This ordinance shall be known as the "Palmer
Township Recycling Ordinance."
As used in this ordinance, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR
A person authorized by the municipality to collect, transport,
and dispose of municipal waste or recyclable materials.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Events that are organized by public or private establishments
or individuals that include but are not limited to fairs, bazaars,
socials, picnics and organized sporting events attended by 50 or more
individuals per day.
CURBSIDE
A location readily accessible to the authorized collector
adjacent to the curb or to the roadway if there is no curb.
DROPOFF CENTER
An area where an individual may deposit recyclable materials
and where recyclables may be sorted.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those facilities that house or serve groups of people such
as hospitals, schools, day-care centers, and nursing homes.
LEAF WASTE
Leaves from trees, bushes and other plants, garden residue,
chipped shrubbery and tree trimmings, but not including grass clippings.
MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENT
A public facility operated by the municipality and other
governmental and quasi-governmental authorities.
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, industrial, lunchroom or office waste,
and other materials including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained
gaseous material resulting from an operation or residential, municipal,
commercial, or institutional establishments or from community activities
and which are not classified as residual waste or hazardous waste.
The term does not include source-separated recyclable materials.
PERSONS
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, institution,
cooperative enterprise, municipality, municipal authority or any other
legal entity whatsoever which is recognized by law as the subject
of rights and duties. This includes non-person legal entities.
RECYCLING
The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of
metals, glass, paper, leaf wastes, plastics and other materials which
would otherwise be disposed or processed as municipal waste.
RECYCLING CONTAINERS
Those containers provided by the municipality (Palmer Township)
and other properly labeled containers used for the sole purpose of
storing recyclables.
RECYCLING COORDINATOR
The person responsible to coordinate the activities of the
recycling program of Palmer Township and from time to time recommend
revisions of the Recycling Regulations to the Board of Supervisors.
RECYCLING REGULATIONS
Those regulations issued and from time to time revised by
resolution of the Board of Supervisors setting forth specific requirements
for the collection program for recyclables.
SOURCE SEPARATION
To separate recyclable materials from the municipal waste
stream at the point of waste generation.
All recyclables for curbside collection or for
any public dropoff center shall be prepared for curbside collection
or delivery to a dropoff center in accordance with the specifications
established in the Recycling Regulations.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate
or to cause or to assist in the violation of any provision of this
ordinance or any provision of the regulations. No person shall scavenge,
remove, take, scatter or disturb recyclable materials which have been
placed by persons at the curbside for their collection by authorized
collectors pursuant to the curbside collection program, or deposited
at a dropoff center.
[Amended 4-19-1993 by Ord. No. 251]
A. Any person violating a provision of this ordinance
or a regulation pursuant thereto shall be given a written notice thereof
from the Township Secretary, upon recommendation by the Township Recycling
Coordinator. The said notice shall give the person a period of 30
days to comply with the provisions of the said ordinance or the said
regulations. If, after receipt of such notice, the person continues
to violate the provisions of the said ordinance or the said regulations,
the said person shall be prosecuted as provided below.
B. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be prosecuted in the manner provided by law before
a District Magistrate and, upon conviction of such violation, shall
be subject to a fine not in excess of the sum of $300 together with
the cost of prosecution. Each day on which such a violation or violations
occurs and each day on which such violation or violations continue
to occur shall be considered as a separate offense for each and every
day of such violation. Upon failure of the person so convicted to
pay the fines so imposed, confinement shall be ordered in the Northampton
County Prison for a period of not less than three days nor not in
excess of 30 days. All portions of the fines to the Township for violation
of the Palmer Township Solid Waste Management Ordinance or the Palmer
Township Recycling Ordinance and/or regulations applicable shall be
paid to the Township of Palmer and shall be earmarked to be spent
on the administrative costs of the Palmer Township Solid Waste Management
Program and the Palmer Township Recycling Program.
Should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase of this ordinance or its regulations be declared unconstitutional
or invalid for any reason, the remainder of this ordinance and its
regulations shall not be affected thereby.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which
are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Nothing contained in this ordinance or its regulations
shall be construed to interfere with or in any way modify the provisions
of any existing contracts which are in force in the Township on the
effective date of this ordinance.
This ordinance and its regulations shall go
into effect on September 24, 1990. No enforcement of the provisions
of this ordinance or its regulations shall be made until two months
from the effective date of September 24, 1990.