For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words
and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein:
AIRCRAFT
Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or
designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The word "aircraft"
shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
BOAT
Any craft designed to be occupied by one or more persons
and used on, in or under water.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
HANDBILL
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or
any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any
matter of literature not included in the definition of a newspaper.
LITTER
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which
has been discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber,
paper or other natural or synthetic material, or any combination thereof,
including but not limited to any bottle, jar or can or any top, cap
or detachable tab of any bottle, jar or can; any unlighted cigarette,
cigar, match or any flaming or glowing material; or any garbage, trash,
refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste;
newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers, or
other packaging or construction material; but does not include the
waste of the primary processes of mining or other extraction processes,
logging, saw milling, farming or manufacturing.
[Amended 6-29-1993 by Ord. No. 15-93]
NEWSPAPER
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general
law, any newspaper duly entered with the United States Postal Service
in accordance with federal statute or regulation and any newspaper
filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general
law and, in addition thereto, includes any periodical or current magazine
regularly published with not fewer than four issues per year and sold
to the public.
PARK
A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center
or any other public area in the Township owned or used by the Township
and devoted to active or passive recreation.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure designed
or used, either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes,
whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant,
and includes 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, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds,
buildings and bodies of water.
RECYCLE BIN
A container designed and utilized for the accumulation of
recyclable materials, such as glass, newspaper, cardboard and aluminum
cans.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body
wastes), including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, street
cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and
industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes, 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.
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.