[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Winslow 8-28-70 as Ord. No. 0-11-70; amended 2-28-79 by Ord. No. 0-5-79; 6-67-84 by Ord. No. 0-11-84;
4-26-89 by Ord. No. 0-22-89; 6-22-93
by Ord. No. 0-16-93. Amended in
its entirety 12-12-10 by Ord. No. 0-2010-038. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
In the interpretation of this Article, the following words and
phrases, unless the context shows another sense to be intended, shall
be held to have the meanings hereinafter stated:
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as such are defined herein,
and all other waste materials which are thrown or deposited as herein
prohibited and tend to create a danger to the public health, safety
and welfare.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure designed
or used either wholly or in part for residential purposes, whether
inhabited or temporarily or continuously inhabited or vacant, and
shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, step, vestibule
or mailbox belonging to or appurtenant to such dwelling, house or
building or other structure.
Includes all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, rights-of-way,
alleys or other public walkways and all public parks, squares, spaces,
docks, grounds and buildings.
Decomposing organic matter usually composed of rotten or
foul-smelling solid waste,
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body
wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned automobiles and boats and solid market and industrial
waste, specifically including, but not limited to, abandoned furniture,
household equipment, scrap building materials, scrap lawn and garden
tools and machinery and other such similar items.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrapping, cigarettes, cigars
and tobacco wastes, cardboard, tin cans, yard, garden or lawn clippings,
leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar material.
Any garbage, refuse and other discarded materials from industrial,
commercial and agricultural operation and from domestic and community
activities, and includes all other waste material, including liquids.
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage
facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
A.
The spilling, dumping or disposal of any litter, refuse, solid waste
or putrescible materials other than stormwater to the separate municipal
storm sewer system operated by the Township of Winslow is prohibited.
The spilling, dumping, or disposal of any litter, refuse solid waste
or putrescible materials other than stormwater in such a manner as
to cause the discharge of pollutants to the separate municipal storm
sewer is also prohibited.
B.
Exceptions to prohibition.
(1)
Water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources.
(2)
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g., infiltration, crawl space or basement
sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising groundwaters).
(3)
Air-conditioning condensate (excluding contact and noncontact cooling
water).
(4)
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn watering runoff).
(5)
Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands, water reservoir
discharges and diverted stream flows.
(6)
Residential car washing water and residential swimming pool discharges.
(7)
Sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
(8)
Flows from firefighting activities.
(9)
Equipment used in the application of salt and de-icing materials
immediately following salt and de-icing applications. Prior to rinsing
with clean water, all residual salt and de-icing materials must be
removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum extent practicable
using dry cleaning methods (e.g., shoveling and sweeping). Recovered
materials are to be returned to storage for reuse or properly discarded.
Littering in public or private places prohibited. No person
shall sweep, throw, deposit or dump any garbage, litter, refuse, rubbish,
solid waste or other waste material on any street or sidewalk or any
public or private premises, whether vacant or not, except in public
or private receptacles for the collection of such materials. No person
shall use any private receptacle which is owned or rented by another
without the express permission of the person who owns or rents the
private receptacle.
Any person found to have accidentally caused the improper disposal
of any liquids or solids through any incidental spills, automobile
accidents or otherwise, provided that said spill does not concern
hazardous or toxic waste otherwise controlled, by State statute, shall
have forty-eight (48) hours from the time of such accident to take
corrective action to fully clean up the accidental spill. In the event
that said person fails to take the necessary corrective action to
clean up the accidental spill, the other provisions of this Article
shall take full force and effect as if the spill were not of an accidental
nature.
Maintenance of property from litter. No person shall establish,
maintain or permit any dump or area for the disposal of garbage, litter,
refuse, rubbish or solid waste or other waste material of any nature
or kind on any private premises or public place located within the
Township of Winslow. The owner or person in control of any private
premises shall at all times maintain the premises free of garbage,
litter, refuse, rubbish or solid waste or other waste material, with
the exception of storage of such materials in approved receptacles
designated for collection.
All provisions contained within this Article shall at all times
be subject to enforcement by the Police Department of the Township
of Winslow and by the Winslow Township Code Enforcement Officer or
his or her duly designated agent of the Township of Winslow.
A representative of either the Police Department or the Code
Enforcement Department of the Township of Winslow is authorized and
empowered to order the immediate removal and proper disposal of any
garbage, litter, refuse, rubbish or solid waste or any waste material.
In the event that such material is not immediately removed, either
department is authorized to notify the appropriate owner of any private
premises or vacant land, or the tenant or agent of such owner, or
the person or persons responsible for the disposal of any garbage,
litter, refuse, rubbish, solid waste or other waste material upon
any public property, to properly remove and dispose of such material
within seven (7) days after the receipt of notice. Any written notice
shall be by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested,
addressed to the responsible person or his or her agent at his or
her last known address or serviced personally upon such responsible
person. This section shall apply to cleanup of the affected property
only and shall not preclude enforcement of any other section of this
Article.
Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of owner, tenant or agent
so notified to dispose properly of said garbage or litter within ten
(10) days after the date of such notice or in the event that said
notice is returned to the township by the Post Office because of an
inability to make delivery thereof, provided that the notice was properly
addressed to the last known address of the owner, tenant or agent,
the Code Enforcement Officer or his duly designated agent is authorized
and empowered to pay for disposing of such litter or to order its
disposal by the township, after obtaining the appropriate authorization
from the Township Administrator. When the township has effected the
removal of garbage or litter or has paid for its removal, the actual
cost thereof shall be chargeable to the property owner responsible
for the removal and disposal by lien or any other lawful means.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Article
shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed
one thousand dollars ($1,000.) or by imprisonment in the County Jail
for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both.
Waste management facilities shall only be permitted in the Pinelands
Area in accordance with the standards set forth in N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.
Use of the following substances is prohibited in the Pinelands
to the extent that such use will result in direct or indirect introduction
of such substances to any surface or groundwater or any land:
A.
Septic tank cleaners.
B.
Waste oil.
C.
No hazardous or toxic substances, including hazardous wastes, shall
be stored, transferred, processed, discharged, disposed or otherwise
used in the Pinelands Area. The land application of waste or waste
derived materials is prohibited in the Pinelands Area, except as expressly
authorized in N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.79.
