[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Millville 2-11-2020 by Ord. No. 20-06. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit waste and litter
from being discarded improperly within the incorporated limits of
the Town of Millville. This behavior endangers the public health and
negatively impacts the cleanliness, ornament, and free utilization
and enjoyment of the community.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any waste accumulation of lawn grass, tree trimmings, shrubbery,
or dry leaf rakings that is free of dirt, rocks, noncompostable trash
and bulky waste.
Any device, equipment, container, close fitting tarpaulin,
chain, rope, wire, or line used on vehicles to prevent any part of
a vehicle load to shift, blow, leak, fall, or escape in any manner
from the vehicle.
Any item, such as wrecked or junked property, which has been
left abandoned or unprotected from the elements, including but not
limited to, wrecked, or partially dismantled motor vehicles, trailers,
boats, machinery, refrigerators, washing machines, plumbing fixtures
and other articles. Wrecked or partially dismantled motor vehicles
shall include any vehicle which does not have lawfully affixed thereto
both a license plate and a current motor vehicle safety inspection
certificate and the condition of which is wrecked, dismantled, partially
dismantled, inoperable, abandoned or discarded and is not capable
of being legally driven upon the public streets within the Town of
Millville.
Includes waste resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking and consumption of food; waste from the handling, storage
and sale of produce.
Any paper or papers, poster, circular, coupon or pamphlet,
regardless of size, to be circulated for the purpose of making some
public or private announcement except newspapers circulated to bona
fide subscribers.
Any trash, including that which is unsightly, excessive in
accumulation, or both, including but not limited to paper, bottles,
cans, glass, crockery, plastic, rubber, waste building materials,
disposable packages and containers, white goods, water heaters, small
automobile parts, tires, furniture, noncompostable trash, or any other
matter which tends to create a hazard to public health, safety and
welfare.
Includes corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships,
societies, and joint-stock companies, as well as individuals.
Includes all dwellings, houses, buildings, or other structures
designed or used for private, commercial, or residential purposes
and shall include any yard, grounds, acreage, vacant lots, walks,
driveways, porches, steps, parking areas, vestibules, or mailboxes
belonging to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
Includes all streets, public rights of way, easements, medians,
sidewalks, boulevards, highways, alleys, or other public parks, squares,
spaces, grounds, and buildings.
Includes combustible trash, including but not limited to
paper, cartons, boxes, barrels, wood, excelsior, tree branches, and
wood trimmings; and includes noncombustible trash, including but not
limited to metals, tin cans, dirt, small quantities of rock and small
pieces of concrete, glass, crockery and other mineral waste; and street
rubbish, including but not limited to street sweepings, dirt, leaves,
catch-basin dirt and contents of litter receptacles.
Includes the worthless or the useless portion of something,
the leavings, the trash, the garbage, as well as that which has been
thrown aside or left as worthless or useless.
A.
Littering prohibited. No person shall strew, cast, throw, drop, discard, dump, or deposit, or permit the strewing, casting, throwing, dropping, discarding, dumping, or depositing, of any litter, rubbish, refuse, or trash on any public property or private property, including construction sites, within the limits of the Town of Millville, except when placed in a container in accordance with Chapter 111, Property Maintenance.
B.
Requirements for loads on vehicles.
(1)
No person shall drive, move, park, maintain, or in any other way
operate any vehicle carrying a load within the Town of Millville unless
said vehicle is loaded so as to prevent any of its load from dropping,
shifting, leaking, blowing or otherwise escaping therefrom. In the
event that the vehicle is hauling material that includes garbage,
rubbish, refuse, trash, derelict property, or any other such materials,
said vehicle must have a cover secured over all such materials.
(2)
Any owner, driver or other person in direct control of any vehicle
from which any materials or objects have fallen, blown, leaked, or
otherwise escaped shall immediately cause said materials or objects
to be cleaned up at the person's expense.
C.
Requirements for handbills.
(1)
No person shall throw, scatter, deposit, distribute, or cause to
be thrown, scattered, deposited, distributed, any handbill upon any
public property or private property within the Town of Millville;
except that handbills may be distributed to any private residence,
office, or retail establishments so long as the handbill is handed
in at the door or securely fastened to reasonably prevent it from
being blown or scattered about.
(2)
No person shall place or deposit any handbill or advertising on any
vehicle.
D.
Prima facie evidence.
(1)
The strewing, casting, throwing, dropping, discarding, dumping, or
depositing of litter rubbish, refuse, or trash from a motor vehicle,
boat, airplane, or other conveyance in violation of this chapter is
prima facie evidence that the operator of the conveyance violated
this chapter.
