[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 3; G.O. No. 999,
§ 1; G.O. No. 1457, § I]
(a)
No person shall throw or deposit or permit, cause, allow or suffer
any litter, garbage, refuse or rubbish to be thrown or deposited on
any street, sidewalk or public place except in the receptacles provided
for this purpose by the Town unless such deposit is authorized by
ordinance as in the case of leaves or recyclable materials. Persons
placing litter, garbage, refuse or rubbish in receptacles so provided
by the Town shall do so in such a manner that it will not be blown
onto the sidewalk or street. No person shall use such receptacles
for the deposit of household or commercial refuse or rubbish.
(b)
No person shall throw or deposit or permit, cause, allow or suffer
any litter, garbage, refuse or rubbish to be thrown or deposited upon
any private property owned by another, except with the permission
of the owner or person in legal possession of said premises and except
in receptacles provided for the collection and removal of such litter,
garbage, refuse or rubbish in a manner permitted by law, regulation
or ordinance.
(c)
Except as otherwise provided herein, no person shall throw or deposit
or permit, cause, allow or suffer any litter, garbage, refuse or rubbish
to be thrown or deposited upon any private property owned by such
person or to which such person has the legal right of possession,
except in receptacles provided for the collection and removal of such
litter, garbage, refuse or rubbish in a manner permitted by law, regulation
or ordinance. Notwithstanding any provision of the Town code to the
contrary, an owner of private property or a person having the legal
right of possession of same shall be permitted to deposit and/or dispose
of vegetation waste generated on that property by composting or otherwise
on the premises but not by burning.
(d)
No person shall sweep, shake or throw litter of any sort including
dirt or sweepings from a store or other place of business on to any
public or private street or sidewalk, lot, place, air shaft, driveway,
areaway, yard, court, drain or catch basin or permit, cause, or suffer
such litter to be thrown or deposited on or in same.
(e)
No person, whether a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw
or deposit litter upon any street, sidewalk, or other public or private
property.
[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 7]
No person shall obstruct or close any gutter, sewer, drainage
pipe, catch basin or watercourse.
[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 9]
No vehicle from which any of the contents thereof is being dropped
or scattered on the roadway shall be driven or drawn along any street
or highway.
[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 10]
No person shall engage, in any street, in any practice, sport
or exercise having a tendency to annoy passers-by.
[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 13; G.O. No.
534; G.O. No. 621; amended 11-21-2017 by G.O. No. 2089]
The owner, tenant or occupant of any premises abutting any street
shall remove all snow from the sidewalks abutting any portion of said
premises within 24 hours after the snow has ceased to fall. Where
ice is frozen to the sidewalk, it shall be removed or shall be treated
with salt or other ice melt product.
[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 16]
No person shall injure, break or destroy any street or guide
sign, lamppost, lamp or light bulb or appurtenances thereof standing
on any public street or place.
[1932 Revision, Title 4, Ch. 1, § 24]
Any person who shall pile any material in any public street,
or cause the obstruction thereof by any structure, excavation, embankment
or rubbish heap in the prosecution of either private work for which
the necessary permit may have been obtained or public work under the
contract with the Town or county or under any other circumstances
shall erect and maintain about such obstruction proper barriers and
guards by day and by night, and shall maintain a sufficient number
of lights thereon every night from sunset to sunrise.
