[Ord. No. 19-70, § 1]
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Morris
Plains Anti-Litter Ordinance."
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 2]
As used in this Article:
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
PARK
A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center
or any other public area in the Borough owned or used by the Borough.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure, whether
inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and
shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule
or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling house, building
or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, public or semipublic parking
lots, boulevards, alleys or other public ways, and any and all public
parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including
but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, human body waste, junk, abandoned automobiles and solid market
construction and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as but not limited to paper, newspaper,
advertising papers or flyers, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin
cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar
materials.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 3]
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street,
sidewalk or other public place within the Borough except in public
receptacles, in private receptacles for collection or in the official
Borough dump.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 4]
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in 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
places or upon private property.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 7]
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw
or deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the
Borough or upon private property.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 9]
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the
Borough 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 such litter shall be
carried away from the park by the person responsible for its presence
and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided herein.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 10]
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond,
lake, stream, bay or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere
within the Borough.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 11]
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any private property
within the Borough, whether owned by such person or not, except that
the owner or person in control of private property may maintain 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.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 12]
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter. Provided, however,
that this section shall not prohibit the storage of litter in private
receptacles for collection.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 13]
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant
private property within the Borough whether owned by such person or
not.
[Ord. No. 19-70, § 15]
The provisions of section
1-9 of these Revised Ordinances shall be applicable to this article.