[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Highland Park 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 1657 (§ 10-7 of the 1987 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction — See Ch. 135.
Flood damage prevention — See Ch. 197.
Land development — See Ch. 230.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1657]
A. 
Purpose. The purpose of this section is to establish requirements for the proper disposal of pet solid waste in the Borough of Highland Park, so as to protect the public, not the owner of such pet.
B. 
Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
PET
A domesticated animal (other than a disability assistance animal) kept for amusement or companionship.
PET SOLID WASTE
Waste matter expelled from the bowels of the pet; excrement.
PROPER DISPOSAL
Placement in a designated waste receptacle, or other suitable container, and discarded in a refuse container which is regularly emptied by the municipality or some other refuse collector; or disposal into a system designed to convey domestic sewage for proper treatment and disposal.
C. 
Requirement for disposal. All pet owners and keepers are required to immediately and properly dispose of their pet's solid waste deposited on any property, public or private, not owned or possessed by that person.
D. 
Exemptions. Any owner or keeper who requires the use of a disability assistance animal shall be exempt from the provisions of this section while such animal is being used for that purpose.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1671]
A. 
Purpose. The purpose of this section is to prohibit the feeding of unconfined wildlife in any public park or on any other property owned or operated by the Borough of Highland Park so as to protect public health, safety ad welfare, and to prescribe penalties for failure to comply.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use in the text of this section 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.
FEED
To give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter any edible material with the intention of feeding, attracting or enticing wildlife. Feeding does not include baiting in the legal taking of fish and/or game.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
WILDLIFE
All animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
C. 
Prohibited conduct. No person shall feed, in any public park or on any other property owned or operated by the Borough of Highland Park, any wildlife, excluding confined wildlife [for example, wildlife confined in zoos, parks or rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at environmental education centers, and feeding of feral cats as part of an approved trap, neuter, and release (TNR) program].
A. 
Purpose. The purpose of this section is to establish requirements to control littering in the Borough of Highland Park, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use in the text of this section 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.
LITTER
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, 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.
LITTER RECEPTACLE
A container suitable for the depositing of litter.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
C. 
Prohibited acts and regulated activities.
(1) 
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 for the owner of the property upon which such litter may be found to allow such litter to remain.
(2) 
Whenever any litter is thrown or discarded or allowed to fall from a vehicle or boat in violation of this section, the operator or owner, or both, of the motor vehicle or boat shall also be deemed to have violated this section.
[Amended by Ord. No. 1671]
A. 
Purpose. The purpose of this section is to establish a yard waste collection and disposal program in the Borough of Highland Park so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use in the text of this section 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.
CONTAINERIZED
The placement of yard waste in a trash can, bucket, bag or other vessel, such as to prevent the yard waste from spilling or blowing out into the street and coming into contact with stormwater.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive, or other way, which is an existing state, county, or municipal roadway, and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, parking areas, and other areas within the street lines.
YARD WASTE
Leaves, brush and branches, but not grass clippings.
C. 
Yard waste collection. The owner or occupant of any property, or any employee or contractor of such owner or occupant engaged to provide lawn care or landscaping services, shall not sweep, rake, blow or otherwise place yard waste, unless the yard waste is containerized, in the street. If yard waste that is not containerized is placed in the street, the party responsible for placement of yard waste must remove the yard waste from the street or said party shall be deemed in violation of this section. The frequency of pickups shall be determined at the discretion of the Tier A Municipality. Any area, which the municipality determines to have no yard waste, will be exempt from the collections.
[Added 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 07-1716]
A. 
Purpose. An ordinance to prohibit the spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) operated by the Borough of Highland Park, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use in the in the text of this section 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.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated by Highland Park or other public body, and is designed and used for collecting and conveying stormwater. MS4s do not include combined sewer systems, which are sewer systems that are designed to carry sanitary sewage at all times and to collect and transport stormwater from streets and other sources.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface, is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
C. 
Prohibited conduct. The spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by Highland Park is prohibited. The spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater in such a manner as to cause the discharge of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system is also prohibited.
D. 
Exceptions to prohibition.
(1) 
Water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources.
(2) 
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl space or basement sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising ground waters).
(3) 
Air-conditioning condensate (excluding contact and non-contact cooling water).
(4) 
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering runoff).
(5) 
Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands, water reservoir discharges and diverted stream flows.
