By the adoption of this article, the Town Board of the Town
of Collins declares its intent to regulate the operation within the
Town of Collins of land now used or hereafter acquired or leased by
the Town of Collins for the purpose of a transfer station for refuse
disposal and to prohibit the dumping of refuse in this Town except
at such site or sites.
This chapter shall apply to any lands now used or hereafter
acquired or leased by said Town for the purpose of a transfer station
for refuse.
All garbage and trash transported, brought and/or carried to
the transfer station for refuse of the Town of Collins shall be contained
securely, bundled and battened down or otherwise secured within the
vehicles transporting the same to prevent the accidental discharge
thereof.
No lands, other than lands of a public dump, dumping ground
or transfer station heretofore or hereafter established by this Town,
shall be used as a dump, dumping ground, refuse disposal area, landfill
site or transfer station in the Town of Collins.
The use of land by anyone, even by the owner or anyone acting
with or under his or her permission, as a private dump, dumping ground,
refuse disposal area, landfill site or transfer station, is prohibited
and the use of said land for the deposit, burying or disposal in any
manner whatsoever of municipal solid waste or hazardous waste is also
hereby prohibited. Household compost piles, disposal of manure in
connection with farming operations, and land spreading operations
pursuant to a permit of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation are excepted.
Any person violating any provision of this article shall be subject to the penalties set forth in Chapter
1, General Provisions §
1-3, of the Code of the Town of Collins.