[Adopted 6-12-2006 by Ord. No. 06-16 (Ch. 121 of the 1985 Code)]
The express purpose of this article is to establish requirements
for the proper handling of yard waste and refuse in the Township of
Washington so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and
to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
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.
Items such as household appliances, fixtures and furniture
and any other material which does not constitute yard waste or that
is normally collected by contract scavengers, but excluding rocks.
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.
Grass clippings and branches, but does not include leaves.
[Amended 9-11-2006 by Ord. No. 06-27]
The owner or occupant of any property, or any employee or contractor
of such owner or occupant engaged to provide lawn care or landscaping
services, shall not sweep, rake, blow or otherwise place yard waste,
unless the yard waste is containerized, in the street. If yard waste
that is not containerized is placed in the street, the party responsible
for placement of yard waste must remove the yard waste from the street
or said party shall be deemed in violation of this article.
A.
All yard waste to be collected from residential premises in the Township
of Washington shall be drained free of water and stored in twenty-
to thirty-two-gallon disposable containers covered with a lid weighing
no more than 50 pounds when filled. No plastic bags or boxes shall
be used.
B.
Tree branches must be no more than four feet in length and tied in
bundles not to exceed 50 pounds.
C.
All doors on dryers, refrigerators, freezers and any other heavy
appliances with doors shall be removed.
D.
All yard waste and refuse in conformity with the above requirements
shall be placed behind curbside in front of residences, no earlier
than 6:00 p.m. of the date preceding the scheduled collection day
for a designated area. No yard waste or refuse shall be placed within
the roadway or upon a public sidewalk.
[Amended 4-6-2020 by Ord. No. 20-03]
Collection of yard waste and refuse from all residential premises
in the Township of Washington shall be made in accordance with a schedule
and regulations to be established by the Director of the Department
of Public Works and as may be amended or supplemented from time to
time. Such schedule and regulations and their amendments and supplements
shall be distributed to all residents at least once each year. Copies
of such schedule and regulations and amendments or supplements shall
be available in the office of the Municipal Clerk.
A.
The removal of debris and other building materials resulting from
construction of new buildings or alteration of existing buildings
shall be the responsibility of the contractor performing the work
and the individual homeowner. No such materials shall be collected
by the Department of Public Works.
[Amended 4-6-2020 by Ord. No. 20-03]
B.
Any commercial landscaper, tree surgeon, arborist, gardener or horticulturist
performing services within the Township of Washington shall be required
to remove within 24 hours all trimmings, branches, trees, stumps,
clippings and other waste materials resulting from the performance
of such services from the premises at which such services were performed.
The provisions of this article shall be enforced by the Police
Department of Township of Washington.
