[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Weymouth 12-29-1980 by Ord. No. 243-80 as Ch. III, Sec. 3-2,
of the 1980 Revised General Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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, deposited or stored as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
Any dwelling house, building or other structures 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, ground, walk, driveway, porch, steps or
vestibule belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building
or other structure.
Any streets, sidewalks, alleys or other public ways and any
and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
Any structure or building owned or operated by the federal,
county or state government or any governmental agency.
All putrescible solid wastes (except body wastes) including
garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned
automobiles, dismantled automobiles and parts thereof, scrap metal,
junk, machinery and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes, consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as papers, wrappings, cigarettes,
cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding,
crockery, building materials 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.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street,
sidewalk or other public place within the Township, except in public
receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection, or
in official Township dumps; provided, however, that the public receptacles
shall not be used by persons owning or occupying property in the vicinity
of the public receptacles for the deposit of domestic, commercial
and industrial litter arising from the conduct of those activities.
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 streets,
sidewalk or public place.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street
or other public place with the Township, 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, right-of-way or other public
place within the Township the accumulation of litter from the building
or lot or from a public or private sidewalk or driveway or other persons
owning or occupying places of business within the Township 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
Township.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within
the Township unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to
prevent any load or contents of 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 Township, the wheels
or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any street, alley or other
public place, mud, dirt, sticky substances or foreign matter of any
kind.
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
the presence and properly disposed of elsewhere.
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 throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbills in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within
the Township. 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 Township, for any person to hand out or distribute, without
charge, to the receiver thereof, 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, 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, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill on any private premises if requested by
anyone thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on the premises
in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing
the words: "No Peddlers or Agents," or "No Advertisement," or any
similar notice, indicating in any manner that the occupants of the
premises do not desire to be molested or have their right or 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
handbill or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner,
occupancy or other person then present in or upon such private premises.
Provided that in case of inhabited private premises which are not
posted, as provided in this section, such persons, unless requested
by anyone upon such premises not to do so, shall have the authority
to 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 used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations.
B.
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.
No person in any aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within
the Township, any litter, handbill or any other object.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or any 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 building, except as may be authorized by the owners thereof or
required by law.
No person shall throw, deposit or store litter on any occupied
private property 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 and removal
of same in such manner that same shall not be unsightly and detrimental
to the surrounding neighborhood.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter, particularly one
or more automobile bodies, frames or chassis, one or more automobiles
unable to be self-propelled, or one or more abandoned automobiles.
Provided 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 Township, whether owned by such person
or not.
