Porta Potty Rental in Palmer Lake, CO 80133

On your own Palmer Lake property, serving your own work, a unit normally needs no permit of its own. The street and the event are where the town has written real rules.

A street placement needs a town permit, and the cap is the thing to know. Palmer Lake's rules say no person shall deposit or keep building material, debris or any other obstruction on any avenue, street, alley or public place in the town without first obtaining a permit from the town, and that the permission must state the length of time it is granted for. Then comes the limit: no permission may be given, or read, as authorizing the obstruction of more than one third of the carriage way, except in cases of urgent necessity and for short periods. On a narrow Palmer Lake lane, one third of the roadway is not much room.

There is a lighting duty at night. Anyone holding that permission must place one red light at each end of the obstruction at night. That is a condition on the customer rather than on the supplier, and it is easy to overlook.

And the enforcement clause is unusually sharp. If the permit cannot be produced when asked for, the town's rules make it the duty of the police department to arrest without warrant each and every person, whether owner, contractor or workman, who has obstructed or interfered with a highway or public place, and to bring them before the municipal court. Carry the paper on site. We have not seen a tougher version of that duty in any town we serve.

Events split into major and minor. A Palmer Lake special event permit is needed for a special event on public property. The town treats an event as major where it has one hundred or more participants, where it directly affects a street, public right-of-way or public park area for more than one hour, or where it needs a special event liquor permit. Anything else is a minor special event and may be approved administratively. That one-hour test is unusual and it catches short events that would pass elsewhere.

The event application asks for your waste plan. Palmer Lake requires a waste disposal and clean-up plan with the application, and a parking plan once you expect one hundred or more participants. Put the restroom and handwashing layout in that plan rather than adding it on the day.

The town licenses refuse hauling, and its vehicle rules are strict. Palmer Lake requires a business license from the town clerk before anyone collects or hauls refuse over the streets, alleys or other public places in the town, other than refuse accumulated at their own residence or place of business. A licensed vehicle must have a tightly enclosed body and a durable cover large enough to cover the load and tied down, must display its per-vehicle plate, and must carry the hauler's name, address and telephone number in letters not smaller than three inches on each side. The chapter does not define refuse, so whether it reaches the contents of a portable unit is a question for the town rather than something to assume.

The state rule routes the unit itself to El Paso County. Colorado's on-site wastewater rule excludes chemical toilet residuals from septage, so a Palmer Lake unit is not covered by the state septage scheme. The same regulation leaves a portable chemical toilet permit to the local public health agency's discretion, and keeps one out of a permanently occupied Palmer Lake building except during construction or an emergency. El Paso County Public Health runs that program and also licenses system cleaners, so the servicing side answers to the county here.

Your account manager will help you ask the town clerk the right question before anything is placed.