This chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority
granted by N.J.S.A. 40:48-2.13 and 40:48-2.14.
In the event that the Construction Code Official,
Health Officer or Superintendent of Public Works, or their designated
agent, finds that it is necessary and expedient for the preservation
of the public health, safety or general welfare, or to eliminate a
fire hazard, to remove from any lands situate in the Township of Union
or destroy thereon any brush, weeds, including ragweed, dead and dying
trees, stumps, roots, obnoxious growths, filth, garbage, trash and
debris, the Construction Code Official, Health Officer or Superintendent
of Public Works, or their designated agent, is hereby authorized and
directed to notify, in writing, the owner and, if occupied by a tenant,
the tenant or tenants thereof, to remove or destroy the same. The
notice shall contain a copy of this chapter. If the owner or tenant
does not remove or destroy the same within 10 days after written notice
from the Township, the Construction Code Official, Health Officer
or Superintendent of Public Works is hereby authorized and directed
to cause the offending material to be removed or destroyed.
Any owner or tenant affected by an order of
the Township hereunder shall have the right, within the ten-day notification
period, to file an appeal from the order of the Construction Code
Official, Health Officer or Superintendent of Public Works to the
Township Administrator. The appeal shall be in writing, and the Township
Administrator shall set the matter down for hearing in a summary manner.
The Township Administrator shall have the authority to affirm, deny
or modify the order of the Construction Code Official, Health Officer
or Superintendent of Public Works. The decision of the Township Administrator
shall be in writing and, if action by the owner or tenant is required
thereby, the Township Administrator shall furnish the owner or tenant
an additional period of time up to a maximum of 10 days to comply.
Failure of the owner or tenant to comply within said period shall
authorize the Construction Code Official, Health Officer or Superintendent
of Public Works to move forthwith in accord with the terms of this
chapter.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or group of
persons, and the plural or singular, and the masculine, feminine or
neuter shall be inferred, whichever is appropriate for the effectuation
of this chapter.
All persons occupying residential premises within
the Township of Union in the County of Union shall, for the period
from September 1 to December 31 of each year, source separate leaves
from solid waste generated at those premises and, unless leaves are
stored or recycled for composting or mulching by the generator, place
the leaves for collection in the manner hereinafter provided.
[Amended 4-26-2005 by Ord. No. 4865; 2-10-2009 by Ord. No.
5085]
A. Leaves must be
placed in biodegradable paper bags or an open sturdy container no
larger than 32 gallons and no heavier than 50 pounds for pickup.
B. Leaves must not
contain plants, branches, shrub clippings or other foreign matter.
C. Leaf bags or containers
must not be placed at the curb before 5:00 p.m. the day before a scheduled
pickup.
D. No landscaper
or resident shall blow, rake or place leaves curbside.
E. Landscapers shall
comply with the requirements of this section.
[Amended 2-10-2009 by Ord. No. 5085]
Use of plastic leaf bags is prohibited; only
biodegradable paper bags or an open sturdy container no larger than
32 gallons must be used for leaf collection.
[Amended 2-10-2009 by Ord. No. 5085]
A. Landscapers shall
be responsible for the disposal of grass clippings, leaves and other
yard debris which they may have generated. Landscapers may place the
leaves from residential premises which they are servicing for collection
by placing said leaves in biodegradable bags or an open sturdy container
no larger than 32 gallons, no heavier than 50 pounds, and place at
the curb not before 5:00 p.m. the day before a scheduled pickup; said
leaves must not contain plants, branches, shrub clippings or other
foreign matter.
B. Landscapers and
residents may deposit grass clippings at the curb, not before 5:00
p.m. the day before a scheduled pickup for collection for recycling
use as mulch or composting materials. The grass clippings must be
placed out in a biodegradable paper bag or an open sturdy container
no larger than 32 gallons, no heavier than 50 pounds. No grass clippings
will be collected in plastic bags.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a penalty
not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
90 days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or
any combination thereof.