As used in this section:
CONTRACT
Shall mean an arrangement for the provision of service on a regular basis. A contract does not have to be in writing unless state law requires it to be in writing.
PROOF OF COLLECTION SERVICE
Shall mean a written record, log, bill or document evidencing receipt of service for the collection of solid waste for the preceding month from a person lawfully engaging in private solid waste collection services within the Township.
REGULAR SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE
Shall mean the scheduled pickup and removal of solid waste from residential, commercial or institutional premises located within the boundaries of the Township at least once a week.
RESPONSIBLE SOLID WASTE GENERATOR
Shall mean any property owner, tenant or occupant of any single-family residential dwelling or multiple dwelling, or the owner of any commercial or institutional building or structure located within the boundaries of the Township, who generates solid waste at those premises.
SOLID WASTE
Shall mean garbage, refuse and other discarded materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations and from domestic and community activities, and shall include all other waste materials, including liquids, except for solid animal and vegetable wastes collected by swine producers licensed by the State Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes to swine on their own farms.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION
Shall mean the activity related to pickup and transportation of solid waste from its source or location to a solid waste facility or other destination.
SOLID WASTE CONTAINER
Shall mean a receptacle, container or bag suitable for the depositing of solid waste.
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
Shall mean the storage, treatment, utilization, processing or final disposal of solid waste.
SOLID WASTE FACILITIES
Shall mean and include the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by any person pursuant to the provisions of any statute, including transfer stations, incinerators, resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfill facilities or other plants for the disposal of solid waste, and all vehicles, equipment and other real and personal property and rights therein and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection or disposal of solid waste in a sanitary manner.
UTILIZED BY THE TOWNSHIP
Shall refer to any facility which lawfully collects and/or receives for disposal, as the case may be, solid waste which was generated by any residential or nonresidential property in the Township.
[Ord. #1049]
[Ord. #1049]
a. 
Every responsible solid waste generator residing in a single-family residential housing within the Township shall, if such generator has not already done so, enter into a contract for regular solid waste collection service with any person lawfully providing private solid waste collection services within the Township.
b. 
Every responsible solid waste generator residing in multifamily residential housing within the Township shall, if such generator has not already done so, enter into a contract for regular solid waste collection service with any person lawfully providing private solid waste collection services within the Township.
c. 
It shall be the responsibility of the owner of the multiple dwelling to provide a sufficient number of appropriate solid waste containers for the deposit of nonrecyclable waste materials to be disposed of as solid waste.
d. 
Every responsible solid waste generator that is the owner of a commercial or institutional building or structure located within the boundaries of the Township shall, in those instances where regular solid waste collection services are not otherwise provided for, enter into a contract with any person lawfully providing private solid waste collection services within the Township.
e. 
The provisions of Subsection 18-7.2, Paragraphs a and b hereof, shall not apply to any responsible solid waste generator who transports the solid waste which is generated at such generator's residential premises directly to the solid waste facility utilized by the Township for disposal, provided that the responsible solid waste generator comply with the provisions of Subsection 18-7.3 hereof.
[Ord. #1049]
Every responsible solid waste generator within the Township who is transporting solid waste generated at his or her residential premises directly to the solid waste facility utilized by the Township for disposal shall furnish proof of same to the governing body of the Township at least once every 12 months. In order to fulfill this requirement, the responsible solid waste generator may include the proof of service with the municipal tax payment mailed to the Municipal Tax Collector.
[Ord. #1049; Ord. #2184, 2-28-2012, amended]
Within six months after the effective date of this ordinance and at least once every six months thereafter, the Township Clerk shall notify all solid waste generators of the requirements which this ordinance imposes. In order to fulfill the notification requirements of this section, the Clerk will post the ordinance on the Township website. A failure to give any notice required by this subsection shall not relieve a responsible solid waste generator of its obligations under this ordinance and shall not be grounds for any claim by such generator.
[Ord. #1049]
The Township may, but shall not be required to, call upon solid waste collectors operating in the Township to assist in identifying violations of this section, pursuant to the procedures in P.L. 1991, c. 170.