(6) 
Residential car washing water, and residential swimming pool discharges.
(7) 
Sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
(8) 
Flows from fire-fighting activities.
(9) 
Rinsing of equipment.
(a) 
Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with clean water:
[1] 
Beach maintenance equipment immediately following their use for their intended purposes; and
[2] 
Equipment used in the application of salt and deicing materials immediately following salt and deicing material applications. Prior to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt and deicing materials must be removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum extent practicable using dry cleaning methods (e.g., shoveling and sweeping). Recovered materials are to be returned to storage for reuse or properly discarded.
(b) 
Rinsing of equipment, as noted in the above situation is limited to exterior, undercarriage, and exposed parts and does not apply to engines or other enclosed machinery.
[Added 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 07-1716]
A. 
The purpose of this section is prohibit illicit connections to the municipal separate storm sewer system(s) operated by the Borough of Highland Park, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
B. 
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use in the text of this section 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. The definitions below are the same as or based on corresponding definitions in the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Eliminate System (NJPDES) rules at N.J.A.C. 7:14A-1.2.
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
Waste and wastewater from humans or household operations.
ILLICIT CONNECTION
Any physical or nonphysical connection that discharges domestic sewage, noncontact cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial waste (other than stormwater) to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the Borough of Highland Park, unless that discharge is authorized under a NJPDES permit other than the Tier A Municipal Stormwater General Permit (NJPDES Permit Number NJ0141852). Nonphysical connections may include, but are not limited to leaks, flows, or overflows into the municipal storm sewer system.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE
Nondomestic waste, including but not limited to those pollutants regulated under Section 307(a), (b), or (c) of the Federal Clean Water Act [33 U.S.C. § 1317(a), (b), or (c)].
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated by Highland Park or other public body, and is designed and used for collecting and conveying stormwater. MS4s do not include combined sewer systems, which are sewer systems that are designed to carry sanitary sewage at all times and to collect and transport stormwater from streets and other sources.
NJPDES PERMIT
A permit issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to implement the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) rules at N.J.A.C. 7:14A.
NONCONTACT COOLING WATER
Water used to reduce temperature for the purpose of cooling. Such waters do not come into direct contact with any raw material, intermediate product (other than heat) or finished product. Noncontact cooling water may however contain algaecides, or biocides to control fouling of equipment such as heat exchangers, and/or corrosion inhibitors.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
PROCESS WASTEWATER
Any water which, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, byproduct, or waste product. Process wastewater includes, but is not limited to, leachate and cooling water other than noncontact cooling water.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface, is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage facilities, or is conveyed by snow-removal equipment.
C. 
Prohibited conduct. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged through an illicit connection to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the Borough of Highland Park any domestic sewage, noncontact cooling water, process wastewater, or other industrial waste (other than stormwater).
[Added 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 07-1716]
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Borough of Highland Park Department of Code Enforcement.
[Added 4-17-2007 by Ord. No. 07-1716]
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $250. Any person(s) who continues to be in violation of the provisions of this ordinance, after being duly notified, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $250.
[Added 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 25-2100]
In order to protect against the adverse consequences of uncontrolled sump pump and pipe drain discharges, no person shall construct, install, improve, maintain or permit to be operated on the person's owned or occupied property any device which allows any point discharge of water by either forced pumping, such as a sump pump, or gravity, such as a pipe drain, onto a street, sidewalk or public right-of-way except as provided for below.
[Added 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 25-2100]
Sump pumps and pipe drains installed on or after the effective date of these §§ 356-8.1 through 356-8.5, shall comply with the following conditions:
A. 
The sump pump or pipe drain discharge shall preferably be directed onto an absorbent surface as grass, mulch, rock or soil so that the discharge will stay onsite and soak into the ground and not immediately drain to the Borough right-of-way or adjacent properties. The discharge location shall be as approved by the Director of Code Enforcement or his/her designee prior to issuing a permit for the installation of the sump pump. In the event that it is not feasible to direct discharge onto an absorbent surface, the discharge may be directed to a storm sewer, swale, ditch, detention basin, drainage basin or other drainage facility or location as approved by the Director of Code Enforcement or his/her designee. If a connection to the storm sewer is approved, a permit will be required from the Public Works Director prior to installation.
B. 
The discharge location shall not create a public nuisance, which is anything, condition or act which is or may become injurious or hazardous to the public.
C. 
