As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
COMMERCIAL USE
An activity involving the sale of goods or services carried
out for profit.
COMMINGLED
A combining of nonputrescible source-separated recyclable
materials for the purpose of recycling.
DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials designated within the Warren County District
Solid Waste Management Plan to be source-separated for the purpose
of recycling. These materials include: container glass (clean, green,
and brown), aluminum cans, bimetal cans, plastic beverage bottles
PETE and HDPE resins, HDPE plastic milk and water jugs, newspapers,
corrugated cardboard, high-grade paper, household batteries, magazines,
junk mail, textiles, tires, waste motor oil, computers, white goods,
asphalt, concrete paving and brick, automotive batteries (lead acid),
laser and inkjet cartridges, leaves and yard waste, scrap metals,
fluorescent lighting tubes, oil-based paint, alkyd, varnish, polyurethane,
stain, and sealers.
ELECTRONIC WASTE
A computer central processing unit and associated hardware
including keyboards, modems, printers scanners and fax machines; a
cathode ray tube, a cathode ray tube device, a flat-panel display
or similar video display device with a screen that is greater than
four inches measured diagonally and that contains one or more circuit
boards, including a television, and cell phones.
HOTEL
A.
All mean any building, including but not limited to any related
structure, accessory building, and land appurtenant thereto, and any
part thereof, which contains 10 or more units of dwelling space or
has sleeping facilities for 25 or more persons and is kept, used,
maintained, advertised as, or held out to be, a place where sleeping
or dwelling accommodations are available to transient or permanent
guests.
B.
This definition shall also mean and include any hotel, motor
hotel, motel, or established guesthouse which is commonly regarded
as a hotel, motor hotel, motel, or established guesthouse, as the
case may be, in the community in which it is located; provided, however,
that this definition shall not be construed to include any building
or structure defined as a multiple dwelling in this act, registered
as a multiple dwelling with the Commissioner of Community Affairs
as hereinafter provided, and occupied or intended to be occupied as
such nor shall this definition be construed to include a rooming house
or a boarding house as defined in the "Rooming and Boarding House
Act of 1979," P.L.1979, c.496 (N.J.S.A. 55:13B-1 et al.) or, except
as otherwise set forth in P.L.1987, c.270 (N.J.S.A. 55:13A-7.5, 55:13A-7.6,
55:13A-12.1, 55:13A-13.2), or any retreat lodging facility, as defined
in this section.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
Any building or structure of complex of buildings in which
three or more dwelling units are rented or leased or offered for rental
or lease for residential purposes (see N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.13a.) except
hotels, motels, or other guest houses serving transient or seasonal
guests as those terms are defined under Subsection (j) of § 3
of the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law," P.L. 1967, c. 76 (N.J.S.A.
55: 13A-1 et seq.);
MUNICIPAL RECYCLING COORDINATOR
The person or persons appointed by the municipal governing
body and who shall be authorized to enforce the provisions of this
chapter and any rules and regulations which may be promulgated hereunder.
The Recycling Coordinator shall be appointed by the governing body
for a term of one year, expiring December 31st of each year. The initial
term shall be for the remainder of the calendar year succeeding the
appointment.
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) STREAM
All solid waste generated at residential, commercial and
institutional establishments within the boundaries of the municipality
of Independence Township.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL
Those materials which would otherwise become solid waste,
and which may be collected, separated, or processed and returned to
the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.
SOURCE SEPARATION
The process by which recyclable materials are separated at
the point of generation by the generator thereof from solid waste
for the purposes of recycling.
The collection of recyclable material shall be in the manner
prescribed as follows:
A. Recyclables shall be transported by the resident or commercial establishment
to the Warren County Recycling Center, which is hereby designated
by the Township as its official recycling center, or the resident
or commercial entity may, upon arrangement with a garbage hauler to
collect such recyclables, place the same at curbside to be delivered
by such hauler to the Warren County Recycling Center or other bona
fide recycling center.
B. All recyclables placed at curbside for collection by a hauler shall
be separated and placed in containers acceptable to and conforming
with the requirements of the hauler servicing said resident, institution
or commercial establishment.
C. All recyclables placed at curbside for collection shall be deemed
the property of the Township or its authorized agent.
D. All receptacles or dumpsters shall be maintained in a clean and safe
manner.
The municipal Board of Health, the Recycling Coordinator, the
Zoning Officer, the Building Inspector, the Housing Officer, or other
code enforcement officer, the Police Department, and the Warren County
Department of Health are hereby individually and severally empowered
to enforce the provisions of this chapter. An inspection may consist
of sorting through containers and opening of solid waste bags to detect,
by sound or sight, the presence of any recyclable material.