[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of River
Vale as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-25-1993 by Ord. No. 0-7-93
(Ch. 68 of the 1967 Code)]
The following words, for the purposes of this section, shall have the
following meanings:
The scheduled pickup and removal of solid waste from residential,
commercial or institutional premises located within the boundaries of the
Township, at least once a week.
Any property owner, tenant or occupant of any single-family residential
dwelling or multiple dwelling, or the owner of any commercial or institutional
building or structure located within the boundaries of the Township, who generates
solid waste at those premises.
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials resulting from industrial,
commercial and agricultural operations, and from domestic and community activities,
and shall include all other waste materials, including liquids, except for
solid animal and vegetable wastes collected by swine producers licensed by
the State Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes
to swine on their own farms.
The activity related to pickup and transportation of solid waste
from its source or location to a solid waste facility or other destination.
A receptacle, container or bag suitable for the depositing of solid
waste.
The plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired,
constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by any
person pursuant to the provisions of any statute, including transfer stations,
incinerators, resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfill facilities or
other plants for the disposal of solid waste, and all vehicles, equipment
and other real and personal property and rights therein and appurtenances
necessary or useful and convenient for the collection or disposal of solid
waste in a sanitary manner.
In the case of single-family residential housing, multifamily residential
housing, commercial and institutional buildings and structures located within
the Township, each responsible solid waste generator, if he or she has not
already done so, shall enter into a contract for regular solid waste collection
service with any person lawfully providing private solid waste collection
services within the Township.
In addition to the foregoing, it shall be the responsibility of the
owner of a multiple dwelling to provide a sufficient number of appropriate
solid waste containers for the deposit of nonrecyclable waste materials to
be disposed of as solid waste.
The requirements of this article shall not apply to solid waste generators
who transport the solid waste which is generated at his or her residential
premises directly to the solid waste facility utilized by the Township for
disposal. A solid waste generator who is transporting the solid waste which
is generated at his or her residential premises directly to the solid waste
facility utilized by the Township for disposal shall furnish proof that the
responsible solid waste generator is transporting the solid waste which is
generated at his or her residential premises directly to the solid waste facility
utilized by the Township for disposal to the Township Clerk at least once
every 12 months. In order to fulfill the requirements of this section, the
responsible solid waste generator may include the proof of service with the
municipal tax payment mailed to the Township Tax Collector.
[Adopted 4-11-2005 by Ord. No. 111-2005]
The purpose of this article is to establish a yard waste collection
and disposal program in the Township of River Vale so as to protect public
health, safety and welfare and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
For the purpose of this article, the following terms, phrases, words
and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use
in the text of this article clearly demonstrates a different meaning. 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.
The placement of yard waste in a trash can, bucket, bag or other
vessel such as to prevent the yard waste from spilling or blowing out into
the street and coming into contact with stormwater.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association
or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive or other
way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway, and includes
the land between the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may
comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, parking areas and
other areas within the street lines.
Leaves and grass clippings.
A.
Sweeping, raking, blowing or otherwise placing yard waste
that is not containerized at the curb or along the street is only allowed
during the seven days prior to a scheduled and announced collection, and shall
not be placed closer than 10 feet from any storm drain inlet.
B.
Placement of such yard waste at the curb or along the
street at any other time or in any other manner is a violation of this article.
If such placement of yard waste occurs, the party responsible for placement
of the yard waste must remove the yard waste from the street or said party
shall be deemed in violation of this article.
The Police Department and Division of Building and Code Enforcement
of the Township of River Vale shall enforce this article.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this
article shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000.
