[Adopted 6-22-1993 by Ord. No. 595 as
Secs. 19-1 to 19-26 of the 1993 Code]
The following words, terms and phrases, when
used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in
this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
The Director of Public Works of the Town.
Decomposable organic matter with a high water content that
would act as a breeding place or provide sustenance for flies, mosquitoes,
insects, rodents, rats, vermin or other vectors.
Includes such items as discarded automobiles, refrigerators,
tanks, washing machines, dryers, large appliances, etc.
Any parcel of land owned or leased and operated by the Town
as a designated waste disposal site.
Any person not a resident and shall include any person conducting
business in the Town and not owning land or having a vehicle currently
registered in the Town.
Any person owning land in the Town or any person residing
in the Town and having a vehicle currently registered at his same
address within the Town.
Any matter obtained from a cesspool, septic tank, seepage
pit, or any other sewage disposal unit.
Includes refuse, rubbish, trash, weeds, grass, leaves, noncombustible
waste, combustible waste, demolition materials, forestry products,
commercial refuse, industrial refuse, sludge and garbage.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or deposit, or to cause or permit to be thrown or deposited, any garbage,
discarded receptacles capable of holding water, or any combustible
material which might serve to increase the danger of fire upon any
vacant land in the Town, unless such land shall have previously been
designated by the Town Council as a proper and suitable place for
such use.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or deposit any waste material or debris upon the land of another without
the consent of the owner of such land.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or deposit any waste material or debris upon any public highway or
platted street.
No person shall place or deposit in any street
opening to any sewer or in any catch basin any animal or vegetable
matter, solid or liquid, or any filthy substance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or deposit in a municipal disposal area any swill, house offal, cesspool
waste, sewage waste or combustible materials, except dead leaves,
grass, weeds, branches or limbs of trees, without first obtaining
special permission from the Town Council.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or deposit in a municipal disposal area or in any other dump authorized
by the Town Council any icebox, refrigerator unit or other cabinet
without first removing the doors therefrom.
The owner or occupant of any premises where
swill or garbage accumulates shall provide a covered metal watertight
receptacle on such premises for such swill or garbage, and shall deposit,
or cause to be deposited, all such swill or garbage in the receptacle.
The owner or occupant shall not locate such receptacle in any place
which is not satisfactory to the Health Officer or State Department
of Health.
No person shall deposit any swill or garbage
in any other place than such a garbage receptacle as prescribed in
this article.
All refuse material must be contained in individual
rigid containers with covers, each of a capacity not exceeding 30
gallons except as otherwise specifically allowed. Oil drums, paper
bags, cardboard boxes, and baskets are not satisfactory containers.
No person shall deposit any bottles, broken
glass or crockery, house sweepings, or any other refuse, other than
swill or garbage, in any garbage receptacle.
Refuse consisting of toxic chemicals, dead animals,
demolition debris, excrement, surgical medical wastes, furniture,
large appliances, bulky mechanical equipment, explosives, building
materials, and other similar special wastes are not acceptable for
municipal collection. Such items shall be disposed of by separate
arrangement and at the sole expense of the owner.
All swill and house offal shall be removed in
or from the Town in watertight covered vehicles or containers which
shall be kept tightly closed when they are driven through the streets
of the Town.
All garbage must be drained and wrapped securely
in heavy newspaper or placed in a suitable bag for storage in the
refuse container. Items of trash that are not readily contained in
a refuse container, such as hedge clippings, tree limbs, and similar
trash, shall be securely tied in bundles, but the length shall not
exceed three feet, and the diameter of such bundles shall not exceed
two feet, nor shall the weight of such bundles exceed 75 pounds. Old
books, magazines and newspapers may be placed separately if securely
tied in bundles not larger than 20 inches by 20 inches by 26 inches.
Ashes, cinders and similar debris may be placed in open containers,
provided that they can be adequately handled and do not weigh over
75 pounds.
No vehicles shall be used for the removal of
swill or offal in or from the Town unless first examined and approved
by the Health Officer or State Department of Health, and the vehicles
shall have upon them such marks as required by the Health Officer
or State Department of Health.
A.
The Department of Public Works of the Town shall collect
garbage, rubbish, tin cans and combustible materials once a week.
The garbage, rubbish and tin cans shall be placed at the curbline
or adjacent to the public highways in suitable containers.
B.
The Department of Public Works shall collect garbage, rubbish, tin cans and combustible materials once a week when such material is placed at the curbline or adjacent to the roadway of a condominium development, if such condominium development was approved by the Town prior to the enactment of Article VIII, Planned Development and Mixed Use Planned Development Overlay, of Chapter 260, Zoning, of this Code.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place
in trash cans or other containers meant for trash, being handled by
the Department of Public Works of the Town, any fluids, acids, swill,
offal or other materials that are liable to do injury to persons or
property.
Whenever land, other than a municipal disposal
area, is used as a dumping ground by permission of the Town Council,
the owner of such ground or the agent of such owner shall cause all
offensive or decaying matter to be completely covered with earth or
clean ashes immediately upon the deposit of such matter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw
or deposit in a municipal disposal area anything which is collected
from outside the Town.
No person shall remove anything from a municipal
disposal area except by permission of the Town Council.
No person other than the owner thereof or a
duly authorized agent of the Town shall examine, disturb, interfere
with or remove any of the contents of any can, box or receptacle containing
rubbish and placed by such owner upon the sidewalks or highways of
this Town for collection and removal by the Department of Public Works
of the Town.
No owner or occupant of any premises within
or abutting the Town shall cause or permit the direct discharge of
polluted water or wastewater from any sink, water closet, washing
machine, shower, wash tub, cesspool, septic tank, stable, washbasin,
floor drain, or other facility discharging polluted wastewater into
any storm sewer, drainage ditch (natural or man-made), street gutter,
surface drain, natural brook, catch basin, manhole or any other stormwater
drainage facility.
No person shall carry or convey through or in
any street wastepaper not so covered or protected to prevent the escape
of such paper into any street, and no person while loading or unloading
a vehicle shall scatter or permit any wastepaper to be scattered in
any street or highway or where such wastepaper shall be blown into
any street or highway.
Every person who shall put, or cause to be put,
into any part of any street, road, alley, highway or way used by the
public as a highway within the compact part of the Town, any oyster
shells or other shells of shellfish, any broken glass, broken crockery,
tin scraps or other broken metal, or other sharp substances shall
be guilty of an offense.
Each person who shall put, or cause to be put,
into any part of any street, road, highway, or way used by the public
as a highway in this Town, any ashes, offal, or rubbish of any kind,
except under the direction of the Director of Public Works, shall
be guilty of an offense.
