As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes waste food, papers, dead animals or parts thereof
and all waste or discarded wood, lumber or vegetable matter of any
kind or any other matter which shall be flammable or capable of fermentation
or decay.
Includes an individual, society, club, firm, partnership,
corporation or association of persons, and the singular number shall
include the plural number.
Includes waste metal, tin cans, ashes, cinders, glass, pottery
and all discarded substances of a solid and incombustible nature.
No person shall transport or bring or cause to be transported
or brought into or shall throw, dump or deposit or cause to be thrown,
dumped or deposited, in any part of the Town of Somers, any garbage,
rubbish or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof from any garbage, rubbish
or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof from any source whatever originating
outside of the Town of Somers; and no person shall permit such throwing,
dumping or depositing thereof upon property owned, leased or controlled
by such person.
A violation of this article shall be punishable by a fine not
exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both,
for each offense. In addition, the Town Board shall have the right
to maintain an action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction
to compel compliance or to restrain by injunction any violation of
the provisions of this article, pursuant to § 135 of the
Town Law.
