[Amended 10-25-2011 ATM, Art. 7]
No person shall bring any trash, rubbish, refuse, discarded materials, including tires, tree roots, bottles, cans, crates and waste or materials from demolished buildings or any other material whatsoever from without the Town limits into the Town of Northbridge for the purpose of depositing it in any area used or set aside as a public or private dump. This provision shall not apply to material delivered to a properly permitted regional recycling facility.
A. 
No person shall deposit in any dump, public or private, any animal carcasses or other material which shall become a breeding place for rodents, flies or vermin. Likewise, no person shall deposit in any dump, public or private, any material which, by odor, dust, putrefaction or otherwise, shall be deemed to be obnoxious material by the Board of Health, unless otherwise authorized to do so by the Board of Health.
B. 
To the extent permitted by law, no new building or facility or part thereof shall be constructed or used, and no premises shall be used, and no building or facility or part thereof shall be altered, enlarged, expanded, reconstructed or used for the purpose of processing, storing, transferring, or staging, as principal uses, of infectious waste or physically dangerous medical or biological waste, as defined by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Regulation 310 CMR 16.00, 310 CMR 19.00 and the Department of Public Health, State Sanitary Code 105 CMR 480.000.
[Added 1-21-2003 STM, Art. 13]
C. 
No person shall deposit within the Town of Northbridge any hazardous wastes or contaminated soils taken from without the Town limits, including, but not limited to, those wastes or contaminated soils as defined in DEP Policy No. COMM-97-001 (Reuse and Disposal of Contaminated Soil at Massachusetts Landfills), including construction and demolition fines and/or residuals, and grading and shaping materials, as well as sediments, including dredged sediments, which are subject to compliance requirements of DEP Interim Policy No. COMM-94-007 (Interim Policy for Sampling, Analysis, Handling and Tracking Requirements for Dredged Sediment Reused or Disposed at Massachusetts Permitted Landfills).
[Added 10-28-2014 ATM, Art. 12]
No person shall use a dumping area for the disposal of rubbish, trash or refuse, including discarded materials as set forth in § 9-401, unless the area is approved as a dumping site pursuant to provisions of MGL c. 111, § 150A.
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Editor's Note: Former § 9-404, Deposit of refuse by nonresidents, was repealed 10-24-2006 ATM, Art. 23.
Words or phrases used in the foregoing sections shall be understood to carry the meanings set forth in any legal precedents defining the same and shall be subject to discretionary standards of interpretation.
The disposal of solid waste or hazardous waste by means of incineration, resource recovery or any other burning method shall be prohibited within the Town of Northbridge.
A. 
No person shall remove or transfer garbage, offal or other offensive substances without first obtaining a permit from the Board of Health in accordance with MGL c. 111, § 31A.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Subsections B and C, which immediately followed and required transportation of garbage to the Wheelabrator Millbury Facility and the reimbursement of charges incurred in connection with disposal at said facility, were repealed 10-24-2006 ATM, Art. 23.