For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as
follows:
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food and material such as paper, cardboard,
wood, cloth, food cans, glass containers and bottles.
PERSON
Any person, employee, servant, agent, firm, partnership, association,
company or organization or entity of any kind.
PUBLIC PLACE
Includes parking areas, rights-of-way, parks, trails, grounds or
other public areas.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including garbage,
rubbish and ashes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes, including ashes, consisting of both
combustible and noncombustible wastes such as yard clippings, metals, wood,
glass, bedding, crockery, household appliances, shopping carts, automobiles
or parts thereof and similar materials.
STREET
Includes any public street, roadway, highway, lane or alleyway.
No person shall deposit, throw, cast, lay or suffer or permit any other
person to deposit, throw, cast or lay any waste, litter, rubbish, refuse,
garbage, debris, discarded objects, materials and/or matter of any type on
any street or public place in the Town.
No person shall abandon or discard or cause or suffer any other person
to abandon or discard any article or thing, including but not limited to shopping
carts or shopping wagons, baskets, crates, boxes, cartons, yard supplies,
household appliances, automobiles or parts thereof, machinery or equipment,
rubbish, refuse or garbage in any street or public place in the Town.
No person, being the owner, driver or manager of an automobile or other
vehicle shall deposit, scatter, blow, drop, spill or permit to be deposited,
scattered, blown, dropped or spilled any dirt, gravel, sand, clay, loam, stone
or building rubbish or materials, shavings, rubbish, litter, waste materials,
automobiles or parts thereof, machinery, refuse or garbage therefrom upon
any street or public place in the Town.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be
guilty of a violation punishable as follows:
A. For the first offense, by imprisonment for a period not
to exceed 15 days or by fine, the minimum of which shall be $50 and the maximum
of which shall be $1,000, and appropriate community service related to solid
waste management and cleanup for a period not to be less than eight hours.
B. For a second and subsequent offense, by imprisonment
for a period not to exceed 30 days or by fine, the minimum of which shall
be $100.00 and the maximum of which shall be $1,000, and appropriate community
service related to solid waste management and cleanup for a period not to
be less than 16 hours.