[Adopted 7-1-1958 by G.O. No. 37-1958]
A.
When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the future, and words in the singular number include
the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely
directory.
B.
CITY
CLEAN FILL
COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS
INCINERATOR ASH
LIVE GARBAGE
NONBURNABLE MATERIALS
PERSON
STREET
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words
and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein:
The City of Yonkers.
Any solid substance which does not contain vegetable or animal
matter or other ingredients subject to decay.
The Commissioner of Public Works of the City of Yonkers.
Carbonized or burned refuse as a result of incinerator operations.
Any animal or vegetable matter subject to decay.
Any solid substances that are nonflammable.
Any person, firm, partnership or corporation other than the
City of Yonkers.
Any street, highway, sidewalk, alley, avenue or other public
way or public grounds of the City of Yonkers.
The City shall be and it hereby is authorized to deposit in
a designated landfill project clean fill, nonburnable materials and
incinerator ash. It shall not be permitted to and is forbidden to
deposit in such projects live garbage.
No person shall be permitted to deposit in any City landfill
project any thing or things other than clean fill, and he or she may
do so only after a permit therefor has been secured from the Commissioner
of Public Works.
The fee for any person to deposit clean fill in any City landfill
project shall be at the rate of $0.25 per cubic yard, which sum shall
be payable to the Comptroller of the City of Yonkers prior to the
issuance of any permit therefor.
Each person applying for a permit shall file with the Commissioner
of Public Works a policy of liability insurance with limits of not
less than $25,000/$50,000 covering injury to persons and not less
than $5,000 covering damage to property, covering each and every vehicle
engaged in the disposition of landfill, which policy shall be endorsed
to indemnify and save harmless the City of Yonkers from any and all
claims for personal injury or property damage arising out of the issuance
of such permit. Each applicant shall also file with the Commissioner
of Public Works evidence, in the form of a certificate of insurance,
that proper workers' compensation insurance is in force and effect
covering each and every person employed by them in the operation of
the disposition of clean fill.
The vehicles to be used by any person desirous of disposing
of clean fill in any City landfill project shall be subject to inspection
and approval by the Commissioner of Public Works and shall be so constructed
as to make impossible the spilling of such fill through City streets.
The Commissioner of Public Works shall have the power and authority
to suspend or revoke any permit granted by him for any violation of
the provisions of this chapter upon 10 days' notice, in writing,
to the permittee.
