[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of Monroe 10-11-2005
by Ord. No. O-31-2005. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to establish requirements to control
littering in the Township of Monroe so as to protect public health, safety
and welfare and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words
and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use
in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates a different meaning. When
not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include
the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number, and
words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory.
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which has been
discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber, paper or other
natural or synthetic material, or any combination thereof, including, but
not limited to, any bottle, jar or can, or any top, cap or detachable tab
of any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming
or glowing material or any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass
clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal,
plastic or paper containers of other packaging or construction material, but
does not include the waste of the primary processes of mining or other extraction
processes, logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing.
A container suitable for the depositing of litter.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association
or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
A.
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.
B.
Whenever any litter is thrown or discarded or allowed
to fall from a vehicle or boat in violation of this chapter, the operator
or owner, or both, of the motor vehicle or boat shall also be deemed to have
violated this chapter.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by the Police Department,
Board of Health, the Zoning/Code Enforcement Officer and/or the Mayor's
designee of the Township of Monroe.
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this
chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000 and up to six months
in jail and/or 30 days of community service. Every twenty-four-hour period
of said violation, after notice thereof from the Monroe Township Board of
Health or its authorized representative, shall be deemed to be a separate
offense and punishable as aforesaid by said fine.
Each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase of this chapter
is declared to be an independent section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase, and the finding or holding of any such portion of this chapter to
be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause or reason shall not
affect any other portion of this chapter.
