[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
The following definitions shall apply to this article.
(a)
PROOF OF COLLECTION SERVICE — A written record, log, bill,
or document evidencing receipt of service for the collection of solid
waste for the preceding month from a person lawfully engaging in private
solid waste collection services within the Town of Westfield.
(b)
REGULAR SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE — The scheduled pick-up
and removal of solid waste from residential, commercial, or institutional
premises located within the Town of Westfield at least once per week.
(c)
RESPONSIBLE SOLID WASTE GENERATOR — Any property owner, tenant,
or occupant of any single-family residential dwelling, or the owner
of any commercial or institutional building or structure located within
the Town of Westfield, who generates solid waste at those premises.
(d)
SOLID WASTE — Garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials
resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations,
and from domestic and community activities, and shall include all
other waste materials including liquids, except for solid animal and
vegetable wastes collected by swine producers licensed by the State
Department of Agriculture to collect, prepare and feed such wastes
to swine on their own farms.
(e)
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION — The activity related to pick-up and
transportation of solid waste from its source or location to a solid
waste facility or other destination.
(f)
SOLID WASTE CONTAINER — A receptacle, container or bag suitable
for the depositing of solid waste.
(g)
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL — The storage, treatment, utilization,
processing, or final disposal of solid waste.
(h)
SOLID WASTE FACILITIES — The plants, structures, and other
real and personal property acquired, constructed, and operated, or
to be acquired, constructed, and operated by any person pursuant to
the provisions of State law, including transfer stations, incinerators,
resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfill facilities, or other
plants for the disposal of solid waste, and all vehicles, equipment,
and other real and personal property, and rights therein and appurtenances
thereto, necessary, useful, and convenient for the collection or disposal
of solid waste in a sanitary manner.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
In the case of single-family residential housing, each responsible
solid waste generator, if he has not already done so, shall enter
into a contract for regular solid waste collection services with any
person lawfully providing private solid waste collection services
within the Town of Westfield.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
In the case of multi-family residential housing, each responsible
solid waste generator, if he has not already done so, shall enter
into a contract for regular solid waste collection service with any
person lawfully providing private solid waste collection services
within the Town of Westfield. It shall be the responsibility of the
owner of the multiple dwelling to provide a sufficient number of appropriate
solid waste containers for the deposit of nonrecyclable waste materials
to be disposed of as solid waste.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
In the case of any commercial or institutional building or structure
located within the Town of Westfield, each responsible solid waste
generator, if he has not already done so, shall enter into a contract
for regular solid waste collection service with any person lawfully
providing private solid waste collection services within the Town
of Westfield.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
Within six months of the effective date of this article, and
at least once every six months thereafter, the municipal government
shall notify all responsible solid waste generators in the Town of
Westfield of the requirements of this article, such notice may be
by mail, by newspaper notice, by posted notice, or by including same
with other official notifications periodically mailed to taxpayers
or homeowners, or by any combination thereof as the Town deems necessary
and appropriate.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
The Town Council may request every solid waste collector engaging
in private solid waste collection services within the Town of Westfield
who is registered pursuant to Sections 4 and 5 of P.L. 1970, c. 39
(C.13:1E-4 and 13:1E-5) and holds a certificate of public convenience
and necessity pursuant to Sections 7 and 10 of P.L. 1970, c. 40 (C.48:13A-6
and 48:13A-9) to provide all responsible solid waste generators with
the opportunity to contract for, on an individual basis, regular solid
waste collection services.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
Wherever the Town Council shall make a request that a solid
waste collector provide all responsible solid waste generators in
the Town of Westfield with the opportunity to contract for regular
solid waste collection services pursuant to this article, the Town
Council shall forthwith notify the board of public utilities of such
action by certified mail. In the event that a solid waste collector
refuses any request to provide responsible solid waste generators
with the opportunity to contract for regular solid waste collection
services pursuant to this article, the Town Council shall forthwith
notify the board of public utilities of such refusal by certified
mail.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
The health official, by regular mail, may at any time request
proof of collection service from any responsible solid waste generator
in the Town of Westfield. Failure to provide proof of service within
10 days of receipt of such written request shall be a violation by
the responsible solid waste generator of this article.
[G.O. No. 1568, § I]
The court may impose a fine for a violation in an amount not
more than $200 for each day that the proof of collection service remains
outstanding after 10 days of the receipt of the written request.
