[Added by Ord. No. 2020-12, 11/5/2020]
1. 
During the fall of each year, the Township shall announce that curbside collection of leaves will be starting and publish schedules for when the collection will be made in various portions of the Township. The announcement will be made by publishing notices in a newspaper of general circulation in the area. During these periods, all persons who gather leaves shall place them at the curbside for collection. Garden residues, trimmings of shrubs, bushes and trees, and any other municipal waste shall not be included in the leaves placed at the curbside.
2. 
The announcement of schedules for leaf collection may include restrictions on parking along streets included for collection. Such parking restrictions may also be posted by temporary signs along the affected streets.
3. 
It shall be required that commercial, institutional and municipal establishments generating leaf waste have a collection service.
4. 
During all times of the year, persons who gather garden residues, grass clippings, leaves, and trimmings from shrubs, bushes, and trees in the Township must separate these materials from other municipal waste and deposit them at a public drop-off center established by the Township in accordance with rules posted at the center and labeling of storage facilities there. Branches and limbs shall be broken or cut into lengths not exceeding four feet.
A. 
The yard waste drop-off site shall only be available to residents of Upper Macungie Township to utilize for dropping off yard waste and picking up mulch materials. Commercial operators are strictly prohibited from utilizing the site.
B. 
Permitted Materials. The only materials that residents may drop off at the yard waste site are those as set forth in the definition of "yard waste."
C. 
Prohibited Materials. The following items shall be prohibited from being dropped off at the yard waste drop-off site: construction material; trash; food waste; diseased plants, shrubs or trees; stone or rock; topsoil; macadam; tree stumps; railroad ties; and coal ash.
D. 
Residents must drop off all yard waste during the course of the normal hours of operation which shall be posted at the entry to the site. Dropping off materials outside the course of normal business hours or dropping off material outside the site is strictly prohibited.
E. 
Any person who violates any provision of this Subpart shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a summary offense, punishable of a fine of not more than $1,000 per violation, per day or, in default thereof, by imprisonment for not more than 30 days.