Whenever the public officer charged with the
enforcement of this chapter shall deem it necessary and expedient
for the preservation of the public health, safety and general welfare
or the elimination of a fire hazard or upon the investigation of a
complaint of any resident, officer or employee of the Township, he
or she may order the owner, tenant or person in possession of any
lands on which any grass, weeds, trash or other debris are found to
exist, to remove the same within 10 days.
No person shall throw, deposit or cause to be
thrown or deposited any brush, weeds, dead and dying trees, stumps,
roots, obnoxious growth, filth, garbage, trash or debris of any kind,
or permit the same to be scattered by wind or otherwise, upon lands
of another person.
[Added 6-24-1997 by Ord. No. 1055-97; 9-3-2002 by Ord. No. 1233-02; 11-7-2002 by Ord. No. 1245-02; 12-3-2002 by Ord. No. 1247-02]
A. Commercial landscapers may not operate within the
Township of Hazlet without first procuring a license to be issued
by the Licensing Agent. The license period shall be for one year,
from July 1 through June 30, and be issued upon payment of a license
fee of $35. The license application shall include the name, address
and telephone number of the commercial landscaper together with the
name, address and telephone number of the principals of such enterprise,
vehicle descriptions, and shall indicate whether the applicant is
incorporated, a partnership, or individual proprietorship. The license
is to be displayed on the front driver's side bumper.
(1) There shall be no restrictions on the number of such
licenses issued.
(2) Commercial landscapers must be thus licensed to perform
any commercial landscaping services within the Township of Hazlet.
B. Commercial landscapers working within the Township
of Hazlet shall be responsible for disposal of all brush and tree
cuttings generated, and shall not place any brush and tree cuttings
along the street or for curbside collection.
[Amended 7-5-2011 by Ord. No. 1494-11]
C. No brush or tree cuttings shall be placed, stored
or otherwise disposed of on any public property, within ponds, lakes,
streams, swamps, marshes, wetlands, wetland buffers, conservation
easements, nontidal floodways, or similar watercourses.
[Amended 7-5-2011 by Ord. No. 1494-11]
D. Commercial landscapers shall not dispose of leaves
or grass into roadways or storm sewers and must dispose of same at
an appropriate off-site disposal area.
[Amended 7-5-2011 by Ord. No. 1494-11]
E. The disposal of brush, leaves or grass for commercial
landscapers will not be accepted at the Hazlet Township Recycling
Department Facility.
[Amended 7-5-2011 by Ord. No. 1494-11]
[Added 9-21-1993 by Ord. No. 923-93]
For violation of any provision of this chapter, the maximum penalty, upon conviction, shall not exceed the maximum penalties set forth in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
III. Each and every violation of any provision of this chapter shall be considered a separate violation and shall subject the person so charged to the maximum penalty.