This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Solid Waste
and Recycling Collection and Disposal Ordinance of the Township of Dallas."
The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the collection and disposal
of garbage, solid waste and recyclable materials produced and generated within
the Township of Dallas in the most efficient and economically sound manner,
to reduce the volume of garbage and solid waste disposed of within the Township
of Dallas; and further to create and to implement a general municipal waste
management plan and project so as to conserve natural resources and to support
the right of the residents of the Township of Dallas to dwell in a clean and
healthy environment.
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,
the following words and terms shall be construed as follows:
BIMETALLIC CONTAINERS
Empty food and beverage containers consisting of aluminum, steel
and tin coating. A can is bimetallic if a magnet sticks to the sides but not
to the ends.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Those premises used principally for nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including but not limited to stores, offices, restaurants, shopping
centers, gas stations and churches.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
All events or activities which are sponsored by public, private,
nonprofit and municipal agencies or individuals that include, but are not
limited to, fairs, bazaars, socials and organized athletic events attended
by 200 or more people.
CORRUGATED PAPER
Structural paper material with an inner core shaped in rigid parallel
furrows and ridges.
DISPOSAL
The deposition, incineration, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking
or placing of solid waste into or on the land or water in a manner that the
solid waste or a constituent of the solid waste enters the environment, is
emitted into the air or is discharged into the waters of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
GARBAGE
Solid waste resulting from the preparation, cooking, handling, dealing,
storing, sale and consumption of all animal and vegetable wastes.
IMPROVED PROPERTY
Any premises within the municipality upon which there is erected
a structure intended for habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals,
and from which solid waste or recyclable materials shall or may be generated
or produced.
INSTITUTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any facility that houses or serves groups of people, including but
not limited to hospitals, schools, day-care centers and nursing homes.
LEAVES
Leaves, garden residues, shrubbery and tree trimmings, and similar
material, but not including grass clipping.
MUNICIPAL ESTABLISHMENTS
The public facilities operated by the member municipalities and Dallas
Area Municipal Authority.
MUNICIPALITY
This political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
NEWSPRINT
Paper of the type commonly used for newspapers and distributed at
fixed intervals, having printed thereon news and opinions, containing advertisements
and other matters of public interest. Expressly excluded are glossy advertising
inserts often included with newspapers.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of any property located in the Authority's service area.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, company, business organization, association,
society, corporation or other group or entity.
PLASTICS
Empty plastic food and beverage containers.
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
Materials enumerated in Act 101 of 1988 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and materials identified
by the municipality or its agent or contractor for recycling.
RESIDENTIAL DWELLING
A single or multifamily dwelling, including, but not limited to,
condominium units, apartments and mobile homes.
SOLID WASTE
Materials or substances discharged or rejected as being spent, useless,
worthless or in excess by a person and any garbage, refuse, industrial, lunchroom
or office waste and other material including solid, liquid or semisolid or
contained gaseous material resulting from the operation of residential, municipal,
commercial, industrial or institutional establishments. The term does not
include recyclable materials or materials approved for beneficial use by the
municipality, or its agent or contractor.
The Township of Dallas is authorized to levy, charge, assess, adopt
and collect from time to time service charges and fees for the collection,
transportation and disposal of garbage, solid waste and recyclable materials
within the Township of Dallas, as provided herein, to the extent and in the
manner provided by law.
Any person who shall place at curbside garbage, solid waste or recyclable
materials for collection, transportation or disposal shall be deemed to have
given consent, whether express or implied, to the Township of Dallas, or its
agent or contractor, to open and inspect any container, receptacle or enclosure
containing or purporting to contain garbage, solid waste or recyclable materials.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall,
upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice
under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary
offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs
of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof
that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall
also constitute a separate offense.