Borough of Clementon, NJ
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2023-11-21
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 240 Solid Waste
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Article I Garbage and Trash
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 9 Civil Service
- Ch 13 Claims Approval
- Ch 15 Contracts, Public
- Ch 17 Cooperative Pricing
- Ch 21 Court, Municipal
- Ch 26 Fire Rescue
- Ch 30 Health, Board of
- Ch 34 Housing Authority
- Ch 38 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 42 (Reserved)
- Ch 43 Officers and Employees
- Ch 47 Personnel Regulations
- Ch 51 Police Department
- Ch 55 Public Works Department
- Ch 57 Public Records
- Ch 59 Salaries and Compensation
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 70 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 74 Amusements
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 87 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 91 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 96 Certificates of Occupancy for Rental Properties
- Ch 100 Checks, Returned
- Ch 105 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 109 Curfew
- Ch 112 Department of Finance
- Ch 115 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 119 Dry-Cleaning Establishments, Coin-Operated
- Ch 125 Fees
- Ch 130 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 134 Fire Safety
- Ch 138 Floodplain Management
- Ch 142 Food and Beverages
- Ch 146 Games of Chance
- Ch 151 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 155 Housing Standards
- Ch 159 Jitneys and Autobuses
- Ch 164 Library
- Ch 168 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 172 Littering
- Ch 175 (Reserved)
- Ch 186 (Reserved)
- Ch 189 Omnibuses
- Ch 193 Parades
- Ch 194 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 198 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 202 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 206 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 210 Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 212 Property, Abandoned
- Ch 214 Property Maintenance
- Ch 215 Recreational Motor Vehicles
- Ch 218 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 220 Rental Properties
- Ch 220A Rentals, Short-Term
- Ch 222 Sales, Special
- Ch 226 Sewers
- Ch 228 Sex Offenders
- Ch 230 Shopping Carts
- Ch 236 Soil Removal
- Ch 240 Solid Waste
- Ch 240 Art I Garbage and Trash
- § 240-1 Containers required.
- § 240-2 Removal of garbage and trash.
- § 240-3 Placement for collection.
- § 240-4 Control by Borough Council.
- § 240-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 243 Stormwater Control
- Ch 245 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 249 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 253 Swimming Pools
- Ch 257 Tattooing and Body Piercing Establishments
- Ch 261 Taxation
- Ch 266 Towing and Wrecking
- Ch 270 Trailers
- Ch 274 Trees
- Ch 277 Municipal Facilities
- Ch 278 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 281 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 283 Video Surveillance and GPS Policy
- Ch 285 (Reserved)
- Ch 290 Water
- Ch 291 Water and Sewer Connections
- Ch 294 Weed Control
- Ch 298 Zoning
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 299 General Provisions
- Ch 303 (Reserved)
- Ch 308 (Reserved)
- Ch 312 Retail Food Establishments
- Ch 316 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Appendix
- Ch A322 Urban Renewal Area
- Ch A323 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 4-28-1975 by Ord. No. 75-10]
A.
It shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, agent,
lessee or occupant of any building or dwelling house to provide, or
cause to be provided, and to keep and maintain suitably covered, watertight
containers for receiving and holding of decaying and decomposing matter,
swill, offal, garbage or similar matter that may accumulate or be
collected in said building, dwelling house or on said premises; and
such containers shall, at all times, be kept in a place outside of
said building or dwelling house, out of view of the general public,
until such time as such containers are placed by the roadside for
collection.
B.
It shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, agent,
lessee or occupant of any building or dwelling house to provide, or
cause to be provided, and to keep and maintain suitably covered, appropriate
containers for receiving and holding of trash, ashes, paper products,
tin cans, bottles, debris, old household items, refuse, junk, items
of furniture, stoves, refrigerators and other usual household waste,
including Christmas trees, or similar matter that may accumulate or
be collected in said building, dwelling house or on said premises;
and such containers shall, at all times, be kept in a place out of
view of the general public until such time as such containers are
placed by the roadside for collection.
All persons, concerns or companies who shall
remove garbage, trash and similar matter shall remove the same in
watertight containers, properly closed, and shall not suffer nor permit
the contents to fall, leak or drop on any street, alley or public
place within the said Borough of Clementon.
No owner, tenant, agent, lessee or occupant
of any building or dwelling house shall place by the roadside, or
within view of the general public, garbage, trash or similar matter
for collection more than 12 hours prior to the day designated by the
collector thereof for the collection of same. Said collection day
may be ascertained from the Borough Clerk.
All collection and removal of garbage, trash
or similar matter shall be under the control and direction of the
Borough Council of the Borough of Clementon, which body shall fix
the days, hours and rules and regulations concerning and governing
the same.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment in the
county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.
