[Adopted 2-4-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991]
The Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village
of Rockville Centre declares and finds it to be in the public interest
and to promote the public health and for the public good, to preserve
the property values, create a more attractive economic and business
climate, to reduce the risk of disease, vermin and other unhealthy
consequences associated with garbage, trash or waste and for other
aesthetic considerations to provide for the regulation of the depositing
of materials in the Village litter baskets. The Board also finds the
misuse of litter baskets has been increasing particularly in the Business
District, and such increased misuse is detrimental to the quality
of life in this Village.
As used in this article, the following words
and phrases shall have the following meanings:
Includes single newspapers, food, gum, candy wrappers, ice
cream pop bags and sticks, individual sheets of paper, empty paper
or plastic bags or like items that a passerby might carry and discard,
such as tissues or food containers from which the discarding person
consumed the food. "Casual trash" does not include commercial, business
or household trash or waste.
Waste receptacles placed by the Village of Rockville Centre
in the downtown Business District for the convenient disposal of casual
trash.
No person shall deposit any material other than
casual trash in a Village-owned litter basket in the Business District,
and such material shall not exceed 1/2 cubic foot of volume or two
pounds it weight within any twenty-four-hour period.
No person shall direct or suffer or allow his
employee, agent or contractor to deposit any material other than casual
waste in a Village-owned litter basket in the Business District, and
such material shall not exceed 1/2 cubic foot of volume or two pounds
in weight within any twenty-four-hour period.
If nonpermitted material is found in a litter
basket and the owner or custodian of such material is identifiable
from such material, a rebuttal presumption of such person's intent
to violate this article shall arise.
Enforcement shall be the duty of the Superintendent
of Public Works, Building Officer and Commissioner of Police, and
each is hereby given the power and authority to enforce the provisions
of this article personally and by their delegatees.
For each and every failure to comply with the
provisions of this article, the owner or custodian of the material
which was wrongly placed in the litter basket and the person who placed
or assisted in such placement shall be guilty of a violation against
this article, which violation shall be punishable by a fine not to
exceed $250, imprisonment not to exceed 15 days, or both. Each separate
piece of material, whether packaged or not, shall constitute a separate
and distinct additional violation.
