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Village of Ossining, NY
Westchester County
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As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
OFFENSIVE MATERIAL
Any sewage, fecal matter, manure, offal, garbage, dead animals, meat waste, blood, tankage, brine, urine or any putrescible organic matter or the contents of privies, cesspools, septic tanks or chemical toilets either in a liquid or solid state or any other substance or liquid dangerous or prejudicial to health.
No person, except a municipality, shall engage in the business of removing, collecting or transporting offensive material without first having obtained a permit therefor from an applicable license officer. This section shall not be construed to prevent the continuous transportation through the Village of offensive material for disposition at an approved place of disposal outside the Village.
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No person shall permit vehicles engaged in transporting and removing offensive material to be stored or kept in any building or on any premises unless such building and premises are kept and maintained clean and free of all offensive material and in such a manner as will prevent the creation of a nuisance.
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No vehicle shall be washed at such premises unless washed in an enclosed building so that the drainage of wash water is onto an impervious floor properly drained and connected to a sanitary sewer.
No person shall collect, remove or transport or permit the collection, removal or transportation of any offensive material within the Village, except in such a manner and in or by such conveyance as will prevent the creation of a nuisance or the loss or discharge of such material in any public or private place. All such material shall be so handled, covered and treated that it cannot escape or be accessible to rodents, flies or other insects or create a nuisance. All vehicles and implements in connection therewith shall be kept in an inoffensive and sanitary condition, except when loading and in actual transit. No vehicle shall contain any offensive material, and when stored, standing or not in use, all vehicles shall be empty and free of any offensive material and kept in an inoffensive and sanitary condition so as not to create a nuisance.