[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Delhi 12-1-1975 by L.L. No. 12-1975 (Ch. 24 of the 1979
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Parks and park areas — See Ch. 206.
A.
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE
GARBAGE
LITTER
NEWSPAPER
PARK
PERSON
PRIVATE PREMISES
PUBLIC PLACE
REFUSE
RUBBISH
VEHICLES
VILLAGE
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
A litter storage and collection receptacle of steel, aluminum
or plastic, of 10 to 30 gallons' capacity, with a tight cover, or
a larger steel container with a closed lid.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to the public health, safety and welfare
or tends to create blight.
A printed publication issued at regular intervals, including
any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less
than four issues per year and sold to the public, commonly containing
news, comment, features and advertisements, including any newspaper
duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States
in accordance with federal statute or regulation.
A park, reservation, playground, recreation center or any
other public area in the Village, owned or operated by the Village
and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any house, building or other structure not owned or operated
by the Village, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited
or vacant, including any yard, ground, parking lot, walk, driveway,
porch steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such
house, building or other structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
Includes garbage and rubbish.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as but not limited to paper wrappings,
cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding and crockery.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or public street.
The Village of Delhi.
B.
When not inconsistent with the context, words used
in the present tense include the future; words used in the plural
number include the singular; words used in the singular number include
the plural; and words in the masculine include the feminine and the
neuter. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon
any street, sidewalk or other public place within the Village, except
in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection.
B.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in
authorized private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to
prevent it from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any
street, sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
C.
No person shall place, throw, deposit, discharge,
otherwise cause to be placed, thrown, deposited or discharged any
household trash, lawn clippings and leaves, demolition material, motor
vehicle parts and tires, hazardous waste or materials, or other items
of like nature in public receptacles.
[Added 8-20-2001 by L.L. No. 5-2001]
D.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter,
street or other public place within the Village the accumulation of
litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk
or driveway.
E.
Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the
sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter from any vehicle
upon any street or other public place within the Village or upon private
property.
B.
No person shall drive or move any vehicle or truck
within the Village, the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit
in any street, alley or other public place sticky substances or foreign
matter of such kind as adheres to the road surface.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park
within the Village, except in public receptacles and in such a manner
that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited
by the elements upon any part of the park or upon any street or other
public or private place. Where public receptacles are not provided,
all such litter shall be carried away from the park by the person
responsible for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere, as
provided herein.
B.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any pond,
river, stream or other body of water within the Village.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any private
property within the Village, whether owned by such person or not and
whether occupied or vacant, except that the owner or person in control
of private property may maintain authorized private receptacles for
collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being
carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or
other public place or upon private property.
B.
The owner or person in control of private property
or any portion thereof shall at all times maintain the premises or
that portion controlled by him free of litter, except when stored
properly in authorized private receptacles for collection, when such
person shall have actual notice thereof or when said litter shall
have been present a sufficient length of time to constitute constructive
notice.
[Amended 11-19-1984 by L.L. No. 10-1984]
Each violation of this chapter shall be punishable
by a fine not exceeding $250 for a first conviction thereof; for a
second conviction within 12 months thereafter, such person shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
