[Adopted 7-12-1951 by Ord. No. 492, approved 7-20-1951]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Ashes from coal or other fuel. The term includes such floor
sweepings as may accumulate in connection with the ordinary conduct
of dwellings and buildings, except buildings using steam boilers for
power, but not such as may accumulate as the result of building operations.
All animal and vegetable waste, including offal, carcasses,
fat, bone, swill and vegetable and animal refuse resulting from the
storage, handling, preparation and consumption of food. It shall not
contain glass, china, metal, disinfectants, sprays, antiseptics or
other foreign matters injurious to hogs.
All rubbish from places of residence and a reasonable amount
from store buildings. The term includes bottles, paper, rags, mattresses,
worn-out furniture, old clothes, old shoes, leather, carpets, broken
glass, crockery, tin cans, metals, rubber, wallpaper, discarded Christmas
trees and greens, small branches from shrubs, vines, cut grass and
leaves, but does not include any material whatever in the nature of
earth, sand, lumber, brick, stone, plaster or other substance that
may accumulate as the result of building operations, nor will it include
dead animals or night soil.
A.
The occupants of dwellings, apartments, tenements
and other houses and the proprietors of commission houses, stores,
stands, markets, boardinghouses, hotels, restaurants and other places
where ashes, rubbish and garbage are produced shall provide and maintain
containers as required hereinafter for all ashes, rubbish or garbage
accumulated on the premises thereof.
B.
Containers for ashes, rubbish and garbage shall not
exceed 50 pounds each in weight when full, and a sufficient number
of containers shall be provided so that the aggregate capacity shall
be sufficient for normal needs between the intervals of collection
given hereinafter.
C.
Separate containers shall be provided for garbage,
and said garbage containers shall be made of nonabsorbent material,
be watertight and flytight and be provided with handles and closely
fitting covers made of nonabsorbent material. The containers shall
be kept in repair so as to be at all times watertight, and said containers
shall be kept covered.
D.
Ashes and rubbish shall be kept in tight boxes, baskets
or cans.
E.
Newspapers and wastepaper shall be tied tightly in
bundles, each bundle not to exceed 50 pounds in weight.
F.
Hedge and grass clippings, bushes, tree limbs, etc.,
shall be placed in containers or tied in bundles not to exceed three
feet in length, one foot in depth and 50 pounds in weight.
G.
On the days when collection is to be made, the occupant
or proprietor of the place where the ashes, rubbish and garbage have
accumulated shall place the proper container along the curbline in
front of the premises at a place where it is readily accessible to
collectors.
H.
No ashes, rubbish or garbage shall be allowed to accumulate
on the ground or be deposited on highways, vacant lots or commons,
nor shall any be thrown into any stream or other body of water.
A.
Ashes, rubbish and garbage shall be collected on such
days, at such times and in such localities as shall be decided by
Borough Council in its sole discretion, and proper notice of such
collection dates, times and places shall be given to the residents
of the Borough.
B.
Containers, boxes, baskets, cans and bundles, as aforementioned,
shall be placed along the curb for collection not before 6:00 p.m.
on the day prior to collection and removed not later than 9:00 a.m.
on the day following collection.
C.
It is hereby made the duty of each owner, occupant,
householder or tenant to clean up and remove such of the contents
of the said containers, cans, boxes, baskets or bundles as shall have
been spilled or scattered therefrom by any means or cause other than
the negligence of the collectors.
It shall be the duty of the Board of Health
and the Police Department to assist Council in enforcing the terms
of this article in securing compliance with the requirements hereof.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall, upon conviction thereof before a District Justice,
be subject to the following penalties:
