[Adopted 1-4-1988 by Ord. No. 158]
A.
The municipality (as hereinafter defined) finds it
necessary to regulate the collection of municipal solid waste (as
hereinafter defined) generated within its boundaries in order to protect
the public health, safety and welfare of its taxpayers and residents.
B.
Act No. 180 of July 12, 1972, 53 P.S. § 481
et seq.,[1] authorizes a municipality to enter into joint cooperation
agreements with other municipalities in the exercise or in the performance
of their respective governmental functions, powers or responsibilities.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said Act was repealed 12-19-1996
by P.L. 1158, No. 177. See now 53 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 2301
to 2315, inclusive.
C.
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980,
as amended, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq. (hereinafter referred
to as the "Act"), authorizes a municipality to require by ordinance
that all municipal wastes generated within its jurisdiction shall
be disposed of at a designated facility.
D.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Act, the Delaware
County Council has caused to be prepared the Delaware County Solid
Waste Management Plan of 1985, which was reviewed by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection, revised and is dated December,
1986 (the County Plan), which recommends that for the foreseeable
future, the solid waste from this municipality be disposed of by means
of regional facilities authorized by the county, the Delaware County
Solid Waste Authority and/or the Authority's contractor (hereinafter
collectively referred to as the "county").
E.
The County Plan, in February, 1987, received preliminary
approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP), with final DEP approval conditional upon the county obtaining
such municipal adoptions of the County Plan as may be necessary for
its implementation.
F.
The County Plan concludes that a county-wide solid
waste disposal system should include a resources recovery plant or
plants located within the county because it would be the most environmentally
sound and cost-effective method of disposing of municipal solid waste
within the county.
G.
In order to obtain the environmental, economic and
public benefits from the plant or plants as discussed in the County
Plan, it is necessary that commitments be obtained from the local
municipalities within the county as to the use of the plant or plants
for the disposal of municipal solid waste from such municipalities.
H.
The Township of Concord has full authority under the
applicable laws to provide for the management of municipal solid waste
within its boundaries as hereinafter provided.
I.
The form of this article has been approved by the
county and it has been or will be included in the county's Solid Waste
Management Plan, which has been or will be filed with the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection.
J.
The county agrees to assist in the implementation
of the County Plan but only after this article has been enacted by
a sufficient number of municipalities in the county to make the construction
of such plant or plants as proposed in the County Plan feasible.
K.
Under the Act, any municipality with a population
density in excess of 300 persons per square mile or which has a solid
waste disposal problem must develop a solid waste management plan
to be approved by DEP but may, at its option and with the county's
agreement, delegate this duty to the county.
L.
This municipality has delegated this aforesaid duty
to the county, and the county has accepted this responsibility.
A.
COLLECTOR
CONTRACTOR
MUNICIPALITY
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE
PERSON
PLANT
SOLID WASTE FACILITY
The following terms shall have the following meanings
in this article:
Any person collecting or transporting municipal solid waste
for owners or occupants of property in the municipality, including
the municipality itself if it undertakes the collection of municipal
solid waste directly, and any business or institution within the municipality
which generates municipal solid waste and uses its own employees and
equipment for the collection and transport of the waste.
One or more contractors with whom the county or the Delaware
County Solid Waste Authority (hereinafter referred to as "Authority")
contracts for construction and operation of the proposed resource
recovery plant or plants or other solid waste facilities.
The Township of Concord.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and other material, including solid or semisolid material generated
in residential, municipal, commercial or institutional establishments
and from community activities, and other solid waste which is within
the definition of the term "municipal solid waste" as set forth in
the Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq.,
and which the county, Authority, or contractor, by its ordinance or
regulations, is willing to accept at the plant, but excluding any
liquid waste or sludge, all wastes which are defined by existing or
future federal or state law or regulations as hazardous waste or industrial
residual waste, any waste which may be marketable and which is intentionally
segregated for purposes of recycling and materials specifically excluded
under applicable county ordinances.
Any individual, partnership, association, corporation or
governmental entity, with the exception of the county, Authority,
or designated contractor.
The energy and/or material recovery facility or facilities,
transfer station or solid waste plants owned by the county or Authority
or contractor, including all associated property and equipment.
Any site owned and operated by the county, the Authority
or its designated contractor for the purpose of transfer, processing
or disposal of municipal solid waste, including landfills, resource
recovery plants and transfer stations.
It is hereby declared to be unlawful and a public
nuisance for any person to accumulate upon any property in this municipality
any municipal solid waste or to dispose of it except in accordance
with this article and other applicable laws, ordinances or regulations.
The municipality has been advised by the county
that the Solid Waste Plan proposes to provide for a plant or plants
which will be operated efficiently and economically by the contractor
and/or by the county and in accordance with all applicable laws and
regulations and, also, that the contractor and/or the county will
impose reasonable charges, which will be uniform among all classes
of users of the plant or plants.
[Amended 9-1-2015 by Ord.
No. 368]
Except as it pertains to municipal solid waste
collected directly by this municipality, all collectors of municipal
solid waste generated within the municipality shall be registered
by the municipality and shall be responsible for collecting municipal
solid waste from properties in the municipality pursuant to a contract
between them and the municipality and/or contracts between them and
the owners or occupants of properties.
[Amended 9-1-2015 by Ord.
