A.
Regulations.
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit, cause or permit to
be deposited, placed or parked any glass, refuse, waste, vegetation,
earth, sand, gravel, water, snow, ice, debris, waste material, foreign
substance, construction materials, equipment or object upon any street,
sidewalk or public property without authorization of the Town Board,
or its designee, pursuant to the provisions of this Code, or upon
any private property without the consent of the owner or lessee of
the property or the surface of any body of water within the Town.
Any person who deposits, causes or permits to be deposited, placed
or parked any such materials, equipment or objects upon any street,
sidewalk or property shall be responsible to properly mark or barricade
the area so as to prevent a safety hazard.
(2)
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, deposit
or cause to be deposited for collection, any waste or refuse not generated
within the corporate limits of the Town.
(3)
Any person, firm, corporation or association carrying on an enterprise
that results in litter being deposited on any road way or other public
way shall clean up the same within 24 hours of the time the same is
deposited or immediately if such litter or debris presents a traffic
or safety hazard. If any such litter is subject to being blown about,
it shall be picked up immediately. If any such litter is likely to
attract animals or vermin, such litter shall be picked up immediately.
(4)
If any person, firm, corporation or association fails to pick up
any litter as required by this article within the time specified,
the Town shall arrange to have the same picked up by Town crews or
by private enterprise. Applicable bidding procedures shall be used
for any arrangement for the use of private enterprise to pick up such
litter. The entire expense of picking up such litter, together with
an additional charge of 20% for administrative expenses, shall be
charged to the person, firm, corporation or association that did the
littering. If such sum is not promptly paid, steps shall be taken,
with the advice of the Town Attorney's office, to collect the
same. This charge shall be in addition to any forfeiture or other
penalty for violation of this section.
(5)
It shall be unlawful to deliver any handbills or advertising material
to any premises in the Town except by being handed to the recipient,
placed on the porch, stoop or entranceway of the building or firmly
affixed to a building so as to prevent any such articles from being
blown about, becoming scattered or in any way causing litter.
(6)
It shall be unlawful to leave any handbills, advertising material
or newspapers unattended in any street, alley, public building or
other public place, provided that this shall not prohibit the sale
of newspapers in vending machines.
(7)
No person shall place any advertisement upon any public property,
any roadway or public ground or upon any private property, except
by the permission of the owner thereof, but this section shall not
apply to the posting of notices required by law.
No person shall leave or permit to remain outside of any dwelling,
building or other structure, or within any unoccupied or abandoned
building, dwelling or other structure under his control in a place
accessible to children any abandoned, unattended or discarded freezer,
refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or lid,
snap lock or other locking device which may not be released from the
inside without first removing said door or lid, snap lock or other
locking device from said ice box, refrigerator or container, unless
such container is displayed for sale on the premises of the owner
or his agent and is securely locked or fastened.
No person, except employees of the solid waste and recycling
facility while performing their duties, shall enter into or remove
any material from the recycling or paper bins located at the solid
waste and recycling center, or shall any person remove or take any
material or scrap from the scrap pile located at or on the premises
of the solid waste and recycling center.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. II)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A public right-of-way, which normally affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to abutting property.
Includes, but is not limited to, unloading, throwing away,
discarding, emptying, abandoning, discharging, burning, spreading
onto open fields, land spreading or burying waste, garbage, refuse,
or sludge on, into, or under any property or lands whether publicly
or privately owned within the Town of Rome.
Any building which has the primary purpose of human habitation
and which contains one or two dwelling units.
Includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean
either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation,
public or quasi-public corporation, or combination of these who shall
hold title to a building, structure or property, or who shall be in
actual possession of, or have charge, or control of building, structure,
or property as agent of the title holder, or who shall be trustee
or guardian of the estate or person of the title holder.
Includes a corporation, firm partnership, association, organization
and any other group acting as a unit as well as individuals, including
a personal representative, receiver or other representative appointed
according to law. Whenever the term "person" is used in any section
of this article prescribing a penalty or fine, as to partnerships
or associations, the work shall include the partners or members thereof,
and as to corporations, shall include the officers, agents or members
thereof who are responsible for any violation of such section.
A process by which waste products, such as metal cans, scrap
metal, paper or glass are reduced to raw materials for transformation
into new and different products. For the purpose of this article,
"recycling" does not include the reclamation of sewage sludge, food
wastes and other organic materials.
Combustible and noncombustible discarded material including,
but not limited to, trash, rubbish, paper, wood, metal, glass, plastic,
rubber, cloth, ashes, litter and street rubbish, industrial waste,
dead animal tissue, blood or parts, mine tailings, gravel pit and
quarry spoils, and material and debris resulting from construction
or demolition.
Sewage treatment residue, residue which represents waste
material generated from the industrial or commercial slaughtering
of farm animals which residue is in any form whatsoever, whether solid
or semisolid or liquid.
The Town of Rome, Adams County, Wisconsin, or any duly appointed
designate thereof, including, but not limited to, the Town Board and
Town committees.
The present governing body of the Town or any successors
to the legislative power of said body, or any duly appointed designate
thereof.
Garbage, refuse, and all other discarded or salvageable material,
including materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural
operations and from domestic use and public service activities.
