[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:
CASUAL TRASH
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.
LITTER BASKETS
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.