As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
GARBAGE
Includes but is not limited to waste from the preparation,
cooking and consumption of food; metal, glass, plastic and paper containers
for food and household products; and paper, cartons, rags, dead animals,
putrescible substances and similar disposable items.
RUBBISH
Dry combustible or noncombustible material, which shall include
but is not limited to ashes, magazines, books, newspapers, clothing,
wooden crates and pieces of metal, junk, discarded furniture, rugs
and carpets.
TRASH
Includes but is not limited to lumber, building materials,
concrete, rocks, fill, topsoil, inoperable or wrecked automobiles,
automobile parts, plumbing fixtures, household appliances, leaves,
branches, grass, tree stumps and limbs.
No person shall throw, place, litter, deposit
or dump or suffer or permit any servant, agent, employee or person
in his charge to throw, place, litter, deposit or dump any garbage,
rubbish or trash of any kind on the surface of any street, public
grounds or private property in the Village for the purpose of abandonment
or otherwise.
The owner of any private property in the Village
shall at all times maintain said premises free of garbage, rubbish
and trash, except that this section shall not prohibit the temporary
storage of garbage and rubbish in authorized private receptacles for
collection or trash in connection with bona fide land clearing and
building activity or the making and retaining of a compost heap and
mulching area for normal gardening purposes in accordance with customary
gardening practices.
[Added 9-19-2000 by L.L.
No. 1-2000]
Violations of this article shall be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II.