[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Hamptonburgh as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-6-1979 as Ch. 50 of the
1979 Code]
A.Â
No person, firm or private or municipal corporation
shall throw, cast, lay, bury, store, dump, deposit or place or cause
to be thrown, cast, laid, buried, stored, dumped, deposited or placed,
for the purpose of abandonment or otherwise, any ashes, offal, dead
animals, vegetables, garbage, cinders, shells, straw, shavings, paper,
dirt, filth, broken glassware, crockery, bottles, junk, metal, bricks,
stone, plaster, lumber, metal tanks, barrels, tin cans or other metal
containers or waste material or garbage of any nature on any public
or privately owned lot, tract of land, street, lane, alley, park reserve
within 300 feet from any public thoroughfare or within 300 feet from
an real property line within the corporate limits of the Town of Hamptonburgh,
except where ashes or dirt may be used for filling-in purposes under
a permit secured from the Town Board of the Town of Hamptonburgh.
Nor shall any person, firm or private or municipal corporation throw,
cast, lay, bury, store, dump, deposit or place or cause to be thrown,
cast, laid, buried, stored, dumped, deposited or placed any such material
or materials upon any designated public dumping place within said
Town of Hamptonburgh outside of any incorporated village without first
having secured the consent of the Town Board.
B.Â
No person, firm or private or municipal corporation
shall place, store, deposit or dump, for the purpose of abandonment,
any automobile or automobile body upon any designated public dump
without first dismantling and cutting the same into small parts not
exceeding three feet in length or width and not exceeding 50 pounds
in weight per unit piece.
[Amended 4-13-1999 by L.L. No.
1-1999]
All garbage, kitchen wastes, paper and other
rubbish at dwellings and business establishments located within the
limits of the Town of Hamptonburgh shall be deposited in suitable
covered receptacles, which shall be protected from flies and emptied
and cleaned as often as necessary to keep them and their surroundings
in a sanitary condition and free from objectionable odors. The contents
shall be disposed of in such a way as not to become offensive or unsanitary
or create fly-breeding places.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 50-3, Depositing
in watercourses prohibited, which immediately followed this section,
was deleted 4-13-1999 by L.L. No. 1-1999.
No person shall throw, cast, lay, deposit or
break or discharge into or leave within the corporate limits of the
Town of Hamptonburgh in any lake, brook, pond, stream or body of water,
or in any storm sewer, pipe or drain flowing into any of the foregoing,
any substance, matter or thing, liquid or solid, garbage, sewage,
rubbish, waste, fruit, vegetables, foodstuffs, paper or other litter
or obnoxious materials which may or shall result in the pollution
of such water.
[Amended 9-30-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992; 4-13-1999 by L.L. No. 1-1999]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction, be punishable
by a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or both. Each day of continuance of an offense shall be considered
a separate offense.
[The Orange County Recycling Regulations,
as adopted by the Orange County Legislature, are the recycling standards
currently in effect in the Town of Hamptonburgh.]
