[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Orchard Park 12-3-1979 by L.L. No. 19-1979 (Ch. 65, Art. II,
§§ 65.21 to 65.26 and 65.28, of the 1979 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 10-23-2017 by L.L. No. 2-2017]
No person shall sweep, throw, cast, drop, put
or place, or having accidentally dropped, fail to pick up any bag,
bottle, bottle cap, box, container, garbage, paper, piece of paper,
wrapper, or any other trash or litter, in or upon any public street,
place, park, or building, except in receptacles provided for such
purposes or to permit any person under his or her control or employ
to do the same. Litter includes signs attached to light standards
or utility poles or placed on public property or placed on public
rights-of-way and are subject to immediate disposal.
A.
No person shall sweep, throw or deposit, or cause
to be swept, thrown or deposited, any ashes, dirt, stone, brick, leaves,
grass, weeds, or any other debris or rubbish of any kind, or any water
or liquid of any kind except for purposes of cleansing same into any
public highway, street, gutter or public place or upon any sidewalk
within the Village.
B.
No person shall throw, put, push or place or cause
to be thrown, put, pushed or placed any snow or ice into any public
highway, street, public place or thoroughfare in the Village.
C.
This section shall not apply to water or liquids running
into streets as a result of fire fighting or flushing of fire hydrants
by authorized personnel or the use in a reasonable manner of ashes,
salt or other material for the purpose of reducing the hazard of,
or providing traction on snow, ice or sleet.
No truck or other motor vehicle or trailer or
other motor conveyance shall be operated or loaded in such a manner
that any part or portion of its load, whether sand, gravel, stone,
dirt, rubbish, paper, boxes, trash or other material, shall be dropped,
blown or caused to fall or dropped upon any public street, highway,
public place or thoroughfare in the Village.
No person shall deposit household rubbish or
garbage in public litter receptacles.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any
occupied private property within the Village in such a manner that
it tends to create a danger to the public health, safety and welfare,
whether owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person
in control of private property may maintain private receptacles for
collection as authorized by this chapter. Litter shall be prevented
from being carried or deposited by the elements from any such occupied
private property to the street, sidewalk or other public place or
upon any private property.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any
open or vacant private property within the Village, whether owned
by such person or not.
Persons owning or occupying real property shall
keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
