[Amended 8-11-1987 by Ord. No. 87-18]
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
A. 
Dump, deposit, place or throw, or cause to permit to be dumped, deposited, placed or thrown, upon any property belonging to another person, without express permission of such owner, any barrels, boxes, cans, bottles, glasses, papers, or containers broken or otherwise susceptible of holding or containing liquids of any junk, garbage, rubbish, live or dead vegetation, grass, leaves, trees, branches, stumps, castoff building materials, soil, offal, or other offensive or unsightly matter. In case any such materials shall be deposited with such consent of the owner, the onus shall pass to such owner in accordance with §§ 99-14 and 99-15 of this Code.
B. 
Dump, deposit, place or throw, or cause or permit to be dumped, deposited, placed or thrown, upon any property, any barrels, boxes, cans, bottles, glasses, papers, or containers, broken or otherwise susceptible of holding or containing liquids of any junk, garbage, rubbish, live or dead vegetation, grass, leaves, trees, branches, stumps, castoff building materials, soil, offal, or other offensive or unsightly matter not originating or produced within the Borough of Garwood.
[Amended 9-10-1991 by Ord. No. 91-23; 12-8-2022 by Ord. No. 22-19]
It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant of any lot or land to dump, deposit, place or throw, or permit to be dumped thereon, or allow to accumulate thereon, and fail to remove within 10 days after the service of the notice hereinafter provided for in § 99-17, any barrels, boxes, cans, bottles, glasses, papers or containers, broken or otherwise susceptible of holding or containing liquids; or any obnoxious growths, filth, junk, garbage, rubbish, dead vegetation, leaves, discarded building materials, sewerage, offal, trash, debris, or other offensive or unsightly matter.
[Amended 8-26-1986 by Ord. No. 86-21; 9-10-1991 by Ord. No. 91-23; 7-14-2022 by Ord. No. 22-08; 12-8-2022 by Ord. No. 22-19]
It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee, or occupant of any lot or land to permit or maintain on such lot or land, within a distance of 200 feet of any building, sidewalk, public place or the curbline of any street, any growth of weeds, grass or brush to a height of six inches or more, or any dead or dying trees, stumps, roots or other rand vegetation, and failure to remove such items within 10 days after service of notice is hereinafter provided in § 99-17.
A. 
No additional warnings, either in writing or verbally, shall be given for subsequent violations for the remainder of the calendar year.
[Amended 9-10-1991 by Ord. No. 91-23; 12-8-2022 by Ord. No. 22-19]
It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant of any lot to maintain thereon any ingraded excavation, or any excavation in which water may become stagnant, and continue such condition in excess of 10 days after service of the notice hereinafter provided in § 99-17.
[Amended 9-10-1991 by Ord. No. 91-23; 12-8-2022 by Ord. No. 22-19]
In the event that the owner, lessee or occupant of lands fails to remove the substance or correct the condition prescribed as unlawful in §§ 99-14, 99-15 and 99-16 hereinabove, within 10 days after the notice to remove or remedy the same, and the Mayor and Council having determined that the same is necessary and expedient for the preservation of the public health, safety and general welfare, or to eliminate a fire hazard, the said Mayor and Council may cause the same to be done. Thereafter, the foreman of the Street Department or the Street Commissioner shall certify the cost thereof to the Mayor and Council, and it shall cause such cost and expense thereof to be charged against and become and charge and lien upon such lands, and shall be added to and become and form part of, the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands, the same to bear interest at the same rate as taxes, and shall be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes. The notice herein provided for shall be in writing and shall be served upon a resident of Garwood personally, or by leaving it at his or her usual place of abode, and shall be served upon a nonresident of Garwood by mailing the same to his or her last known address as shown on the tax records. This remedy shall be in addition to the penalties hereinafter provided.
The Chief of the Fire Department and/or the Secretary of the Board of Health shall report any violations of the provisions of this chapter to the Police Department, whose duty it shall be to enforce such provisions.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Section 14-20, Violation, penalty, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 5-10-1988 by Ord. No. 88-07. Additionally, original Art. IV, Recycling, adopted 12-9-1986 by Ord. No. 86-28, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 11-26-1991 by Ord. No. 91-28 and 8-11-1992 by Ord. No. 92-09.