[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Stewart Manor 1-7-1969 as Ord. No. 1.2 of the Unified Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes waste food, papers, dead animals or parts thereof
and all waste or discarded wood, lumber or vegetable matter of any
kind or any other matter which shall be flammable or capable of fermentation
or decay.
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.
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.
No person shall deposit or place or cause to be deposited or
to be placed or consent thereto or aid or abet the depositing or placing
upon any of the sidewalks, public streets, highways and public places
or upon any vacant lot, plot or parcel of ground within the Village
any filth, dirt, ashes, garbage, wastepaper, grass cuttings, leaves,
dust, rubbish or litter of any kind; and no person being the owner,
lessee or occupant of any house, building, structure, plot or parcel
of ground shall allow to accumulate any such filth, dirt, ashes, garbage,
wastepaper, grass cuttings, leaves, dust, rubbish or litter of any
kind upon the sidewalks, public streets, highways or public places
in front of or abutting upon such house, building, structure, plot
or parcel of ground.[1]
