This chapter shall be known as "The Local Law Regulating Junk Storage
in the Town of Barton."
The Town Board hereby declares that a clean, wholesome, and attractive
environment is of vital importance to the continued general welfare of its
citizens, and that regulation of the deposit, accumulation, or maintenance
of junk, regardless of quantity, is hereby prohibited anywhere within sight
of persons lawfully traveling the public highways or within sight of neighboring
property. By adoption of this chapter, the municipality declares its intent
to preserve and promote a reasonable quality of environment and aesthetics
and to prohibit actions and conduct that tend to depreciate not only the property
on which it is located but also the property of other persons in the neighborhood
and the community generally.
This chapter shall apply in addition to the provisions of any other
local law or ordinance adopted by the Town of Barton.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
All putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from growing,
processing, marketing and preparing of food items, including the container
in which packaged.
Worn out or discarded material of little or no value, including,
but not limited to, a junk appliance, junk furniture, an unlivable mobile
home and a nondrivable motor vehicle, or garbage, rubbish and debris.
The placing, maintaining or keeping of junk, rubbish, clutter, litter
or debris in a place other than a structure with a roof and fully enclosed
on all sides.
Ordinary household or commercial trash, such as paper and paper products,
barrels, cartons, cans, glass, metals, machinery, plastics, rubber crates,
furniture, rugs, clothing, rags, mattresses, blankets, cigarettes, tires,
lumber, brick, stone and other building materials, no longer intended or in
condition for ordinary use; and any and all tangible personal property no
longer intended or in condition for ordinary and customary use.