No. 368]
All collectors shall deliver and dispose of
all municipal solid waste collected within the municipality at the
solid waste facility designated by the county, subject to such reasonable
regulations for the operation thereof as may be established by the
county and/or contractor. Delivery and disposal at any other place
shall be a violation of this article and cause for revocation of the
collector's registration, except in special circumstances approved
in advance by the municipality and the county and/or contractor. All
collectors shall comply in their operation with all applicable laws,
ordinances and regulations pertaining to the collection and transportation
of municipal solid waste.
No person shall use or permit to be used any
property owned or occupied by him within the municipality as a public
or private dump, transfer station or landfill for municipal solid
waste, whether generated within the municipality or elsewhere, without
the express written approval of the municipality.
[Amended 12-3-1996 by Ord. No. 206]
A.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this
article or who permits the violation of any provision of this article
shall pay a fine of $600.
B.
Each violation for each separate day and each violation
of any provision of this article shall constitute a separate and distinct
violation.
C.
Any person who violates or permits the violation of
any provision of this article shall, upon being found liable therefor
in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by Concord Township, pay
the fine prescribed by this article, plus all court costs, including
reasonable attorney fees, incurred by Concord Township.
In addition to the remedies provided in § 142-8 herein, any continued violation of this article or other applicable law which shall constitute a nuisance in fact or which in the opinion of the governing body of this municipality shall constitute a nuisance may be abated by proceeding against the violation in a court of equity for relief.
[Amended 9-1-2015 by Ord.
No. 368]
The collection of municipal solid waste in the
municipality and the disposal thereof shall be subject to such further
reasonable rules and regulations as may from time to time be promulgated
by the governing body of the municipality, including, but without
limitation, regulations as to the form of registration application,
the amount of fee to be charged for said registrations and the terms
of the registrations and registration issuance procedures; provided,
however, that no such rules and regulations shall be contrary to the
provisions of this article, the County Solid Waste Plan or applicable
law.
The municipality reserves the right to amend
this article or repeal it at any time; provided, however, that the
requirement for use of the designated solid waste facility for disposal
of municipal solid waste from the municipality shall not be amended
or repealed without the prior express written approval of the county
during the term of the contract between the county (or Authority)
and contractor providing for the construction and operation of the
plant, which contract shall have a term of 25 years. For the purposes
of securing the contractor's financing, such requirement shall be
deemed to be a contract between the county, the contractor and the
municipality, which the municipality (subject to the terms of the
joint cooperation agreement set forth below) agrees to enforce so
that the municipal solid waste from the municipality will be available
to provide a source of energy for the plant. If the municipality is
not now a collector but in the future it becomes a collector, it agrees
to deliver all municipal solid waste so collected to the plant.
A.
The municipality agrees to deliver or cause to be
delivered during the term of this agreement all municipal solid waste,
as defined herein, generated within the municipality for disposal
at a facility designated by the county.
B.
The county agrees to accept for disposal all such municipal solid waste described in Subsection A above upon completion and commencement of operation of the plant in accordance with a contract, containing terms satisfactory to the county, with the contractor providing for construction and operation of the plant.
C.
The term of this agreement shall be for a period of
25 years, and said term shall commence on the date when the county
advises the municipality that the plant is operational. The municipality,
at its option, may terminate this agreement with 30 days' written
notice to the county in the event that the municipality will incur
substantial costs over and above the costs generally accepted by the
other municipalities in delivering municipal solid waste to the county
during the term of this agreement, provided that the municipality
has first obtained final approval from the Department of Environmental
Protection for its own plan under the Act[1] or an approval from the Department for a modification that brings the municipality under another plan that has already obtained final approval. It is understood, however, that (upon any such termination of this agreement by the municipality) the county, the Authority and/or the county's contractor shall be relieved of any responsibility to accept and dispose of municipal solid waste generated within the municipality. It is further understood that any such termination of this agreement by the municipality shall constitute a repeal, whether express or implied, of § 142-13 of this article.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 6018.101
et seq.
D.
The county shall hold harmless and defend the municipality
from any suit, claim or action challenging the legality of this article
against the municipality. In the event that any such suit, claim or
action is brought against the municipality, the municipality shall
authorize the county, through its designated legal counsel, to defend
against the same, and the municipality shall cooperate with the county
in said defense and shall give the County Solicitor notice of any
such suit, claim or action within five days of the municipality's
receiving notice thereof.
B.
The municipality, by formal resolution dated April
3, 1984, authorized the county to prepare the Solid Waste Management
Plan on the municipality's behalf.
C.
The county, through the staff of its Public Works
Department, its Planning Commission and Charles M. Harris and Associates,
Inc., Consulting Engineers, prepared a ten-year plan for solid waste
management.
D.
The appropriate municipal officials of this municipality
have reviewed the findings and recommendations of the Solid Waste
Management Plan as it affects this municipality, have found the Plan
acceptable and have recommended that the Plan be adopted.
E.
The municipality, accordingly, hereby accepts and
adopts the Solid Waste Management Study prepared by the county as
the ten-year plan for solid waste management required by the Act.
F.
The county is hereby authorized to submit the Plan
to the DEP for the final approval on behalf of the municipality.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Section 15, Effective
date, which immediately followed this section and which provided for
the prevention of solid waste disposal until the completed construction
of the plant, was deleted 1-5-1991 by Ord. No. 221.
