[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights 8-20-1928 by Section 29 of Ord. No. 418; amended in its entirety 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1538. Subsequent
amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words used in
the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the
singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always
mandatory and not merely directory.
B.
AIRCRAFT
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE
BOROUGH
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
GARBAGE
LITTER
NEWSPAPER
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL
PARK
PERSON
PRIVATE PREMISES
PUBLIC PLACE
REFUSE
RUBBISH
VEHICLE
Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the
following terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall have the
meanings given herein:
Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or
designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The word "aircraft"
shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
A litter storage and collection receptacle, as authorized
by the Borough.
The Borough of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or
otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature:
Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product,
commodity or thing.
Which directs attention to any business or mercantile
or commercial establishment or other activity for the purpose of either,
directly or indirectly, promoting the interest thereof by sales.
Which directs attention to or advertises any
meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind for
which an admission fee is charged for the purpose of private gain
or profit, but the terms of this subsection shall not apply where
an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for the purpose
of defraying the expenses incident to such meeting, theatrical performance,
exhibition or event of any kind when either of the same is held, given
or takes place in connection with the dissemination of information
which is not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good
morals, public peace, safety and good order, provided that nothing
contained in the subsection shall be deemed to authorize the holding,
giving or taking place of any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition
or event of any kind without a license where such license is or may
be required by any law or under Borough ordinance.
Which, while containing reading matter other
than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement
and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the
private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or
distributor.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
waste material which, if thrown or deposited, as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to the public health, safety and welfare.
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general
law, any newspaper duly entered with the United States Postal Service
in accordance with federal statute or regulations and any newspaper
filed and recorded with a recording officer as provided by general
law and, in addition thereto, any periodical or current magazine regularly
published, with not fewer than four issues per year, and sold to the
public.
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or
any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any
matter or literature not included in the aforesaid definitions of
"commercial handbill" and "newspaper."
A playground, recreation center or any other public area
in the Borough owned or used by the Borough and devoted to active
or passive recreation.
Any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure designed
to be used wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether
inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, including
any yard, grounds, walks, driveway, park, steps, vestibule or mailbox
belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other
structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, except body
waste, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals,
abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible waste, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard,
tin cans, grass, leaves, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery
and similar materials.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or
upon any street, sidewalk or public place within the Borough except
in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles
or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in such a manner
as to prevent it from being carried or deposited by the elements upon
any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon public property.
[Amended 4-27-1999 by Ord. No. 1853]
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Borough the accumulation of litter from a building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Borough any leaf, grass or other refuse resulting from the maintenance of any landscaping except such compostable leaf and grass refuse which may be deposited in the roadway in front of the premises from which it is collected and immediately adjacent to the curb in accordance with and under the same limitations as provided in § 152-22 and any regulations promulgated thereunder for the seasonal collection of such compostable leaf and grass refuse. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business
shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public
place within the Borough the accumulation of litter from any building
or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons
owning or occupying places of business within the Borough shall keep
the sidewalk in front of their business premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a
vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter upon any street or other public
place within the Borough or upon private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other
vehicle within the Borough unless such vehicle is so constructed or
loaded as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown
or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place nor shall
any person drive or move any vehicle or truck within the Borough,
the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any street,
alley or other public place mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or
foreign accumulation of any kind.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any
park within the Borough, except in public receptacles and in such
a manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited
by the elements upon any part of the park or upon any street or other
public place. Where public receptacles are not provided, all such
litter shall be carried away from the park by the person responsible
for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere, as provided herein.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any
pond, stream or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within
the Borough.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any
storm or sanitary sewer, including rights-of-way.
A.
Distributing handbills in public places. No person
shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in
or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the Borough
nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any commercial
handbill in any public place; provided, however, that it shall not
be unlawful on any sidewalk, street or other public place within the
Borough for any person to hand out or distribute, without charge to
the receiver thereof, any noncommercial handbill to any person willing
to accept it.
B.
Placing handbills in or upon vehicles. No person shall
throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon
any vehicle; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in any
public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge
to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant
of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
C.
Depositing handbills on vacant premises. No person
shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in
or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously
uninhabited or vacant.
D.
Distributing handbills where property posted. No person
shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial
handbill upon any premises if requested by anyone thereon not to do
so or if there is placed on said premises, in a conspicuous position
near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words "No Trespassing,"
"No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisements" or any similar notice
indicating, in any manner, that the occupants of said premises do
not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed
or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
E.
Distributing handbills at private premises.
(1)
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited
except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the
owner, occupant or other person then present in or upon such private
premises; provided, however, that in case of inhabited private premises
which are not posted as provided in this section, such person, unless
requested by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may place or
deposit any such handbill in or upon such inhabited private premises
if such handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent
such handbill from being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks,
streets or other public places and except that mailboxes may not be
so used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations.
(2)
Exception for mail and newspapers. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the
United States nor to newspapers, as defined herein, except that newspapers
shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent
their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street,
sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop
or deposit within the Borough any litter, handbill or any other object.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any
occupied private property within the Borough, whether owned by such
person or not, except that the owner or person in control of private
property may maintain authorized private receptacles for collection
in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried
or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public
place or upon any private property.
The owner or person in control of any private
property shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter;
provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the storage
of litter in authorized private receptacles for collection.
[Added 4-13-1999 by Ord. No. 1849]
A.
No person shall surrender or abandon a shopping cart
on any private or public premises within the Borough of Hasbrouck
Heights except the premises upon which is located the commercial enterprise
from which that cart was taken.
B.
Any shopping cart abandoned or surrendered in violation of the prohibition contained in Subsection A hereof may be collected by the Department of Public Works and stored by it at such premises as the Superintendent may, in his sole discretion, deem appropriate, without any responsibility of or liability upon this Borough in respect to the collection and storage thereof. Any shopping cart so collected and stored may be retrieved by the owner thereof upon presentation of proof of ownership in such form as the Superintendent may reasonably require, at such place and during such hours as he or she may reasonably designate and upon the payment to the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights of a collection fee in the amount as set forth in Chapter 133, Fees, per cart so collected plus a storage fee in the amount as set forth in Chapter 133, Fees, per day per cart so stored; thereupon, the owner of such cart or carts shall immediately remove the same from the said storage place at its sole cost and expense.
[Amended 4-11-2000 by Ord. No. 1893]
