[Adopted 6-12-1973 by Ord. No. 73-9
(Ch. 123 of the 1977 Code)]
The Township Committee shall from time to time
establish an area of the Township to be used as a sanitary landfill
and designated as the "Hillsborough Township sanitary landfill."
[Amended 5-27-1980 by Ord. No. 80-8]
Use of the sanitary landfill for dumping purposes
shall be limited to persons, firms or corporations and their agents
whose residences or places of doing business are within the confines
of Hillsborough's municipal boundaries. Such persons, firms or corporations
shall be privileged to use the sanitary landfill for the purpose of
dumping garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste materials and the like,
all of which originate exclusively within the confines of the Hillsborough
municipal boundaries. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation other than those above designated to enter into or upon
the sanitary landfill or use the sanitary landfill for any purposes
whatsoever, and it shall be unlawful to place in the sanitary landfill
any garbage, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste materials or any matter
whatsoever which originates outside the municipal boundaries of Hillsborough
Township, whether or not the same is done by a Township resident or
entity doing business within the Township. No scavengers nor any garbage,
trash, rubbish and/or refuse collectors shall be permitted to make
use of said sanitary landfill at any time.
The foregoing section notwithstanding, it shall
be unlawful for anyone to place in the sanitary landfill any motor
vehicles, large machinery or the like, any explosive or dangerous
substances. Permission from the Zoning Officer must be obtained for
the dumping in limited quantity of stumps, pieces of concrete, trees
over four inches in diameter or the like.
[Added 6-12-1979 by Ord. No. 79-2; 8-14-1979 by Ord. No. 79-5]
The foregoing sections notwithstanding, it shall
be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or scavenger to dump
in the sanitary landfill the contents of any roll-off container or
any demolition or construction material, if the same is delivered
to said landfill in a vehicle weighing eight tons or more.
The Township Committee from time to time shall
establish by resolution the days of operation and the hours of operation
of said sanitary landfill and such other rules and regulations as
the Township Committee shall deem appropriate, so long as said rules
and regulations shall be published once in a newspaper circulated
in the Township and shall be posted conspicuously at the entrance
to the sanitary landfill site. Failure to abide by any such rules
and regulations so established shall be governed by the enforcement
provisions of this article, and fines, penalties and revocation of
dumping privileges may be imposed in accordance with said provisions.
The Township Committee shall from time to time,
when it deems such need exists, create positions or jobs in connection
with the maintenance or operation of said sanitary landfill and shall
by resolution fix the compensation to be paid such personnel; provided,
however, that this section shall not impose a duty upon the Township
Committee to retain any employees for the operation and maintenance
of the sanitary landfill unless the same shall be considered necessary
for the promotion of the health and general welfare of the Township.
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall be permitted
to dump under any circumstances without first having procured a permit
under the procedures set forth in this article. There shall be no
fee whatsoever charged for the use of the sanitary landfill as authorized
in this article.
[Amended 5-27-1980 by Ord. No. 80-8]
B.
Access to the sanitary landfill by Township residents
shall be gained by display on the left rear side window of the vehicle
of a Class A numbered dumping permit, which permit will be issued
without charge to any municipal resident by the Hillsborough Police
Department upon appropriate proof of residence within the Township,
and said permit sticker shall bear the vehicle license plate number
and shall be affixed to the vehicle of said resident by the issuing
officer, and a permanent record file shall be maintained of the numbered
permits, the name and address of the resident and the license plate
number of the vehicle to which said permit sticker is affixed.
C.
Any possessor of a Class A permit is under a duty
to notify the Police Department of an address change and to surrender
the sticker upon removal from the Township or the sale of the vehicle.
A.
Any person, firm, corporation, scavenger or entity which violates any section of this article or any rule or regulation established pursuant to this article shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a Class C violation, punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II.
[Amended 12-27-1977 by Ord. No. 77-21]
B.
In addition to the aforesaid, any person, firm, corporation
or scavenger violating any sections of this article or any rule or
regulation established pursuant to this article shall be subject to
loss of dumping privileges for a period of up to six months for the
first offense and subject to permanent loss of such privileges for
any subsequent offense, by vote of the Township Committee.
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Editor's Note: Former § 123-8, Scavenger
permits, was repealed 5-27-1980 by Ord. No. 80-8, which also provided
for the renumbering of former § 123-9 as § 123-8.
