CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES BY ACTIVITY 1-Residential Waste: All users of this service maintain an application of their weighting equal for all. And given the low amount of waste generated by religious temples, the weighting factor for this category will be 1, likewise for unoccupied premises, being equivalent to the Residential category.
2-Mixed Collection Service: Fee applied to every residential unit, at whose location there exists a patent (license) and a commercial activity is carried out within the same dwelling; said fee aims to support users who are in an economic situation of poverty; for its approval, a prior municipal inspection must be carried out. The activities allowed in this category are: small grocery store (pulpería), bazaar, florist, beauty salons, tailoring, catering, and others that by means of a technical study are approved by the Tax Administration.
3- Commercial Waste Collection Service: Every commercial unit that is identified as being licensed by the Municipality, is subdivided into five categories:
3.1 -Commercial 1: Activities composing Category 1: Repairs of: Tires, Shoes, Appliances, Butcher Shops, Tailoring, Internet Café, Gym, Funeral Homes, Ice Factory, Private Clinics, and Professional Services Offices with one or two Professionals, Car Wash, Collection Centers, Packaging Services, Tattoos and Piercing, Catering, Premises (Yard where machinery, buses are kept, and which also has a company workshop), Nurseries, Sale of: Crafts and Lottery, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service.
3.2-Commercial 2: Activities composing Category 2:
Sale of: Furniture, Workshops (all types of mechanics for Cars and Motorcycles), Bicycle Repair, Carpentry, Mini-supermarket outside District 01, Private Training Center, Bars, Hardware Stores, Bakeries, and Stores with a maximum of 2 employees, Grocery Stores and Small Grocery Stores (Abastecedores y Pulperías), Bazaar and Bookstore, Photographic Studios, Daycare Centers, Pharmacies, Optical Shops, Cycles, Beauty Salons, Game Rooms, Sale of: (Motorcycles, Bicycles, Automobiles, Accessories, Spare Parts of all types), Diners (Sodas), Lumber Yards, Ice Cream Parlors and Smoothie Shops, Buying and Selling, Sale of Agricultural Products and Animals, Sale of Ceramics or Paints, Cleaning Products, Agricultural Machinery, Gas, Sale and Repair of Air Conditioning, Television and Cable, Macrobiotic Stores, Private Clinics and Professional Services Offices with 3 or more Professionals, Watchmaking and Jewelry, Synthetic Field, Greengrocery and Fruit Shop, Warehouses, Sale of: Cell Phones, Computers, Medical Equipment, Technology, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service.
3.3-Commercial 3: Activities composing Category 3: Cabins and Baches (roadside food stands), Bazaars and Stores with 3 or more employees, Mini-supermarkets in District 01, Precast Concrete, Agro-industry, Restaurants with two employees, Veterinary, Bus Terminal, Sale of Furniture, Tourist Center, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service.
3.4-Commercial 4: Activities composing Category 4: Restaurants and Hardware Stores with a maximum of 3 employees, Appliance Store, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service.
3.5-Commercial 5: Bakeries and Hardware Stores with more than 3 employees, Workshop Center with sale of spare parts, Supermarkets, Gas Stations, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service.
The Municipality provides other services, such as:
4.-Industrial Collection Service: refers to the activity where raw materials are transformed in factories into mass final productions, and packers, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service.
5.-Institutional Collection Service 1: Included are public government offices, Public and Private Educational Centers of the first and second cycle, Health Centers, among them: G.A.R, I.M.A.S, M.E.P, MINAE, Red Cross, Fire Department, National Banking system, A y A, I.C.E, ARADIKES, and others, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service, and others that through a technical study are approved by the Tax Administration.
6.-Institutional Collection Service 2: Included are large government Institutions, among them: the C.C.S.S, Nursing Homes, and any other Institution of the same nature and similar conditions, that are located within the coverage area of the collection service, and others that through a technical study are approved by the Tax Administration.
The Municipality may, at the time it deems necessary and convenient, carry out an update on the weighing of the generation of solid waste in the area it deems convenient for the updating of the Categories.
(Thus amended in session No. 29 of November 18, 2024)