[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Shamong
12-2-1980 by Ord. No. 1980-6. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Shamong Township
Anti-Litter Ordinance."
In the interpretation of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings:
Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated
for navigation or for flight in the air. The word "aircraft" shall include
helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
A litter storage and collection receptacle as required and authorized
in "An Ordinance to Regulate Garbage, Trash and Waste Collection in the Township
of Shamong," codified in chapter XIII.
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular,
leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced
original or copies of any matter of literature:
Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity, or thing;
or
Which directs attention to any business or mercantile or commercial
establishment, or other activity, for the purpose of either directly or indirectly
promoting the interest thereof by sales; or
Which directs attention to or advertises any meetings, theatrical performance,
exhibition, or event of any kind, for which an admission fee is charged for
the purpose of private gain or profit; but the terms of this clause shall
not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for
the purpose of defraying incidental expenses in connection with the dissemination
of information which is not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency,
good morals, public peace, safety and good order; or
Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter,
is predominantly and essentially an advertisement, and is distributed or circulated
for advertising purposes, or for the private benefit and gain of any person
so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Garbage, refuse, and rubbish as defined herein, and all other waste
material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create
a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any
newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States
in accordance with federal statute or regulation, and any newspaper filed
and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law; and in
addition thereto, shall mean and include any periodical or current magazine
regularly published with not less than four issues per year, and sold to the
public.
Any printed or written matter, any sample, or device, dodger, circular,
leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet, or any other printed
or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature not
included in the aforesaid definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper.
A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any
other public area in the Township, owned or used by the Township and devoted
to active or passive recreation.
Any dwelling, house, building, or other structure, designed or used
either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited
or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any
yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox, belonging
or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building, or other structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, alleys or other public ways and any
and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
Putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes),
including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned
automobiles, and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible sold wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible
wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings,
leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, brush, weeds, dead and dying trees,
stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth and debris.
Litter as defined herein.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place within the Township except in public receptacles, in
authorized private receptacles for collection, or in official Township landfills
during specified hours, and shall place or deposit litter in such a manner
that it will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements
upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
Persons owning or occupying places of business or property within the
Township shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or
deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the Township,
or upon private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicles within the
Township unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any
load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley
or other public place.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the Township
except in public receptacles and in such a manner that the litter will be
prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any part of
the park or upon any street or other public place. Where public receptacles
are not provided, all such litter shall be carried away from the park by the
person responsible for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as
provided herein.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond, lake,
stream, bay or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the Township.
No person shall hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill
in any public place; provided that it shall not be unlawful on any sidewalk,
street, or other public place within the Township for any person to hand out
or distribute, without charge, any noncommercial handbill to any person willing
to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any vehicle, provided that it shall not be unlawful in any public
place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge, a noncommercial
handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any private premises which are uninhabited or vacant.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial
handbill upon any private premises if requested by anyone thereon not to do,
or if there is placed on the premises in a conspicuous position near the entrance
thereof a sign or notice indicating in any manner that the occupants of the
premises do not desire to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
A person, unless requested by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may
place or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon such
inhabited private premises if such handbill is so placed or deposited as to
secure or prevent such handbill from being blown or drifted about such premises
or sidewalks, streets, or other public places, and except that mailboxes may
not be so used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations; or
may hand or transmit any such handbill directly to the owner, occupant, or
other person then present in or upon such private premises.
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Exemption for mail and newspapers. The provisions of
this section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States,
nor to newspapers (as defined herein) except that newspapers shall be placed
on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or
deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place
or upon private property.
No persons in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the
Township any litter, handbill or any other subject.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper or device,
calculated to attract the attention of the public, to any lamp post, public
utility pole or shade tree, or upon any public structure or building, except
as may be authorized or required by law.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied private property
or on any open or vacant lots within the Township whether owned by such person
or not, except that the owner or person in control of private property may
maintain authorized private receptacles for collection in such a manner that
litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon
any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon any private property.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall at all
times maintain the premises free of litter. Provided, however, that this section
shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized private receptacles
for collection.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this
chapter shall be subject to a fine, upon conviction thereof, of not more than
$500 or imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both, at the discretion of the Magistrate before whom such conviction may
be had. Each day such violation shall continue shall constitute a separate
defense.
