[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. 
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. 
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]
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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.]