As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
BULK WASTE
Material too large to be placed in thirty-two-gallon waste
collection containers, such as furniture.
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No. 9-2017]
CURBSIDE
A location on one's own property that is adjacent to
the street but not on the street.
GARBAGE
Refuse or other nonhazardous waste materials common to ordinary
household, institutional or business use, but not including recyclables
or organic yard waste, and not including the following: cell phones;
fluorescent light bulbs; loose ashes from fireplaces, barbecues or
wood-burning stoves; tree trunks, stumps, or limbs in excess of four
feet in length or weighing more than 50 pounds; construction and home
renovation debris; highly combustible materials; cartridges, shells,
and ammunition; explosives; toxic materials; propane gas tanks; trade
waste; cleaning and dyeing establishment waste; commercial meat waste;
and auto parts, including batteries. Notwithstanding the above, diseased
or invasive plants may be disposed of as garbage.
RECYCLABLES
Materials defined as such by the Westchester County Source
Separation Law.
YARD WASTE
Garden debris, flowers, cut grass, sweepings, leaves, rakings,
clippings, small branches, such as annual growth from hedges, bushes
and shrubbery.
The Department of Public Works will not pick up any waste materials
not permitted under, or not disposed of in accordance with, the Sanitation
and Recycling Rules and Regulations.
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No. 9-2017]
A fee in an amount fixed by resolution of the Board of Trustees
shall be charged for the collection of bulk waste.
Any failure to comply with the Sanitation and Recycling Rules
and Regulations promulgated by the Irvington Department of Public
Works shall be a violation of this chapter and may be enforced as
provided in this chapter.
Wire baskets and trash receptacles placed on public property
by the Department of Public Works are intended as receptacles for
the deposit of small items of garbage or recyclables by pedestrians.
These receptacles shall not be used for the disposal of refuse generated
by households, businesses or institutions.
Private carters and contractors shall not transfer or remove
garbage, recycling, yard waste or any other waste material from one
vehicle to another upon any Village street or public place.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation within
the Village to maintain any dump or permit the dumping of garbage,
boxes, cartons, automobile parts, except as may be provided in the
Zoning Ordinance, or permit the accumulation or scattering of any
kind of garbage, debris or waste material of any sort, on or about
any lawn, vacant lot, alley, backyard or in any building, structure,
culvert or stream in the Village of Irvington or to throw or cause
to be thrown or deposited any such junk, garbage, debris or waste
material of any sort at any place in the Village.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing any
person from utilizing self-generated vegetative yard waste and self-generated
vegetative household waste for compost, mulch or other agricultural,
horticultural, gardening or landscaping purposes. Any such waste shall
be composted or used in a manner not to endanger public health, safety
and welfare.