The discharge shall not create a build-up of icing, standing water or algae growth on the street, sidewalk or public right-of-way.
D. 
The discharge shall not be directed to adjacent property in such a manner as to cause damage to the adjacent property or create a nuisance.
E. 
No person shall connect, or cause or permit to be connected, any sump pump, pipe drain, floor drain, surface drain, subsoil drain or leader pipe to the sanitary sewer, or to use the sanitary sewer connection or any pipe or drain connected therewith for the purpose of receiving and discharging drainage of any kind other than from plumbing fixtures.
F. 
Sump pump and pipe drain discharges may not be directed into a Borough street or right-of-way unless permission is granted by the Director of Code Enforcement or his/her designee prior to issuing a permit for the installation of the sump pump.
[Added 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 25-2100]
Sump pumps and pipe drains installed prior to the effective date of these §§ 356-8.1 through 356-8.5, shall comply with the following conditions:
A. 
An existing sump pump or pipe drain discharge installed prior to the effective date of these §§ 356-8.1 through 356-8.5 may continue in its current location provided that such discharge does not:
(1) 
Create a public nuisance which is anything, condition or act which is or may become injurious or hazardous to the public; and
(2) 
Create a build-up of icing, standing water, algae growth or cause erosion on the street, sidewalk or public right-of-way.
B. 
An existing sump pump or pipe drain discharge that is causing a public nuisance or is creating a build-up of icing, standing water, algae growth or cause erosion on the street, sidewalk or public right-of-way shall be corrected by the owner to bring the sump pump or pipe drain discharge into compliance with the requirements within the Municipal Code.
C. 
The Public Works Director or his/her designee may require the following:
(1) 
That the sump pump or pipe drain have a point of discharge that is located a minimum of 10 feet or greater, as directed by the Public Works Director or his/her designee, from any property line or Borough right-of-way.
(2) 
That the discharge be directed within the limits of the owner's property onto an absorbent surface as grass, mulch, rock or soil so that the discharge will be dissipated and not immediately drain to the Borough right-of-way or adjacent properties.
[Added 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 25-2100]
The requirements of these §§ 356-8.1 through 356-8.5 shall be enforced by the Department of Code Enforcement. Whenever there is a violation of these §§ 356-8.1 through 356-8.5, the Public Works Director or his/her designee shall provide written notice to the Director of Code Enforcement or his/her designee, who will then notify the property owner and the property owner shall have 45 days to make the necessary corrections. The failure of an owner of property to comply with the provisions of the written notification shall subject the owner to a fine. Any violation of the provisions of this article shall be punishable as provided pursuant to the Borough Municipal Code. The payment of a fine shall be in addition to performing the remedial action ordered.
[Added 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 25-2100]
The Director of Code Enforcement or his/her designee is hereby designated as the officer charged with enforcement of this article with consultation by the Public Works Director.
[Added 7-6-2010 by Ord. No. 10-1788]
An article requiring dumpsters and other refuse containers that are outdoors or exposed to stormwater to be covered at all times and prohibits the spilling, dumping, leaking, or otherwise discharge of liquids, semiliquids or solids from the containers to the municipal separate storm sewer system(s) operated by the Borough of Highland Park and/or the waters of the state 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.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated by the Borough of Highland Park or other public body, and is designed and used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
REFUSE CONTAINER
Any waste container that a person controls whether owned, leased, or operated, including dumpsters, trash cans, garbage pails, and plastic trash bags.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface, is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
WATERS OF THE STATE
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams and bodies of surface water or groundwater, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its jurisdiction.
A. 
Any person who controls, whether owned, leased, or operated, a refuse container or dumpster must ensure that such container or dumpster is covered at all times and shall prevent refuse from spilling out or overflowing.
B. 
Any person who owns, leases or otherwise uses a refuse container or dumpster must ensure that such container or dumpster does not leak or otherwise discharge liquids, semiliquids or solids to the municipal separate storm sewer system(s) operated by the Borough of Highland Park.
A. 
Permitted temporary demolition containers.
B. 
Litter receptacles (other than dumpsters or other bulk containers).
C. 
Individual homeowner trash and recycling containers.
D. 
Refuse containers at facilities authorized to discharge stormwater under a valid NJPDES permit.
E. 
Large bulky items (e.g., furniture, bound carpet and padding, white goods placed curbside for pickup).
Any person (s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the amount stated under Chapter 1, Article III, General Penalty, of the Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Highland Park.