[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of Mount
Laurel 5-19-1959 as Ord. No. 1959-1BH.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: Pursuant to the adoption of Ord. No. 1971-1, the
legislative functions of the former Board of Health are vested in the Township
Council. The Council will adopt all amendments to this legislation subsequent
to said ordinance.
All that certain tract of land consisting of 10.9 acres situated on
the north side of the road leading from Evesboro to Union Mills, recently
conveyed by John H. Eiselman and Coral A. Eiselman to the Township of Mount
Laurel, is hereby designated as a public dump for the use of residents of
the Township of Mount Laurel, where only residents of the Township of Mount
Laurel shall dump all garbage, junk, waste matter, offal and deleterious matter.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, associations or corporations
to maintain any dumping area in the Township of Mount Laurel where the dumping
of garbage, junk, waste matter, offal and deleterious matters is permitted.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, association or corporation
to dump garbage, junk, waste matter, offal and deleterious matter in any place
in the Township of Mount Laurel other than the public township dump.
The use or maintenance of any area other than the public dumping area
for the dumping of garbage, junk, waste matter, offal and deleterious matter
is a detriment to the public health and is hereby deemed a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, associations or corporations
other than residents of the Township of Mount Laurel to dump any garbage,
junk, waste matter, offal and deleterious matter in the public township dump.
[Amended 10-1-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-33]
Any person or persons, association or corporation violating the provisions
of this chapter or any part thereof shall, upon conviction, be subject to
a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding
90 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court or
other officer before whom hearing thereof is held.
