This article shall be known as the "Refuse Disposal
Law of the Town of Wheatfield."
The purpose of this article shall be to protect
and promote the health, safety and welfare of the people of the Town
of Wheatfield and their property value by controlling the dumping,
storing, collection and disposal of refuse within the Town of Wheatfield.
[Amended 7-28-2014 by L.L. No. 3-2014]
As used in this Article
I, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated herein. None of the terms defined below in this Article
I shall be deemed to include, or apply to, any material or activity prohibited or regulated under Article
III of this chapter.
GARBAGE
All putrescible (or decayable) waste, except sewage and body
waste, including vegetable, animal offal and carcasses of dead animals,
waste, food, discarded lumber or vegetable of any kind or any other
matter which shall be flammable or capable of fermentation or decay.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, corporation,
association, society or group.
REFUSE
Includes garbage, rubbish and trash.
RUBBISH
General dry material produced routinely by household, commercial
or industrial establishments such as papers, waste metal cans, ashes,
cinders, glass, pottery, bottles and all discarded substances of a
solid and noncombustible nature.
TRASH
Includes bushes, branches, Christmas trees, lawn rakings
and similar waste materials; bulky objects, such as discarded household
appliances, equipment or furniture, buildings, demolition and construction
waste, tires, soil, earth or inoperable and/or unregistered motor
vehicles.
No person, owner or occupant of real property
shall allow any accumulation of refuse contrary to any provision of
this article or any of the rules or regulations prescribed herein.
All such refuse shall be removed by such person at his or her own
expense. In the event that any person shall allow to accumulate garbage,
trash or refuse which is not collected as provided herein, the Town
Board of the Town of Wheatfield may, after notice to such person,
order the removal of said garbage, trash or refuse and may charge
the cost thereof to such person.
The Town of Wheatfield shall provide for regular
collections of garbage, trash and refuse. Such collection shall be
made during specified hours on specified days and shall be made from
receptacles as hereinbefore described. Such receptacles shall be in
an accessible location as may be designated by the Building Inspector
or the Town Board of the Town of Wheatfield. The garbage collector
shall have the right to omit collections from any premises where the
rules and regulations of the Town Board of the Town of Wheatfield
are not complied with or where employees of the collector are subject
to unnecessary danger or health hazard.
A violation of this article or any section thereof
or any part of any section thereof shall be, for the purpose of jurisdiction,
a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $200
nor more than $1,000 or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both
such fine and imprisonment.