[Adopted 4-14-1969 (C)]
It shall be unlawful for any person to gather or collect within the City of Putnam any refuse, rubbish, garbage or waste matter of any kind, and/or to place, dump or deposit the same in or upon the City Cemetery Landfill Refuse Disposal Area located on River Road within the Town of Putnam, without first having secured a license or permit.
[Amended 2-11-1974; 12-10-1979; 11-10-1988]
A. 
Any person using the Town sanitary landfill area shall obtain a yearly permit from the Town Clerk in accordance with the criteria below. The use of said permit shall be in accordance with all other provisions of this article and with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Selectmen from time to time.
(1) 
Any property owner disposing of refuse by means of a private passenger car or a truck, which refuse has been collected solely from his own private residence, shall be required to obtain a residential permit. All residential permits shall expire December 31 of each year. Residential permits are not transferable to another property owner, but may be redeemed at no additional cost for another residential permit upon presentation of the voided permit to the Town.
(2) 
Commercially licensed vehicles with a rated capacity of more than 3/4 of a ton; or commercially licensed vehicles of 3/4 of a ton or less not falling under the residential permit criteria of Subsection A(1) above shall obtain a commercial permit from the Town and pay, based on the weight of refuse disposed at the sanitary landfill area, a per-ton fee as may be set by the Board of Selectmen from time to time, but in no event less than $18 per ton. Commercial permits may be issued at any time but shall expire December 31 of each year. Commercial permits are not transferable and shall be displayed on all vehicles entering the Town sanitary landfill area. In the event the landfill scale becomes inoperable, the Selectmen may charge commercial permit holders a fee based on a scale outage charge policy adopted by the Selectmen, provided that the effect of such scale outage charge policy shall be to limit the charge to users of the landfill to no more than the current per-ton disposal rate specified in this subsection.
B. 
Billing and accounting. Charges for weighted commercially permitted vehicles will be billed monthly and are due and payable within 30 days. Delinquent payments will be charged interest at the rate of 12% per year. Commercial permittees who are delinquent in the payment of monthly bills for more than 60 days shall be suspended from all disposal privileges until full payment is made.
C. 
Temporary use. Commercial permittees who shall be using the landfill for two months or less shall be required to post either a surety bond or cash bond in the amount of $10,000, or an amount equal to the estimated tonnage charges for two months, whichever is less. Such deposit or security may be applied toward the payment of solid waste disposal bills.
[Amended 5-2-1990 STM]
D. 
Temporary suspension of residential permit requirements. For special purposes, such as disposal of leaves, Christmas trees, or emergency cleanups resulting from severe storms, the Mayor may suspend the requirement that residential users of the landfill display permits. The Mayor shall limit the length of time such suspension may be in effect and may impose other reasonable rules and regulations governing the use of the landfill during these times.
It shall be unlawful for any person to gather or collect within the City of Putnam any inflammable matter and to burn, cause to burn, or set fire to the same in and upon the City of Putnam sanitary land fill refuse disposal area.
[Amended 1-30-1992 STM]
A. 
It shall be the duty of the supervisor-operator of the City of Putnam sanitary landfill refuse disposal area to enforce all rules and regulations regarding said sanitary landfill refuse disposal area.
B. 
In accordance with Section 22a-220a of the Connecticut General Statutes as amended, the Town of Putnam designates the Putnam Landfill as the area where solid waste generated within its boundaries by residential, business, commercial or other establishments shall be disposed of.
C. 
The disposal of such solid waste at any other area is prohibited, except that a municipality may approve, in writing, disposal at another area either within or outside the boundaries of such municipality prior to disposal. The Town of Putnam may refuse to approve disposal at another area if such disposal would adversely affect its solid waste program.
D. 
Any collector who dumps more than one cubic foot in volume at one time in an area not designated for such disposal by a municipality pursuant to the provisions of this section shall, for a first violation, be liable for a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation and $5,000 for a subsequent violation. The Town of Putnam or the Attorney General, at the request of the Commissioner, may bring an action under this section.
All permits issued to any person under the provisions of this article may be revoked at any time by the Common Council upon approval of the Sanitation Committee.
Every person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100.
[Added 2-10-1994 STM]
Notwithstanding any provisions of the foregoing or any other Town ordinance, the disposition of residue in the residue facility, as the same are defined in the certain ground lease dated November 15, 1993, between Wheelabrator Putnam, Inc. and the Town of Putnam, is hereby declared to be permissible under Town ordinance and is hereby authorized for a period coterminous with the term of said ground lease as it may be extended; and any restriction as to the geographic origin of materials to be deposited shall not apply to the proposed residue facility.