As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined in § 200-1, and all other waste material, which, if thrown or deposited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
A.
No person shall throw, place, deposit or cause to
be thrown, placed or deposited litter or any dangerous or offensive
substances in or upon any public place, except in a public receptacle
or in an authorized private receptacle for private collection.
B.
A public receptacle shall not be used for the deposit
of garbage.
No person shall throw or cause to be thrown
litter or any dangerous or offensive substance at a car, vehicle,
house, building or fence.
No person shall deposit, drain, pour, pump or
throw or cause or permit to be deposited, drained, poured, pumped
or thrown into or onto any of the streets, lands, alleys, ditches
or underdrains owned or maintained by the Town any slops, filth, unclean
water, trash, garbage, refuse or other foreign matter that is or may
be injurious to the health of the residents of the Town.
A person placing litter in public receptacles
or in private receptacles shall do so in a manner so as to prevent
it from being blown, carried or deposited by the elements upon public
places or private property.
A.
No person shall sweep, cast or throw or deposit or
cause to be swept, cast, thrown or deposited in any public place the
accumulation of litter from a building or lot or from a public or
private sidewalk or driveway, except as permitted by this Article.
B.
All persons owning or occupying property shall keep
the sidewalk in front of their premises free from litter.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter upon a public
or private place from a vehicle.
B.
No person shall drive or move a truck or other vehicle
unless the vehicle is so constructed, loaded or covered as to prevent
any load or contents of litter from being blown or deposited upon
any public or private place.
C.
No person shall drive or move any vehicle or truck
within the Town, the wheels or tires of which carry on to or deposit
in any street, alley or other public or private place mud, dirt, sticky
substance or foreign matter of any kind.
No person shall throw, place or deposit or permit
to be thrown, place or deposited, upon any public or private lot,
litter of any description.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit a commercial or noncommercial
handbill in or upon a sidewalk, street or other public place.
B.
No person shall hand out or distribute or sell a commercial
handbill in a public place.
C.
This section shall not apply to the distribution in
any public place, without charge to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial
handbill to any person willing to accept it.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit a commercial or noncommercial
handbill in or upon private premises which are temporarily or continuously
uninhabited or vacant, except by handing or transmitting such handbill
directly to the owner, occupant or other person then present in or
upon such private premises.
B.
In case of inhabited private premises which are not
posted, the distributor, unless requested by anyone upon the premises
not to do so, shall have the authority to place or deposit a handbill
in or upon such inhabited private premises, if the handbill is so
placed or deposited as to secure or prevent the handbill from being
blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets or other
public places.
C.
Mailboxes may not be used when prohibited by federal
postal law or regulations.
The provisions of § 200-17 shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States nor to newspapers.
No person shall post or affix a notice, poster
or other paper or device, calculated to attract the attention of the
public, to a lamppost, public utility pole or shade tree or upon any
public structure or building, except as may be authorized by the owners
thereof or required by law.
A.
No person shall throw, deposit or store litter on
any occupied private property, whether by such person or not.
B.
The owner or person in control of private property
may maintain private receptacles for collection and removal of litter
in a manner that receptacles shall not be unsightly and detrimental
to the surrounding neighbors.
