[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Tuckerton 6-16-1975
by Ord. No. 11-1975. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Antilitter Ordinance
of the Borough of Tuckerton."
A.
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future; words used in the plural number
include the singular number; and words used in the singular number include
the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
B.
AIRCRAFT
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE
BOROUGH
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
GARBAGE
LITTER
LITTER RECEPTACLE
NEWSPAPER
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL
PARK
PERSON
PRIVATE PREMISES
PUBLIC PLACE
REFUSE
RUBBISH
VEHICLE
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
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.
The Borough of Tuckerton, New Jersey.
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.
Directs attention to any business, mercantile or commercial establishment
or other activity, for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting
the interest thereof by sales.
Directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance,
exhibition or event of any kind, for which an admission fee is charged for
the purpose of private gain or profit. The terms of this subsection shall
not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for
the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to such meeting, theatrical
performance, exhibition or event of any kind, when either of the same is held,
given or takes place 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, provided that nothing contained in this subsection
shall be deemed to authorize the holding, giving or taking place of any meeting,
theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind without a license,
where such license is or may be required by any law of this state, or under
any ordinance of this Borough.
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.
Animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking and consumption of food.
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which has been
discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber, paper, or other
natural or synthetic material, or any combination thereof, including, but
not limited to, any bottle, jar or can, or any top, cap or detachable tab
of any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming
or glowing material or any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass
clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal,
plastic or paper containers or other packaging or construction material, but
does not include the waste of the primary processes of mining or other extraction
processes, logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing.
[Amended 10-3-2005 by Ord. No. 23-2005]
A container suitable for the depositing of litter.
[Added 10-3-2005 by Ord. No. 23-2005]
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, boardwalk, beach, recreation center
or any other public area in the Borough, owned or used by the Borough and
devoted to active or passive recreation,
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company
or organization of any kind.
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, beaches, boardwalks, boulevards,
alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces,
grounds and buildings.
All 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 solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible
wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings,
leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
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.
[Amended 12-5-1988 by Ord. No. 21-1988]
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any
street, sidewalk, beach, boardwalk or other public place or upon any private
property within the Borough without complying with the State Sanitary Code
for landfills, except in public receptacles, in authorized private receptacles
for collection or in official city dumps.
B.
It shall be unlawful to dump or dispose of any household
or commercial solid waste or litter in any place not specifically designated
for the purpose of solid waste storage or disposal.
[Amended 12-5-1988 by Ord. No. 21-1988]
A.
Litter receptacles suitable for the depositing of litter
and their servicing are required at the following public places which exist
in the municipality:
(1)
Sidewalks used by pedestrians in active retail commercially
zoned areas, such that at a minimum there shall be no single linear quarter-mile
without a receptacle.
(2)
Buildings held out for use by the public.
(3)
Schools, government buildings and railroad and bus stations.
(4)
Parks.
(5)
Drive-in restaurants.
(6)
All street vendor locations.
(7)
Self-service refreshment areas.
(8)
Construction sites.
(9)
Gasoline service station islands.
(10)
Shopping centers.
(11)
Parking lots.
(12)
Campgrounds and trailer parks.
(13)
Marinas, boat moorage and fueling stations.
(14)
Boat launching areas.
(15)
Public and private piers operated for public use.
(16)
Beaches and bathing areas.
(17)
At special events to which the public is invited, including
sporting events, parades, carnivals, circuses and festivals.
B.
The proprietors of these places or the sponsors of these
events shall be responsible for providing and servicing the receptacles such
that adequate containerization is available.
C.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized
private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being
carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public
place or upon private property.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other
public place within the Borough the accumulation of litter from any building
or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning
or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free
of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep into or
deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Borough the
accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private
sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying places of business within
the Borough shall keep the sidewalk in front of their business 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 Borough or
upon private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the
Borough 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. Nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle or truck
within the Borough, the wheels or tires of which carry into or deposit in
any street, alley or other public place mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter
or foreign matter of any kind.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the Borough,
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, bay,
stream or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the Borough.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the Borough,
nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill
in any public place; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful on any
sidewalk, street or other public place within the Borough for any person to
hand out or distribute such handbill, without charge to the receiver thereof,
to any person willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any vehicle; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in
any public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to
the receiver thereof, 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 temporarily or continuously uninhabited
or vacant.
No person shall throw or deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial
handbill upon any private premises if requested by anyone thereon not to do
so, or if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous position near
the entrance thereof a sign bearing the words: "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers
or Agents," "No Advertisement" or any similar notice indicating in any manner
that the occupants of said premises do not desire to be molested or have their
right of privacy disturbed or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
A.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited,
except by handling or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner,
occupant or other person then present in or upon such private premises; provided,
however, that in case of inhabited private premises which are not posted,
as provided in this chapter, such person, unless requested by anyone upon
such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such 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.
B.
There shall be an 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 person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the
Borough any litter, handbill or any other object, except for the dropping
of a wreath on Pohatcong Lake on Memorial Day.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper or device
calculated to attract the attention of the public, to any lamppost, public
utility pole or shade tree, or upon any public structure or buildings, except
as may be authorized or required by law.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied private property
within the Borough, 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, sidewalks 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.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private
property within the Borough, whether owned by such person or not.
A.
Notice to remove. The Board of Health is hereby authorized
and empowered to notify the owner of any open or vacant private property within
the Borough or the agent of such owner to properly dispose of litter located
on such owner's property which is dangerous to public health, safety
or welfare. Such notice shall be by registered mail, addressed to said owner
at his last known address.
B.
Action upon noncompliance. Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any owner or agent so notified to properly dispose of litter dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare within 10 days after receipt of written notice provided for in Subsection A above, or within 15 days after the date of such notice in the event the same is returned to the Borough Post Office Department because of its inability to make delivery thereof, provided the same was properly addressed to the last known address of such owner or agent, the Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the disposing of such litter or to order its disposal by the Borough.
C.
Charge included in tax bill. When the Borough has effected
the removal of such dangerous litter or has paid for its removal, the actual
costs thereof, plus accrued interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the
date of the completion of the work, if not paid by such owner prior thereto,
shall be charged to the owner of such property on the next regular tax bill
forwarded to such owner by the Borough, and said charge shall be due and payable
by said owner at the time of payment of such bill.
D.
Recorded statement constitutes lien. Where the full amount due the Borough is not paid by such owner within 30 days after the disposal of such litter, as provided for in Subsection A and B above, then, and in that case, the Board of Health shall cause to be recorded in the Tax Collector's Office of the Borough a sworn statement showing the cost and expense incurred for the work, the date the work was done and the location of the property on which said work was done. The recordation of such sworn statement shall constitute a lien and privilege on the property, and shall remain in full force and effect for the amount due in principal and interest, plus costs of court, if any, for collection, until final payment has been made. Said costs and expenses shall be collected in the manner fixed by law for the collection of taxes and, further, shall be subject to a delinquent penalty of 8% in the event the same is not paid in full on or before the date the tax bill upon which said charge appears becomes delinquent. Sworn statements recorded in accordance with the provisions hereof shall be prima facie evidence that all legal formalities have been complied with and that the work has been done properly and satisfactorily and shall be full notice to every person concerned that the amount of the statement, plus interest, constitutes a charge against the property designated or described in the statement and that the same is due and collectible as provided by law. Said lien may be sold and assigned or foreclosed upon by the Borough in the same manner and to the same extent as a lien for unpaid taxes assessed on said property.
[Amended 10-3-2005 by Ord. No. 23-2005]
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Judge. The
continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a
separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
