As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
FILLING STATION
A place where gasoline, oil and services for automobiles
and other motor vehicles are sold, either at wholesale or retail prices.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined in this chapter,
and all other waste material which, if thrown, deposited or stored
as prohibited in this chapter, tends to create a danger to public
health, safety and welfare or create an eyesore.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure designed
or used, either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes,
whether inhabited, temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant.
It shall include any yard, ground, walk, driveway, porch, steps or
vestibule belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building
or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any street, sidewalk, alley or other public way and any and
all public parks, squares, grounds and buildings.
PUBLIC STRUCTURE OR BUILDING
Any structure or building owned or operated by the federal,
state or county government or any governmental agency.
REFUSE
All putrescible solid wastes, except body wastes, including
garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned
automobiles and parts thereof, scrap metal, junk, machinery and solid
market and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard,
tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, beddings, crockery,
building materials and similar materials.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter, except that this
chapter shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized private
receptacles for collection.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Township any waste materials or rubbish, as defined in §
207-1, but such person shall keep the sidewalk in front of his/her business premises free of litter. All persons operating filling stations or other mercantile establishments where commodities are sold between any curb area of the Township and the office building or equipment from which such commodities are dispensed shall maintain at all times covered receptacles, into which all waste materials and rubbish may be deposited by customers, employees or other persons.
The owner, agent, lessee, tenant, occupant or other person who
manages or controls a building or lot shall be jointly or severally
responsible for keeping the sidewalk, flagging, curbstone and the
air shafts, areaways, backyards, courts, parking lots and alleys free
from litter, whether the property is owned by such person or not,
except that the owner or person in control of private property may
maintain authorized private receptacles for collection and removal
of same in such a manner that the litter shall not be unsightly and
detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street,
catch basin or other public place within the Township the accumulation
of litter from any public or private driveway. Persons owning or occupying
property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of
litter.
No person shall drive or move any truck or any vehicle within
the Township, unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to
prevent any load or content of litter from being blown or deposited
upon any street, alley or other public place.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw
or deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the
Township.
No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit in
the Township any litter, handbill or other object.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill, newspaper, paper, periodical, magazine, circular, card or
pamphlet in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or
continuously uninhabited or vacant.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill, newspaper, paper, periodical, magazine,
circular, card or pamphlet upon any private premises if requested
by anyone thereon not to do so or if there is placed on such premises
in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof a sign bearing
the words "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement"
or any similar notice indicating in any manner that the occupant of
such premises does not desire to be molested or have their right of
privacy disturbed or to have any such material left upon such premises.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper
or device calculated to attract the attention of the public to any
lamppost, public utility pole or shade tree or upon any public structure
or building, except as may be authorized by the owners thereof or
required by law.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill, newspaper, paper, periodical, magazine, circular, card or
pamphlet in or upon any vehicle, provided that a person may hand out
or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial
handbill, newspaper, paper, periodical, magazine, circular, card or
pamphlet to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
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.
No person shall tamper with, take or remove any of the contents
from any public or private receptacle containing garbage, refuse,
rubbish, junk or any other waste material which has been placed or
deposited along any public highway, street, lane or alleyway for collection
by the Township or any of its agents or servants.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be liable, upon conviction thereof, to the penalty stated in Chapter
1, Article
III.