No person may do any of the following:
A. Apply fertilizer when a runoff-producing rainfall is occurring or
predicted and/or when soils are saturated and a potential for fertilizer
movement off site exists.
B. Apply fertilizer to an impervious surface. Fertilizer inadvertently
applied to an impervious surface must be swept or blown back into
the target surface or returned to either its original or another appropriate
container for reuse.
C. Apply fertilizer within the buffer of any water body.
D. Apply fertilizer more than 15 days prior to the recognized growing
season in Zone 6b (northeastern, central and part of southern New
Jersey) March 1 to November 15, as identified by the USDA Plant Hardiness
Zones, found in the Standards for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
in New Jersey, July 1999.
All provisions contained within this chapter shall at all times
be subject to enforcement by the Police Department of the Township
of Jackson and by the Jackson Township Code Enforcement Officer, or
his or her duly designated agent of the Township of Jackson.
Any person violating provisions of this chapter shall be subject
to a fine in a minimum amount of $100 or imprisonment in the county
jail for a term not to exceed 90 days, or both, or community service
as ordered by the court, which shall not reduce the fine imposed by
more than 50%. Each and every violation of this chapter, or each day
that the provisions of this chapter are violated, shall be construed
as a separate and distinct violation thereof.