[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.