In this chapter, unless the context requires
otherwise, the following shall have the following meanings:
YARD WASTE
Leaves, needles, grass clippings, garden debris, and brush,
including clean woody vegetative material. This term includes stumps,
roots, or shrubs with intact root balls.
REFUSE
All waste materials, solid, liquid, or semisolid, produced
by or from, used by, or resulting from industrial, agricultural, household,
manufacturing, business, or community life, such as but not limited
to minerals, asphalt, rocks, concrete products, wood products, glass
products, metal products, used furniture, household appliances, products
or items, clothing, building material, motor vehicles, products and
parts, tires, paper products, burnt materials, chemicals, paints,
cleaning solutions and containers, plastics, solvents, petroleum products
and materials and their containers defined as hazardous.
GARBAGE
Every waste accumulation of animal, fruit, or vegetable matter,
liquid or otherwise, resulting from the preparing, processing, storing,
consuming, cooking, dealing in or with animal, fruit, or vegetable
matter.
[Amended 9-10-2015 by Ord. No. 600]
Any person who violates this chapter shall be
subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $200 plus any
and all cost incurred by the Town of Elsmere should the offender fail
to immediately remove any item placed in violation of this chapter.
Any police officer and any Code Enforcement
Officer of the Town of Elsmere, as well as any Code Enforcement Officer
of any other jurisdiction who is providing mutual aid to the Town
in accordance with Title 20, Chapter 32, "Intrastate Mutual Aid Compact,"
shall have the authority to enforce this chapter and shall have authority
to issue citations or complaints for violations of this chapter.
This chapter is intended to strengthen the Town's
existing code. Any part of any ordinance, code or regulation which
is in direct conflict with this chapter is hereby repealed.
If any section, clause or division of this chapter
be declared by the court to be invalid, the same shall not affect
the validity of the chapter as a whole or any part thereof, other
than the part so declared to be invalid.