No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw,
distribute or deposit litter upon any street, vehicle or other public
place within the Town or upon private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within
the Town unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent
any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any
street, alley or other public place.
[Amended 2-8-1977]
In addition to any other remedy for an offense against this
article, any person committing an offense against this article or
any provision or section thereof shall be guilty of a violation punishable
by a fine not to exceed $750 or imprisonment for not more than 15
days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute litter in or upon
any street, sidewalk, vehicle or other public place within the Town
except in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles
for collection.
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 or upon private property.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street
or other public place within the Town the accumulation of litter from
any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway.
Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk adjacent
to their premises free of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep
into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within
the Town the accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from
any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying
places of business within the Town shall keep the sidewalk adjacent
to their business premises free of litter.
No person shall throw, distribute or deposit litter in any park
within the Town except in public receptacles and in such a manner
that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited
by the elements upon any part of the park or upon any street or other
public place. Where public receptacles are not provided, all litter
shall be carried away from the park by the person responsible for
its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided in this
article.
No person shall throw or deposit litter into any fountain, pond,
lake, stream, channel, bay or any other body of water in a park or
elsewhere within the town.
No person shall throw, distribute or deposit litter on any occupied
private property within the Town, whether owned by such person or
not, except that the owner or person in control of private property
may maintain authorized private receptacles for collection in such
a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited
by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or
upon any private property.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter; however, this section
shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized private receptacles
for collection.
No person shall throw, distribute or deposit litter on any open
or vacant private property within the Town, whether owned by such
person or not.
[Added 8-15-1978]
A.
The owner of a parking lot with a capacity of less than 100 parking
spaces and which serves any commercial establishment, other than a
fast-food restaurant, shall install one authorized litter receptacle
for every 40 feet of building frontage or fraction thereof.
B.
The owner of a parking lot with a capacity of less than 100 parking
spaces and which serves a fast-food restaurant shall install one authorized
litter receptacle for every 10 parking spaces or fraction thereof.
C.
The owner of a parking lot with a capacity of more than 100 parking spaces, in addition to complying with Subsection A herein, shall install one authorized litter receptacle for every 100 parking spaces or fraction thereof in addition to the first 100 parking spaces.
D.
The requirements of Subsection C as outlined herein shall be waived upon the filing of an affidavit with the Town Clerk which affirms that the commercial establishment maintains and sweeps its parking lot once every 24 hours or has retained a contractor to do the same.
E.
Authorized litter receptacles shall be evenly distributed throughout
the paved area of a parking lot so as to be easily accessible to users
of such parking lots. An authorized litter receptacle shall be affixed
to an island, mall, pole or stanchion, located in the paved area of
the parking lot or if such permanent fixtures do not exist, on a private
walkway located adjacent to the parking lot.
[Added 8-15-1978]
A.
An authorized litter receptacle required to be installed by this
article shall be maintained in working order and shall be emptied
within 24 hours after it is filled to capacity.
B.
Authorized litter receptacles which are not made of metal shall be
securely fastened wherever possible to an island, mall, pole or stanchion
or otherwise weighted at the bottom so as to remain upright when empty.
C.
It is not the intent of this article to require the installation
of litter receptacles where safety to pedestrians or vehicles will
be endangered as a result of the installation of such receptacles.
D.
An authorized litter receptacle shall have a suitable covering to
prevent litter from direct exposure to weather precipitation.
E.
An authorized litter receptacle required to be installed by this
article shall be emptied at least once in each week and shall not
be permitted to overflow.
[Added 8-15-1978; amended 9-11-1979; 3-7-2023 by L.L. No. 4-2023]
A violation of any provision in §§ 201-63 and 201-64 shall constitute an offense. Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. Such an offense shall be punishable by a fine in accordance with the following schedule:
