[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Alexandria Bay as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 3-24-1992 as L.L. No. 3-1992]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
All putrescible (or decayable) wastes, except sewage and
body waste, including animal and vegetable offal and carcasses of
dead animals, and shall include all substances accumulated and/or
removed from all public and private establishments and properties,
including residences, but excluding recognizable industrial by-products,
discarded wood or lumber, grass clippings, weeds, leaves or stones.
Any individual, firm, partnership, company, corporation,
association, society or group.
Rubbish, garbage and trash.
General dry material produced routinely by household, commercial
or industrial establishments, such as paper, cans, bottles and other
containers and ashes.
Bushes, branches, Christmas trees, lawn rakings and similar
waste materials; bulky objects such as household appliances, equipment
or furniture; and building demolition or construction waste.
No person shall deposit for collection within
the Village of Alexandria Bay any garbage, refuse, rubbish or trash
which was generated outside of the Village of Alexandria Bay. Further,
no such garbage, refuse, rubbish or trash shall be picked up or disposed
of by the Village of Alexandria Bay on behalf of any person residing
or conducting a business within the Village of Alexandria Bay if such
materials were generated outside of the Village of Alexandria Bay.
Any garbage, refuse, rubbish or trash which
is brought into the Village of Alexandria Bay in violation of this
article and which is required to be removed by the Village of Alexandria
Bay shall be the responsibility of the property owner from whose property
the items are removed. All costs and expenses incurred by the Village
in so removing shall be considered a special assessment against the
property and added onto the next Village tax roll for the property.
Any person who shall violate any of the terms
of this article shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a violation and
subject to a fine not to exceed $250 and/or imprisonment for a period
not to exceed 15 days.
[Adopted 12-14-1993 by L.L. No. 3-1993]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Residue from fires used for cooking, heating and on-site
incineration.
A bulk storage container for garbage and other waste materials
that can be hauled directly to the point of disposal or emptied into
a larger, compactor-type truck for disposal.
Waste from the preparation, cooking and serving of foods,
market waste and waste from handling, storage and sale of produce.
All categories of materials to be disposed of, excluding
garbage and rubbish. "Refuse" shall include old, inoperable, discarded
equipment and/or parts thereof and disassembled or broken furniture
or other household appliances or items or parts thereof. "Refuse"
shall also include any and all building materials scrapped during
the repair of structures.
A.
Except as otherwise provided, no person, firm or corporation
shall throw, drop, place, push or deposit or cause to be thrown, dropped,
placed, pushed or deposited any snow, ice, garbage, rubbish, refuse
or other objects, substance or material from any source whatsoever
originating inside or outside of the Village of Alexandria Bay in
or upon any avenue, street, sidewalk, highway, public lot, parking
lot, public park, dock, wharf or boat launch within the Village of
Alexandria Bay.
B.
No person shall throw, dump or deposit or cause to
be thrown, dumped or deposited in any part of the Village of Alexandria
Bay any garbage, rubbish, refuse or abandoned vehicles or parts therefrom
from any source whatsoever originating inside or outside of the Village
of Alexandria Bay, and no person shall permit such throwing, dumping
or depositing thereof upon property owned, leased or controlled by
such person.
A.
No person or persons shall, within the corporate limits
of the Village of Alexandria Bay, collect from, draw through or have
upon the public streets or places of the Village any garbage, rubbish
or refuse except when contained in and conveyed by a vehicle having
a watertight compartment and constructed in such a manner that no
odor can escape therefrom and in such a manner that the garbage shall
not be visible.
B.
No person or persons shall collect from premises within
the Village of Alexandria Bay or draw through or have upon the public
streets or places of the Village, between May 1 and October 15, any
garbage, rubbish or refuse in any manner whatsoever after 4:00 p.m.
of any day during said period.
C.
All garbage, rubbish or refuse which is to be placed
out for collection by any person or persons within the Village of
Alexandria Bay shall be in a suitable container properly sealed or
covered so that no garbage, rubbish or refuse shall be strewn upon
the streets, sidewalks or any other public place within the Village.
In this respect, all waste, food, food cans, coverings or wrappings
shall be placed in covered, hard plastic or metal containers at curbside
for pickup. No such garbage, rubbish or refuse shall be placed for
pickup at curbside on any day other than the designated pickup day.
D.
Exceptions. Leaves, old newspapers, magazines, debris
and other items which are required to be recycled and which are not
likely to attract scavenging animals need not be included in containers
as aforementioned but shall in all other respects comply with any
recycling law adopted by the County of Jefferson or the Village of
Alexandria Bay.
E.
No recyclables shall be placed outside for pickup
prior to 7:00 p.m. on the day prior to pickup day.
[Added 6-24-2003 by L.L. No. 1-2003]
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this article shall be guilty of a violation and shall be subject to
a fine not to exceed $250 and/or imprisonment for a period of time
not to exceed 15 days, and/or both such fine and imprisonment. The
continuation of an offense against the provisions of this article
shall constitute, for each day the offense continued, a separate and
distinct offense.
