A.
This chapter is enacted in order to promote the general
welfare of the Town and the health, safety, comfort and welfare of
its inhabitants.
B.
It is further the purpose of this chapter to accomplish
litter control throughout the Town by declaring certain acts which
cause proliferation and accumulation of litter to be unlawful and
providing penalties for violations. This chapter is intended to supplement
and not supersede existing laws governing or prohibiting litter or
the control and disposition of waste.
C.
It is further the purpose of this chapter to provide
for the property maintenance of private property including vacant
property.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Subject to the provisions of this chapter, litter,
garbage, refuse, rubbish, offal or filth shall not be removed from
private premises and deposited in any place in the Town except at
such place as may be provided by the Town Council.
The following words, terms and phrases, when
used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in
this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning.
The residue from burning of wood, coal, coke or other combustible
materials.
Any handbill which:
Advertises for sale or lease any item or service;
or
Directs attention to any business or other commercial
activity for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting
the interests thereof by sales or by other means; or
Contains reading or pictorial matter other than
advertising but which is predominantly a commercial advertisement
and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the
private benefit of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
Any private or public property upon which repairs to an existing
building or structure are being made or where the construction of
new buildings or structures or demolition of existing structures is
taking place.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation and consumption of foods.
Any printed or written matter or literature which is not
delivered by U.S. Mail, irrespective of content.
Any public or private establishment which educates, instructs,
treats for health purposes, or otherwise performs a service or need
for the community, region, state or nation.
All refuse, debris, or waste materials, including, but not
limited to, bottles, glass, crockery, cans, tin or otherwise, scrap
metal, paper, cardboard, plastic, rubber, rubbish, ashes, garbage,
weeds over 12 inches in height, sweepings, undergrowth, yard debris,
offal, waste building material at construction sites, disposable packages
or containers thrown or deposited as prohibited in this chapter, and
any appliances, furniture, inoperative vehicles and vehicle parts,
and mattresses in open storage, but not including the properly disposed
waste of the primary processes of mining, logging, sawmilling, farming,
or manufacturing.
A container with a capacity of not less than 10 gallons constructed
and placed for use as a depository for litter.
Any private or public property with spaces provided for parking
vehicles to which the public is invited or which the public is permitted
to use for the purpose of parking.
Any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, association, firm, receiver, guardian, trustee, executor,
administrator, fiduciary, or representative, or group of individuals
or entities of any kind.
Includes, but is not limited to, exterior locations owned
by private individuals, firms, corporations, institutions or organizations,
or yards, grounds, driveways, entranceways, passageways, parking areas,
working areas, storage areas, vacant lots, and recreation facilities.
Any building which is owned or operated by government or
private interests and which is used as a place to conduct business
in which the general public is involved.
Includes, but is not limited to, the following exterior locations:
streets, street medians, roads, road medians, sidewalks, catch basins,
strips between streets and sidewalks, alleys, public rights-of-way,
public parking lots, school grounds, vacant lots owned by the Town,
parks, playgrounds, other publicly owned recreational facilities,
and any other land owned or leased by the Town, state or federal government.
Shall include ashes, garbage, litter and rubbish as defined
in this section.
Nonputrescible, solid wastes consisting of paper, cardboard,
wood, tin cans, glass, yard clippings, bedding, crockery, metals,
trash, sweepings, litter and all other similar substances.
Every device capable of being moved upon a public highway
or in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported
or drawn upon any public highway, except devices moved by human power,
or used exclusively for agricultural purposes and not licensed pursuant
to state law, which is not operated on any highway for purposes other
than crossing such public highway, or along such highway between two
tracts of the owner's land.
Except where otherwise specified by law, or
where specifically set forth in a section of this chapter, a violation
of this chapter shall be punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor.
Enforcement officers of the Town Police Department
are hereby empowered to issue a summons to any person violating any
provision of this chapter and may serve and execute all warrants and
other process issued by the courts in enforcing the provisions of
this chapter.
