[Adopted by Ord. No. O-91-38 (§ 6-18
of the Revised General Ordinances)]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A written record, log, bill or document evidencing receipt
of service for the collection of solid waste for the preceding month
from a person lawfully engaging in private solid waste collection
services within the Township.
The scheduled pickup and removal of solid waste from residential,
commercial or institutional premises located within the boundaries
of the Township at least once a week.
Any property owner, tenant or occupant of any single-family
residential dwelling or multiple dwelling, or the owner of any commercial
or institutional building or structure located within the boundaries
of the Township, who generates solid waste at those premises.
Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials resulting from
industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from domestic
and community activities and shall include all other waste materials
including liquids, except for solid animal and vegetable wastes collected
by swine producers licensed by the State Department of Agriculture
to collect, prepare and feed such wastes to swine on their own farms.
The activity related to pickup and transportation of solid
waste from its source or location to a solid waste facility or other
destination.
A covered receptacle or container or bag suitable for the
depositing of solid waste.
[Amended 12-27-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-48]
The storage, treatment, utilization, processing or final
disposal of solid waste.
Includes the plants, structures and other real and personal
property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed
or operated by any person pursuant to the provisions of this article
or any other act, including transfer stations, incinerators, resource
recovery facilities, sanitary landfill facilities or other plants
for the disposal of solid waste, and all vehicles, equipment and other
real or personal property and rights therein and appurtenances necessary
or useful and convenient for the collection or disposal of solid waste
in a sanitary manner.
A.
In the case of single-family and multifamily residential
housing, each responsible solid waste generator shall, if he or she
has not already done so, enter into a contract for regular solid waste
collection service with any person lawfully providing private solid
waste collection services within the Township, except that any such
responsible solid waste generator who is transporting the solid waste
which is generated at his residential premises directly to the solid
waste facility utilized by the Township for disposal shall be exempt
from this requirement. In the case of multifamily residential housing,
it shall be the responsibility of the owner of the multiple dwelling
to provide a sufficient number of appropriate solid waste containers
for the deposit of nonrecyclable waste materials to be disposed of
as solid waste.
B.
Any responsible solid waste generator at any commercial
or institutional building or structure shall enter into a contract
with any person lawfully providing private solid waste collection
services within the Township.
C.
In the case of a responsible solid waste generator,
within the municipality, who is transporting the solid waste which
is generated at his residential premises directly to an approved solid
waste facility utilized by the Township for disposal, every such responsible
solid waste generator shall furnish proof that the responsible solid
waste generator is transporting the solid waste which is generated
at his residential premises directly to the solid waste facility utilized
by the Township for disposal to the Township Committee at least once
every 12 months. In order to fulfill the requirements of this subsection,
the responsible solid waste generator may include the proof of service
with the municipal tax payment mailed to the Municipal Tax Collector.
[Amended 12-27-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-48]
