As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
COMMINGLED
A combining of nonputrescible source-separated recyclable
materials for the purpose of recycling.
COMMERCIAL USE
An activity involving the sale of goods or services carried
out for profit.
DESIGNATED RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials designated within the Warren County District
Solid Waste Management Plan to be source-separated for the purpose
of recycling. These materials include aluminum cans; computer paper;
glass bottles and jars, three colors (clear, green and brown); corrugated
cardboard; high-grade office paper, white, magazines and mixed paper;
newsprint; plastic bottles (PETE, clear and green, type No. 1, and
HDPE-clear and colored, type No. 2, and steel cans/tin cans.
ELECTRONIC WASTE
(To be included in those instances where a recycling program
has been, or will be, established for these materials.) A computer
central processing unit and associated hardware including keyboards,
modems, printers scanners and fax machines; a cathode ray tube, a
cathode ray tube device, a flat panel display or similar video display
device with a screen that is greater than four inches measured diagonally
and that contains one or more circuit boards, including a television
and cell phones.
HOTEL
A.
Any building, including but not limited to any related structure,
accessory building, and land appurtenant thereto, and any part thereof,
which contains 10 or more units of dwelling space or has sleeping
facilities for 25 or more persons and is kept, used, maintained, advertised
as, or held out to be a place where sleeping or dwelling accommodations
are available to transient or permanent guests.
B.
This definition shall also mean and include any hotel, motor
hotel, motel, or established guesthouse, which is commonly regarded
as a hotel, motor hotel, motel, or established guesthouse, as the
case may be, in the community in which it is located; provided, however,
that this definition shall not be construed to include any building
or structure defined as a multiple dwelling in this act, registered
as a multiple dwelling with the Commissioner of Community Affairs
as hereinafter provided, and occupied or intended to be occupied as
such, nor shall this definition be construed to include a rooming
house or a boarding house as defined in the "Rooming and Board House
Act of 1979," P.L. 1979, c.496 (N.J.S.A. 55:13B-1 et seq.) or, except
as otherwise set forth in P.L. 1987, c.270 (N.J.S.A. 55:13A-7.5, 55:13A-7.6,
55:13A-12.1, 55:13A-13.2), any retreat lodging facility, as defined
in this section.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
Any building or structure of complex of buildings in which
three or more dwelling units are rented or leased or offered for rental
or lease for residential purposes (see N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.13a) except
hotels, motels, or other guest houses serving transient or seasonal
guests as those terms are defined under subsection (j) of Section
3 of the "Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law," P.L. 1967, c.76 (N.J.S.A.
55:13A-1 et seq.);
MUNICIPAL RECYCLING COORDINATOR
The person or persons appointed by the municipal governing
body and who shall be authorized to enforce the provisions of this
chapter, and any rules and regulations which may be promulgated hereunder.
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) STREAM
All solid waste generated at residential, commercial, and
institutional establishments within the boundaries of the Municipality
of Liberty Township.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Those materials which would otherwise become solid waste,
and which may be collected, separated, or processed and returned to
the economic mainstream in the form of raw materials or products.
SOURCE-SEPARATION
The process by which recyclable materials are separated at
the point of generation by the generator thereof from solid waste
for the purposes of recycling.
The collection of recyclable material shall be in the manner
prescribed as follows:
A. All containers and brown paper bags containing recyclable materials
shall be placed, prior to collection, between the curb and the sidewalk,
or in the absence of curb and sidewalk, as near to the street as not
to constitute a danger, where such receptacles shall be readily accessible
to the collector without providing obstruction to pedestrians. The
owner or occupant of the premises shall keep all receptacles clean
and in safe handling condition.
B. All receptacles or dumpsters shall be maintained in a clean and safe
manner:.
The Recycling Coordinator, the Zoning Official, the Building
Inspector, or other code enforcement officer, the NJ State Police,
and the Warren County Department of Health are hereby individually
and severally empowered to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
An inspection may consist of sorting through containers and opening
of solid waste bags to detect, by sound or sight, the presence of
any recyclable material.
Any person, corporation, occupant, or entity that violates or
fails to comply with any provision of this chapter or any of the rules
and regulations promulgated hereunder shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punishable by a fine not less than $250 nor more than $1,000. Each
day for which a violation of this chapter occurs shall be considered
a separate offense. (Note: municipalities are empowered to incorporate
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:49-5 into their chapter.)