This article establishes a yard waste collection
and disposal program in the Borough of Brooklawn so as to protect
public health, safety and welfare and to prescribe penalties for the
failure to comply.
For the purpose of this article, the following
terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings
stated herein unless their use in the text of this article clearly
demonstrates a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words used in
the plural number include the singular number, and words used in the
singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always
mandatory and not merely directory.
The placement of yard waste in a trash can, bucket, bag or
other vessel, such as to prevent the yard waste from spilling or blowing
out into the street and coming into contact with stormwater.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive
or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway,
and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved or
unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs,
sidewalks, parking areas and other areas within the street lines.
Leaves and grass clippings.
[Amended 5-18-2009 by Ord. No. 5-09]
It shall be a violation of this article to sweep,
rake, blow, or otherwise place yard waste that is not containerized
at the curb or along the street except on days designated by the Borough
for scheduled yard waste vacuum pickup. Materials may be placed between
the curb and the sidewalk (commonly referred to as the "grass strip")
seven days in advance of the posted days for yard waste vacuum pickup.
The Borough Department of Public Works will post notification on each
street 10 days in advance of the posted yard waste pickup. Placement
of such yard waste at the curb or along the street at any other time
or in any other manner is a violation of this article. If such placement
of yard waste occurs, the party responsible for placement of the yard
waste must remove the yard waste from the street within 24 hours of
formal notification, or said party shall be deemed in violation of
this article.
