[Adopted 10-16-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-10]
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Hellam Township Waste Transportation Ordinance."
A. 
Hellam Township recognizes that Windsor and Lower Windsor Townships, both adjoining municipalities, are the joint "host municipalities" of a sanitary landfill. Both Windsor and Lower Windsor Townships have enacted ordinances regulating the routing of transportation of municipal waste, residual waste, and source-separated recyclable materials by certain vehicles and have limited the transportation to the use of certain roads within those townships, pursuant to the authority granted under 53 P.S. § 4000.304(b)(2).
B. 
Hellam Township also has the authority, pursuant to 53 P.S. § 4000.304(b)(1), to regulate the routes within Hellam Township that waste haulers may use, provided that Hellam's regulations are completely consistent with those enacted by the "host municipalities" set forth above.
C. 
The purpose of this article is to promote public good, health, safety and welfare of the residents of Hellam Township.
A. 
The following words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings except where the context or language clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
PERSON
Any individual, firm, association, partnership, or other legal entity or corporation recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties. Whenever used in any clause prescribing a penalty, the term "person" as applied to associations or partnerships shall include members or partners thereof and as applied to corporations, shall include officers thereof.
VEHICLE
Any device in, upon, or by which any municipal waste or source-separated recyclable materials is transported or drawn, but does not include automobiles or pickup trucks of less than 10,000 pounds allowable gross weight.
B. 
In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter gender.
C. 
In this article, any other undefined terms shall be given the same definition and meaning as those found in the Waste Planning and Recycling Act (53 P.S. § 4000.300 et seq.), as amended, incorporated by reference.
A. 
No person shall use or operate a vehicle destined for or returning from a landfill or other solid waste facility to transport municipal waste or source-separated recyclable materials in or through Hellam Township, except as follows:
(1) 
Such waste shall be enclosed, covered, or otherwise managed at all times during such transportation, including any time the such vehicle is parked, to prevent roadside littering, dust, leakage, attraction, or harboring of vectors, and the creation of other nuisances.
(2) 
Such vehicle is operated only on the following roads:
(a) 
U.S. Route 30, also known as the Route 30 Bypass.
(b) 
Cool Springs Road, south of the U.S. Route 30 interchange.
(c) 
Cool Creek Road.
(d) 
Mt. Pisgah Road.
B. 
This section shall not apply to authorized vehicles engaged in the lawful pickup and transportation of waste generated in Hellam Township or Hallam Borough.
A. 
Any person who shall violate this article shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than $300 and not more than $600.
B. 
All offenders convicted of violating this article shall also pay the costs of prosecution, and in default of said payment of fines and costs, shall undergo imprisonment for a period not to exceed 30 days, or the period provided by law for summary offenses, whichever is less.