For the purposes of this chapter, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section:
The residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other
combustible materials for the purposes of heating and cooking. It
shall not include the cinders produced in steam-generating plants.
The waste material resulting from the construction or demolition
of buildings or roads, tree trunks and limbs and other similar material.
A person licensed to transport refuse for others as provided
in this chapter.
A person engaged in the business of construction, repair
or demolition of buildings under a building permit issued by the Township.
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of foods. It shall not include
food-processing wastes from canneries, packing plants or similar industries
nor large quantities of condemned food products.
The Department of Public Health of the Township or any duly
authorized representative of the Department of Public Health.
The Police Department of the Township or any duly authorized
representative of the Police Department.
Garbage, ashes, rubbish and building rubble as herein defined.
All waste materials not included in "garbage" and "ashes,"
except large dead animals, large machinery or vehicles or such other
waste materials as are not commonly produced in homes, stores and
institutions.
The collection and removal of garbage, ashes
and rubbish shall be done in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter, shall be subject to the general supervision of the Department
of Public Health and Police Department and shall be subject to such
additional rules and regulations as those Departments may from time
to time prescribe not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 6-13-1968 by Ord. No. 409]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep
in or about any dwelling or upon any land or other premises within
the Township any garbage or any refuse of any kind which is obnoxious
or offensive by reason of dust or odor or which attracts insects and
vermin, except in covered receptacles. The cover shall be tight and
flyproof. No receptacles in which refuse is contained shall, when
filled, exceed 50 pounds in weight.
It shall be unlawful for any person to retain,
accumulate or to permit the accumulation of any refuse in excess of
one week. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to permit the
retention of any refuse which is or becomes obnoxious or offensive
by reason of dust or odor or which attracts insects and vermin.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit
the removal from premises owned or occupied by him of any refuse produced
on such premises except in accordance with the preceding section or
by a refuse collector duly licensed by the Township as hereinafter
set forth.
Receptacles for garbage shall be of a type designed
by the manufacturer sufficiently strong for the purpose and may be
pails or cans with a capacity of not less than 2 1/2 nor more
than 20 gallons. They shall be watertight and shall have close-fitting
covers, and said receptacles shall be kept covered, except when opened
for the filling or emptying of material.
Receptacles for ashes shall be boxes, cans or
small barrels that can be handled by one man, of a size not to hold
more than 100 pounds of coal ashes, and shall be sufficiently tight
to prevent leakage of ashes through the container. Receptacles for
rubbish, other than paper, shall be strong boxes, baskets or barrels
in which it is conveniently possible to place such rubbish.
[Amended 1-9-2001 by Ord. No. 3189]
All receptacles for garbage, ashes or rubbish
and all bundles of wastepaper shall be set by the occupant on the
sidewalk or street line in front of the premises at the curb, or,
if a private arrangement is made between the occupant and the collector,
they may be set at the rear or side of the building, or the collector
may remove them from within the premises in accordance with such private
arrangements between the occupant and the collector. The garbage receptacles
must be placed at curbside the evening preceding scheduled trash pickup.
The garbage receptacles shall be removed no later than the evening
following the trash pickup.
The occupant shall keep all receptacles clean
and in a proper condition for safe handling. In buildings in which
two or more families reside, each family shall make its own receptacles
with the initials of the respective name, so as to render the receptacles
readily identifiable. Immediately after receptacles are properly emptied,
the collector shall return them to the point from which he took them.
[Amended 11-14-2000 by Ord. No. 3165]
A.
No person shall dump, throw, discard or abandon, or
cause the same to be done, any garbage, rubbish, junk or any other
refuse material on any lands or premises in the Township, except in
a sanitary landfill.
B.
The accumulation or burying of refuse upon any premises
within the Township, except in a sanitary landfill of the Township,
is declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited.
C.
Should the violation be of such a nature as to be
evidenced or deemed to constitute a hazard to public health or safety,
the municipality may elect to contract for the necessary removal of
garbage, rubbish, junk or refuse material. The cost of investigating,
administering and removing of same shall be assessed against the property
and shall become a lien and a tax on said property and be added to
and be a part of the taxes to be levied and assessed thereof and enforced
and collected with interest in the same manner as other taxes. The
Township may elect to foreclose on the properties of repeat violators
and the proceeds used to maintain said property.
All free liquids shall be drained from refuse
before it is placed in receptacles for collection. Garbage shall be
wrapped in paper. All cans and bottles which have contained food shall
be thoroughly rinsed and drained before being deposited for collection.
Tree trimmings, hedge clippings, grass clippings
and similar material shall be cut to a length not to exceed four feet
and shall be disposed of in neat tied bundles or in disposable containers,
including but not limited to bags and boxes.
The transporting of refuse into the Township
from without the boundaries of the Township for the purpose of accumulating,
burying, burning or destroying such refuse within the Township or
to dump at the landfill is prohibited.
[Amended 11-14-2000 by Ord. No. 3165]
It is the intent of this chapter to adopt as
a portion of this chapter Subchapter 1 and Subchapter 3 of the Solid
Waste Code of New Jersey (1996). Such code is made a part hereof without
the inclusion of the text thereof herein. Should there be any conflict
between this chapter and the Solid Waste Code as adopted here, the
provisions of this chapter shall rule.
[Amended 11-9-2004 by Ord. No. 3501]
A.
No person shall throw, cast, deposit, drop, scatter
or leave or cause to be thrown, cast, laid, deposited, scattered or
left in or upon any street, alley, sidewalks, parking or other public
place in the Township or upon any private property not owned by such
person any coal, ash, dirt, trash, garbage, gravel, sand, sawdust,
shavings, hay, straw, leaves, offal, vegetable matter of any kind,
deal animals or putrescible matter of any kind or building materials
of any kind.
B.
This section shall not be deemed to apply to the placing
of any material upon a public place or road, etc., for the purpose
of achieving traction in weather conditions of snow and ice.
C.
Distribution of commercial advertising and unsolicited
newspapers. No person shall throw, cast, deposit, drop, scatter or
leave or cause to be thrown, cast, laid, deposited, scattered or left
any commercial advertising, unsolicited newspaper or advertising tabloids:
(1)
In or upon any private premises which are temporarily
or continuously uninhabited or vacant;
(2)
In or upon any vehicle;
(3)
In or upon the private premises, which are inhabited,
except by handling or transmitting same directly to the owner, occupant,
or other person then present except as hereinafter, provided that
a person, unless requested by anyone upon the premises not to do so,
may place or deposit any such commercial advertising, unsolicited
newspaper, or advertising tabloid in or upon inhabited premises if
the premises are not posted as provided in this section and the commercial
advertising, unsolicited newspaper or advertising tabloid is placed
or deposited as to secure prevention from being blown or drifted about
the premises of sidewalks, streets or other public places. Mailboxes
may not be used when prohibited by federal postal rules or regulations.
This provision of this section shall not apply to the distribution
of mail by the United States nor to newspapers.
D.
Distribution of commercial matter, unsolicited newspapers
or advertising tabloids where refused or sign posted. No person shall
throw, deposit, distribute or cause to be thrown, deposited and distributed
any commercial advertising, unsolicited newspapers or advertising
tabloid in or upon any premises if requested by anyone in or upon
such premises not to do so or if there is placed on such premises
in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof a sign bearing
the words: "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement"
or any similar notice indicating that the occupants of the premises
do not desire to have their right of privacy disturbed or to have
any such matter left upon the premises.
