[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Newtown 3-8-2021 by Ord. No.
2021-01.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former Ch. 100,
Litter, adopted 9-28-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-03.
This chapter shall be known as the "Newtown Township Litter Ordinance" or, interchangeably, "Chapter 100, Litter, of the Code of the Township of Newtown."
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, drop, discard
or otherwise place any litter of any nature upon public or private
property other than in a litter receptacle, or having done so, to
allow such litter to remain.
Whenever any litter is thrown or discarded or allowed to fall
from a vehicle or boat in violation of this article, the operator
or owner, or both, of the motor vehicle or boat shall also be deemed
to have violated this article.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any public place the
accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public
place or private sidewalk, premises, or driveway. Persons owning or
occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises
free of litter.
Every person owning or occupying a place of business engaged
in the sale, distribution or service of any food or food products
for immediate consumption shall maintain authorized private receptacles
for collection in a manner that will prevent litter from being carried
or deposited by the elements in any public place or upon private property.
No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation or
other business entity, shall throw, deposit, hand out or cause to
distribute any commercial handbill, defined in this chapter as a printed
advertisement or other notice distributed by hand, in or upon any
public place or private premises within the Township, except by handing
the commercial handbill personally to an individual at such public
place or private premises if the individual has first personally affirmatively
indicated a willingness to receive the distribution of the commercial
handbill.
No person shall throw, deposit, hand out or distribute any noncommerical
handbill, defined in this chapter, as a printed advertisement or other
notice distributed by hand in or upon any public place or private
premises within the Township, except by handing the noncommercial
handbill personally to an individual at such public place or premises
if the individual has first personally affirmatively indicated a willingness
to receive the distribution of the commercial handbill; or by placing
the noncommercial handbill securely at the private premises in question
in such a manner that it will neither be blown away nor fall to the
ground.
No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any
vehicle. This shall not be construed to prevent any person from distributing,
without charge to the receiver, a handbill to any occupant of a vehicle
who is willing to accept it personally.
For each violation of this chapter, the violator shall be fined
not more than $1,000 plus all court costs, plus reasonable attorneys'
fees incurred by the Township as a result of the violation. Each day
the violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. Such
fines or penalties shall be collected in the same manner as fines
or penalties are generally collected by the Township. The provisions
of this section are in addition to any other remedy provided by this
chapter.
