For purposes of this article, the following
terms shall be defined as follows:
INFECTIOUS WASTE
A.
Equipment, instruments, utensils and fomites
of a disposable nature from the rooms of patients who are suspected
to have or have been diagnosed as having a communicable disease.
B.
Laboratory wastes which includes all tissues,
specimens, cultures, blood elements, excreta and secretions obtained
from patients or laboratory animals, and disposable fomites (any inanimate
object that may harbor or transmit pathogenic organisms).
C.
Surgical operating room pathological specimens
and disposable fomites attendant thereto and similar disposable materials
from outpatient areas and emergency rooms.
MEDICAL WASTE
All waste generated during the treatment of a patient, both
infectious and noninfectious and includes all instruments, supplies,
containers, gloves, tubing, bandages, examination paper, disposable
gowns, bibs, etc., used by health care practitioners and facilities.
PATHOLOGICAL WASTE
Any gross and/or microscopic biological tissue removed surgically
or at autopsy and which meets the definition of solid waste as described
under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA).
[Amended 4-8-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
No person shall set or place out for collection
any garbage, ashes, refuse or other material other than grass cuttings,
leaves and brush along Route No. 10 and Ridgedale Avenue in the Township
of Hanover for collection by the Public Works, Buildings and Grounds
and Park Maintenance Department of the Township of Hanover or by any
private scavenger before 6:00 p.m. on the day prior to the day the
refuse is to be collected. All refuse receptacles placed along Route
No. 10 and Ridgedale Avenue are to be removed by 12:00 noon on the
same day refuse has been collected.
[Amended 4-8-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
No person shall set or place out for collection
any garbage, ashes, refuse or other material other than grass cuttings,
leaves and brush along any other streets or public thoroughfares in
the Township of Hanover, other than Route No. 10 and Ridgedale Avenue,
for collection by the Public Works, Buildings and Grounds and Park
Maintenance Department of the Township of Hanover or by any private
scavenger before 6:00 p.m. of the day prior to the collection day
for garbage, ashes, refuse, etc., for said property. All refuse receptacles
placed along any streets within the Township of Hanover, other than
Route No. 10 and Ridgedale Avenue, shall be removed by 7:00 p.m. of
the same day refuse has been collected.
[Amended 4-8-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
No person shall place out for collection by the Public Works, Buildings and Grounds and Park Maintenance Department of the Township of Hanover any pathological or infectious waste as defined in §
154-18 of this article.
The Police Department and the Health Department
of the Township of Hanover are hereby authorized to enforce this article.
[Amended 7-11-1991 by Ord. No. 16-91; 4-8-2010 by Ord. No.
12-10]
The owner or user of any property whereon a
violation of this article occurs or any person employed in connection
therewith shall each be guilty of a separate misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000
and/or imprisonment up to 90 days, or both. Each and every day such
a violation occurs shall be deemed a separate and distinct violation.
In addition to the fine imposed, violators shall be required to pay
any increase in tipping fees or related costs as a result of the inclusion
for collection by the Municipal Department of Public Works, Buildings
and Grounds and Park Maintenance, items prohibited by this article.