[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Washington
6-20-1988 by Ord. No. 22-88 (Sec. 6-1 of the Revised General Ordinances).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Putrescible animal and vegetable waste 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 packages or construction material.
All streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, beaches or other public
ways, and all public parks, squares, spaces, docks, grounds and buildings.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body wastes)
including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned
automobiles and solid market and industrial waste.
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
on stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall sweep, throw or dump litter in or on any property, whether
occupied, open or vacant and whether owned by that person, or in a public
place or pond, lake or stream or other body of water within the Township,
except in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection.
A.
Requirements for placement and service. Litter receptacles
and their servicing shall be required at the following public places within
the Township: 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; buildings held out for use by the public, including
schools, government buildings, parks, self-service refreshment, construction
sites, gasoline service stations, shopping centers and parking lots, and at
public events to which the public is invited, including sporting events, parades,
carnivals, circuses and festivals. 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 and that
the containers are not allowed to overflow.
B.
Placing litter in receptacles. Persons placing litter
in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in
a manner which prevents the litter from being carried or deposited by the
elements upon a public place or upon private property.
[Amended 3-21-2005 by Ord. No. 13-05]
A.
Purpose. The purpose of this section is to prohibit the
spilling, dumping or disposal of materials other than stormwater to the municipal
separate storm sewer system operated by the Township of Washington so as to
protect public health, safety and welfare and to prescribe penalties for the
failure to comply.
B.
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
PERSON
STORMWATER
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following
terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated
herein unless their use in the text of this section clearly demonstrates a
different meaning. 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.
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with drainage
systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made
channels, or storm drains) and is designed and used for collecting and conveying
stormwater.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association,
or political subdivision of this State subject to municipal jurisdiction.
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that
runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface, is captured
by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage facilities, or is conveyed
by snow removal equipment.
C.
Prohibited conduct. No person shall spill, dump, or dispose
of materials other than stormwater to the municipal separate storm sewer system
or spill, dump or dispose of materials other than stormwater in such a manner
as to cause the discharge of pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer
system.
D.
Exceptions.
(1)
Waterline flushing and discharges from potable water
sources.
(2)
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl
space or basement sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising groundwaters).
(3)
Air conditioning condensate (excluding contact and non-contact
cooling water).
(4)
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn-watering
runoff).
(5)
Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands, water
reservoir discharges and diverted stream flows.
(6)
Residential car-washing water, and residential swimming
pool discharges.
(7)
Sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
(8)
Flows from fire-fighting activities.
(9)
Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with clean
water:
(a)
Beach maintenance equipment immediately following their
use for their intended purposes; and
(b)
Equipment used in the application of salt and de-icing
materials immediately following salt and de-icing material applications. Prior
to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt and de-icing materials must
be removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum extent practicable using
dry cleaning methods (e.g., shoveling and sweeping). Recovered materials are
to be returned to storage for reuse or properly discarded. Rinsing of equipment,
as noted in the above situation, is limited to exterior, undercarriage, and
exposed parts and does not apply to engines or other enclosed machinery.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or
deposit litter in or upon any public or private property. No person shall
cast, shoot or throw anything at, against or into any vehicle, railroad car,
airplane or other facility of transportation or shall place any stick, stone
or other substance upon any railroad track with intent to injure any car passing
thereon or the passengers therein.
No person shall being, cart, remove, transport or collect any litter
from outside the Township and bring it into the Township for the purpose of
dumping or disposing thereof except in an established sanitary landfill. No
truck or other vehicle containing litter which has been transported into the
Township shall be parked or allowed to remain standing on any street in the
Township or on any public property for a period in excess of two hours.
Advertisements, handbills, circulars and papers may be distributed in
the Township only if they are so securely placed at each dwelling that they
will not be blown away by the wind; otherwise, no person shall place any advertisement,
handbill, circular or paper on or in any public street, sidewalk, building
or vehicle within the Township.
In residential zones, no person, firm or corporation shall store or permit the storage of any out-of-service bulky items such as appliances, furniture, mattresses or tires, except in a fully enclosed structure. A farm, as defined in Chapter 217, Zoning, § 217-3, Definitions, shall be exempt from this prohibition, provided that the outdoor storage of any such item is in furtherance of a legitimate farm-related purpose.
A.
Except in accordance with a permit issued pursuant to
the New Jersey Solid Waste Management Act,[1] it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm, association
or corporation, whether as principal or agent, servant or employee, clerk
or otherwise to use or permit to be used any land, road, alley, lane or street
as a dumping ground for garbage, ashes, trash, debris, rubbish, wastepaper,
motor vehicle junk or other refuse matter or to establish a dump within the
Township limits of the Township of Washington.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 13:1E-1 et seq.
B.
No person, persons, firm, association or corporation,
whether as principal or agent, servant or employee, clerk or otherwise, shall
throw garbage, ashes, trash, debris, rubbish, wastepaper, motor vehicle junk
or other refuse matter upon the public streets, roads or avenues or the lands
directly abutting the public streets, roads or avenues within the limits of
the Township.
C.
Any materials unlawfully dumped within the limits of
the Township may be examined in order to establish their point of origin.
If their point of order can be established, the person, firm or corporation
from which such materials originated shall be required to demonstrate that
said materials were disposed of in a lawful manner.
Any person, corporation, partnership or other organization which drives
or moves or causes to be driven or moved any commercial vehicle or truck with
wheels or tires which carry onto or deposit mud, dirt, sticky substances,
construction debris or foreign matter of any kind in any street or other public
place so as to cause a health or safety problem shall immediately remove said
materials from the public street or other public place.
[Amended 3-21-2005 by Ord. No. 13-05]
A.
Enforcement. All police officers of the Township, regular
and special, the Department of Public Works Superintendent or his/her duly
authorized designee, the Health Officer or his/her duly authorized designee,
the Zoning Officer and/or his/her duly authorized designee and the Township
Engineer and/or his/her duly authorized designee, are hereby given full power
and authority and are charged with the duty to enforce all provisions of this
article.
[Amended 5-16-2005 by Ord. No. 17-05]
