[Adopted 9-26-1988 by Ord. No. 99.2 (Ch. 307.000 of the 1999 Compiled
Ordinances)]
The City of Bridgman hereby determines that it is necessary
to provide regulations governing the storage, collection, handling,
transporting and disposal of all the garbage, trash and rubbish and
other waste materials within the City of Bridgman in order to ensure
and protect the public health and safety.
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
BUILDERS' OR CONTRACTORS' REFUSE
Includes all form of refuse generated as a result of building
construction, alterations or repairs made by contractors or tradesmen.
This type of materials is expressly excluded under this article and
the collection and disposal of this type of material shall remain
the liability of the contractor or owner.
GARBAGE
Includes animal, fruit and vegetable waste materials resulting
from the handling, preparation, cleaning and consumption of foods
and foodstuffs in kitchens, stores, markets, hotels, restaurants and
other places where food is stored, sold, cooked, or consumed.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, copartnership or corporation.
POLLUTED WASTE
Those pollutants or combination of pollutants, including
disease-causing agents which upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation
or assimilation into any organism, either directly or indirectly from
the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will,
on the basis of information available to the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America, or
the Director of the Department of Natural Resources of the State of
Michigan, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer,
genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions or deformations, in
such organisms or their offspring.
TRASH OR RUBBISH
As used herein shall be deemed to include all waste materials
classified as follows:
A.
Waste material resulting from the usual routine of housekeeping,
except garbage, including, but not by way of limitation, such articles
as tin cans, tinware, ashes, porcelainware, bottles, glassware, earthenware,
small automobile parts and other metallic substances ordinarily discarded
by householders.
B.
Newspapers (if tied in bundles), cardboard boxes (if collapsed
and tied), rags, leather, rubber goods and wastepaper (if bundled).
YARD WASTE
A.
Consists of tree and shrubbery trimmings, grass clippings, leaves
and general yard and garden waste materials and shall be limited to
the quantities allowed for normal waste disposal under this article.
B.
Excess yard waste shall remain the liability of the owner.
No owner, tenant or lessee of any public or private premises
shall be permitted to accumulate upon his premises any garbage, trash
or rubbish, refuse or waste materials, including yard wastes, unless
it is placed and maintained in containers for regular collection and
stored as follows:
A. Containers for garbage. All containers used for garbage shall be
of substantial construction, provided with handles and a tightly fitted
cover. They shall have a capacity of not more than 20 gallons and
shall not weigh more than 50 pounds when filled.
B. Broken containers. Containers that are broken or fail to meet the
requirements of this article may be classified as rubbish and, after
notice to the owner, collected as such.
C. Dumpsters. Multifamily units, commercial and industrial properties
shall be permitted to use self-loading containers, provided the same
are of substantial construction and designed to prevent the scattering
of materials stored therein. All self-loading containers shall be
located in a screened storage area accessible for disposal, but out
of the sight of public access.
D. Storage. All containers used for disposal of waste shall be stored
in screened areas not visible from the public right-of-way.
The following provisions shall apply to any rubbish in the City
of Bridgman:
A. Burning and burying. No person shall throw garbage, trash or rubbish
upon the ground or bury the same on any premises, public or private,
nor shall any person burn any garbage, trash, or rubbish without a
permit from the Fire Chief. Nothing in this article shall prohibit
the proper composting of organics by private citizens. "Organics"
shall be defined as grass clippings, leaves, brush, branches, other
landscape trimmings, clean wood, and some plant-derived food processing
by-products and food-soiled paper products.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B. Depositing and scattering. No person, firm or corporation shall deposit
or scatter any garbage, trash or rubbish on any public street, alley
or private or public property anywhere in the City of Bridgman.
C. Cleanliness. It shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, lessee
or occupant of any residence, apartment building, commercial or industrial
building, having garbage, trash or rubbish material to provide for
and have within said building or on said premises, storage containers
of sufficient size to handle the accumulation of garbage, trash or
rubbish on the premises during the intervals between collections of
same. In all cases where the collections of excess quantities of commercial
or industrial garbage, trash or rubbish are not taken care of by the
City, such accumulations shall be promptly disposed of by private
contract to the end that the premises and grounds are always kept
in a clean, neat, sanitary and orderly condition.
Transportation of all garbage, trash and rubbish through streets,
alleys or thoroughfares within the City limits shall be handled in
such manner so as not to create a nuisance, and all collection vehicles
shall have completely enclosed, watertight bodies.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions
of this article shall, in addition to the other provisions of this
article, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by
a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in the county jail
not to exceed 90 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each
day of violation continued to exist shall constitute a separate offense.