

Phil Tutor, board attorney, said supervisors are bound by law to bill everyone in the county.

State law 19-5-17 gives them the authority to enforce it by saying that anyone who generates garbage should utilize the garbage collection and disposal system.

The only people exempt from this rule are those who operate a Department of Environmental Quality-approved landfill, and the only one approved in Pontotoc County is the Three Rivers Solid Waste facility.

This law also gives the county the power to sue for and recover the unpaid fees and all administrative and legal costs associated with collection.
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donnatn40
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March 19, 2010
I can understand mandatory auto insurance, FOR SURE, and mandatory health care insurance--which should be...but I guess I assumed that some people still burn their garbage...I mean if they set it out by the road, then yes, charge them...but there are days when I do not have garbage by the road to be picked up and I am still charged for it, so yea, I understand it.
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shasar
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March 19, 2010
Wow. I had no idea that paying a monthly garbage fee was a mandatory family expense. I had assumed that my garbage bill was for the convenience of having my garbage picked up. I had also assumed that I didn't "have" to have my garbage picked up. That is, if I had any garbage to get picked up.

Mandatory garbage fee, mandatory auto insurance and now, more than likely, mandatory health care insurance.

Besides all the mandatory taxes, is there any of the money I earn that isn't "mandatoried" to all except me?

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