[HISTORY: Derived from Sec. 3-5 of the 1999 Code of the Township
of Clinton. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular,
leaflet, pamphlet paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced
original or copies of any matter of literature:
Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product commodity or thing;
Which directs attention to any business or mercantile or commercial
establishment or other activity for the purpose of, either directly or indirectly,
promoting the interest thereof by sales;
Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter,
is predominantly and essentially an advertisement and is distributed or circulated
for advertising purposes or for the private benefit and gain of any person
so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein and all other waste
material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create
a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any
newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States
in accordance with federal statute or regulation and any newspaper filed and
recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law and, in addition
thereto, shall mean and include any periodical or current magazine regularly
published with no fewer than four issues per year and sold to the public.
Any printed or written matter of literature not included in the aforesaid
definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper.
A park, reservation, playground, swimming pool, recreation center
or any other public area in the Township owned or used by the Township and
devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any dwelling house, building or other structure designated or used,
either in whole or in part, for private residential purposes, whether inhabited
or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any
yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging
or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public
ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds, malls and buildings.
A litter storage and collection container constructed of durable
material with a tightly fitting cover.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body wastes,
including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned
automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustibles and noncombustibles
wastes, such as paper wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings,
leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk,
mall or other public place within the Township, except in public receptacles,
authorized private receptacles for collection or in official Township dumps.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized private
receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried
or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place
or upon private property.
A.Â
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter,
storm drain, street, mall or other public place within the Township the accumulation
of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk
or driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk
in front of their business premises free of litter.
B.Â
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall
sweep into or deposit in any gutter, storm drain, street, mall or other public
place within the Township the accumulation of litter from any building or
lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or
occupying places of business within the Township shall keep the sidewalk in
front of their business premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or
deposit litter upon any street or public place within the Township or upon
private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the
Township unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any
load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley,
mall or other public place, nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle
or truck within the Township, the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit
in any street, alley, mall or other public place mud, dirt, sticky substances,
litter or foreign matter of any kind.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park, playground or recreation
area within the Township except in public receptacles and in such a manner
that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements
upon any part of the park or upon any street, mall or other public place.
Where public receptacles are not provided, all such litter shall be carried
away from the park, playground or recreation area by the person responsible
for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided herein.
No person shall throw or deposit litter or any foreign substance in
any fountain, pond, lake, stream, swimming pool or other body of water in
a park, mall or elsewhere within the Township.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any sidewalk, street, mall or other public place within the Township;
provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in any public place for any
person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof,
any noncommercial handbill to any person willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any vehicle; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in
any public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to
the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle
who is willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously uninhabited
or vacant.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial
handbill upon any private premises if requested by anyone thereon not to do
so or if there is placed on such premises in a conspicuous position near the
entrance thereof a sign bearing the words: "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers
or Agents," "No Advertisement" or any similar notice, indicating in any manner
that the occupants of such premises do not desire to be molested or have their
right of privacy disturbed or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
A.Â
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited,
except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner,
occupant or other person then present in or upon such private premises; provided,
however, that in case of inhabited private premises which are not posted,
as provided in this chapter, such person, unless requested by anyone upon
such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such handbill from being
blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets or other public
places, and except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by
federal postal law or regulation.
B.Â
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
distribution of mail by the United States nor newspapers, as defined herein,
except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner
as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street,
sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
A.Â
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied
private property within the Township, whether owned by such person or not,
except that the owner or person in control of private property may maintain
authorized private receptacles for collection in such a manner that litter
will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any
street, sidewalk or other public place or upon any private property.
B.Â
The owner or person in control of any private property
shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter; provided, however,
that this section shall not prohibit the storage of litter in receptacles
for collection and composting of leaves and grass clippings.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private
property within the Township, whether owned by such person or not.
A.Â
Notice to remove. The executive officer of the Board
of Health or his designated agent is hereby authorized and empowered to notify
the owner of any property within the Township or the agent of such owner's
property. Such notice shall be by certified mail addressed to such owner at
his last known address or may be by personal service upon the owner or his
agent.
B.Â
Action by Township upon noncompliance. Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any owner or agent so notified to properly dispose of litter dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare within 10 working days after receipt of written notice provided for in Subsection A above or within 10 working days after the date of such notice in the event that the same is returned to the Township and that the same is due and collectible as provided by law.
