[Adopted 1-4-1988 by Ord. No. 159]
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.
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.
[Amended 9-1-2015 by Ord.
No. 368[1]]
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 property.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also changed the title of this
article from "Licensing of Collectors" to "Registration of Collectors."
[Amended 1-5-1991 by Ord. No. 221]
All collectors shall deliver and dispose of all municipal solid waste collected within the municipality in accordance with the provisions of Article I, Solid Waste Disposal, and any amendments thereto or replacements thereof.
[Amended 1-5-1991 by Ord. No. 221; 9-1-2015 by Ord. No. 368]
No collector of municipal solid waste shall collect municipal
solid waste from properties within the municipality unless and until
he, she, or it shall have first registered with the Township for such
purpose and shall have paid the required registration fee. Said registration
fee shall be established from time to time by the municipality by
resolution. Said registration shall be issued by the Secretary of
the Township, or other duly designated Township personnel, subject
to general regulations governing permits, and all such registrations
shall expire on the 31st day of December of the year in which issued,
subject to prior revocation by the Township. Each registration shall
pertain to only one collector and the vehicles used by that collector
solely for that collector's collection of municipal solid waste.
All collectors shall keep and maintain proper
and suitable covers upon all receptacles or motor vehicles used in
the collection of municipal solid waste and shall at all times effectively
prevent any such municipal solid waste from being deposited upon the
streets, highways or other property within the municipality. All such
motor vehicles shall be registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
shall carry the current Pennsylvania motor-vehicle inspection sticker
and shall be in good working order and repair.
[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 resolution
by the municipality, including, but not limited to, regulations as
to the form of registration application required by each collector,
the amount of the fee to be charged for registration, the term of
such registration, registration issuance procedures, registration
revocation procedures, and the imposition of fines and penalties by
the Township.
[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.
D.
Enforcement of this article shall be the responsibility
of the Township Manager, Zoning Officer, Building Inspector, Plumbing
Inspector or Fire Marshal, as appropriate, who shall follow the enforcement
procedure set forth in this article.
[Amended 9-1-2015 by Ord.
No. 368]
In addition to the remedies provided in § 142-20 herein, the municipality may, upon 10 days' notice to the collector of a violation of any provision of this article, revoke and/or suspend any registration issued to the collector pursuant to the provisions of this article.
