[1997 Code § 300-1]
This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Refuse
Collection Service Regulations of the City of Absecon City."
[1997 Code § 300-2]
For the purposes of this Article, the following terms, phrases,
words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein.
When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular
number, and words in the singular number include the plural number.
The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
CHAIRMAN
The Chairman of the Committee or his duly authorized representative.
COMBUSTIBLE WASTE
Yard trimmings, rags, waste wood or cardboard and other combustible
waste solids of a nonvolatile or explosive nature.
COMMITTEE
The Council Committee on Public Health, Safety and Sanitation.
GARBAGE
All refuse, entrails and waste of animals and fish and all
vegetable matter which has been or was intended to be used as food;
all clam, oyster, crab and lobster shells; and all other items that
are construed as garbage by the rules, regulations or specifications
of the New Jersey State Board of Health.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, including
garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and market,
commercial and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard,
tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and
similar materials.
TRADE WASTE
The by-products of building contractors or demolition contractors
engaged in the business of constructing homes or other buildings or
structures or the demolition of buildings or structures or those engaged
in the clearing of land for the purpose of preparing the same for
use as the site for a building or structure or for roadways or similar
purposes.
[1997 Code § 300-4]
All refuse accumulated in the City shall be collected, conveyed
and disposed of by the collector under the supervision of the Committee.
The Committee shall have the authority to make necessary and reasonable
rules and regulations concerning the days and hours of collection,
type and location of waste containers and such other matters pertaining
to the collection, conveyance and disposal of refuse, trade wastes,
body wastes and other materials as it shall find necessary and to
change and modify the same after notice.
[1997 Code § 300-8; Ord. No. 13-2006 § 1]
Each owner or occupier of premises in the City of Absecon desiring
to have his refuse collected by the collector shall place same in
proper containers at the curbline in front of his premises not later
than 7:00 a.m., prevailing time the day of the collection, nor earlier
than 6:00 p.m. on the days prior to those designated for collection
of refuse as designated by the Committee. Each owner or occupier of
premises in the City of Absecon placing containers in any public area
for collection shall remove all such containers from the public area(s)
not later than 24 hours subsequent to the date designated for collection
by the Committee. Any person, firm, or corporation which violates
any of the provisions of this section or any regulations promulgated
pursuant thereto shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000,
with each day for which any such violation shall persist to be considered
an additional violation.
[1997 Code § 300-10]
Ownership of refuse set out for collection or deposited on the
sanitary landfill site shall be vested in the City.
[1997 Code § 300-11]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Article
shall, upon conviction, be punished for each offense by a fine not
to exceed $500 or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days
in the County jail, or both.