[Adopted 10-11-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-41]
The purpose of this article is to establish
requirements to control littering in Township of Hillsborough, so
as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe
penalties for the failure to comply.
For the purpose of this article, the following
terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings
stated herein unless their use in the text of this article clearly
demonstrates a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words used in
the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the
singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always
mandatory and not merely directory.
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which
has been discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber,
paper or other natural or synthetic material, or any combination thereof,
including, but not limited to, any bottle, jar or can, or any top,
cap or detachable tab of any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette,
cigar, match or any flaming or glowing material or any garbage, trash,
refuse, debris, rubbish, bagged grass clippings or other lawn or garden
waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers
or other packaging or construction material, but does not include
the waste of the primary processes of mining or other extraction processes,
logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing.
A container suitable for the depositing of litter.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, drop,
discard or otherwise place any litter of any nature upon public or
private property other than in a litter receptacle, or having done
so, to allow such litter to remain.
B.
Whenever any litter is thrown or discarded or allowed
to fall from a vehicle or boat in violation of this article, the operator
or owner, or both, of the motor vehicle or boat shall also be deemed
to have violated this article.
This article shall be enforced by the Health
Officer of the Township of Hillsborough.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation
of the provisions of this article shall be subject to, after being
duly notified, imprisonment in the Somerset County Jail or in any
place provided by the Township of the detention of prisoners, for
any term not exceeding 90 days; or by a fine not exceeding $1,250;
or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days.
Each section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase of this article is declared to be an independent section, subsection,
sentence, clause and phrase, and the finding or holding of any such
portion of this article to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause or reason shall not affect any other portion of this
article.
This article shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption and any publication as may be required
by law.
