[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Selectmen
of the Town of Newtown 3-21-1988 (Reg. No. 9). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No one is permitted to enter the disposal area
without a permit.
A.
There shall be two classes of permits, Class A and
Class B.
(1)
Class A permits.
(a)
Class A permits shall be valid from the date
of issue to June 30 of each year.
(b)
Class A permits shall be issued for all material
suitable for deposit in the Newtown disposal area.
(c)
Class A permits are renewable upon reapplication,
except in the case of the fourth reapplication, in which case the
permit shall not be granted until after the next permit year begins
on July 1.
(2)
Class B permits shall be issued for one day only,
and shall be surrendered to the attendant. The owner or tenant who
generates the material for deposit into the Newtown disposal area
shall countersign the Class B permit. The permit shall also contain
his or her street address and a general description, including telephone
number, yardage, and the name of the commercial collector.
B.
The First Selectman may revoke a permit of either
class for violations of the Landfill Regulations and Rules, which
may result in refusal of subsequent permits. The revocation of any
permit may be appealed to the Board of Selectmen, who shall have the
authority to reinstate the permit. Appeals shall be taken in writing
30 days from the date of written notice of refusal.
C.
Stickers will be provided to all Newtown residents
and will act as a permit.
A.
Commercial collectors shall include any person, firm,
or corporation who transports into the Newtown disposal area any material
not defined as residential material. "Residential material" is defined
as all that material generated by an inhabited dwelling, including
but not limited to organic material, grass clippings, leaves and newspapers,
and excluding bulky waste, trees, stumps, clean fill, materials from
house or building construction or demolition, cardboard except as
may be incidental to a residential use of same, and tires. The listing
of included and excluded materials is not intended to be exhaustive,
but is given by way of example.
B.
Fees.
(1)
The fee schedule for permits for vehicles carrying
nonresidential material is as follows:
(a)
Class A, yearly fee per vehicle: $25 per yard
of rated capacity and $3 per yard per trip, to be calculated at the
maximum rated capacity of each vehicle for each trip.
(b)
Class B: $5 per day and $3 per yard per trip,
to be calculated at the maximum rated capacity of each vehicle for
each trip.
(d)
Class D. Additional fees:
[1]
Bulky waste: $6 per cubic yard.
[2]
Industrially generated cardboard: $20 per cubic
yard.
[3]
Appliances (including air conditioners, clothes
dryers, clothes washers, dishwashers, furnaces, hot-water heaters,
oil tanks, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, microwaves, and water
tanks): $10 per item.
[4]
Furniture/Miscellaneous (including chairs, sofas,
console televisions, desks, metal, miscellaneous large furniture,
toilets, tubs, sinks and wall-to-wall carpets): $10 per item.
(2)
All fees shall be paid prior to deposit of materials
in the Newtown disposal area. The method of collection and recordkeeping
procedures shall be established by the Financial Director and First
Selectman.
C.
Each refuse collector shall file a certificate of
insurance, automobile liability for each registered vehicle with the
First Selectman at the time and each subsequent time a permit is issued
or renewed.
D.
Upon the first and each subsequent violation of the
regulations covering the use of the Newtown disposal area; i.e., importation
of refuse from outside the Town of Newtown and upon written notification
by the First Selectman, the entire permit fee for the vehicle will
be forfeit and the permit will be immediately revoked.
E.
Application must then be made for renewal of permit
and the entire annual fee paid again for the balance of the permit
year.
F.
In the case of repeated violations, the Board of Selectmen
may bar the commercial operator from the use of the disposal facility
entirely for such period as they deem appropriate.
G.
Prior to the issuance of permits for any vehicle,
a route list for that vehicle must be supplied to the Selectman's
Office, and this route list must demonstrate sufficient volume for
this particular vehicle entirely within the Town limits of Newtown.
A.
Tires will be accepted only when rims are removed,
and must be deposited in designated area.
B.
Salvageable metal to be deposited in designated area.
This includes wire goods, tanks, tire rims, bedsprings, etc. No car
bodies will be accepted.
C.
Brush and demolition material must be deposited in
designated area.
D.
Leaves, grass clippings and other organic material
must be deposited in designated area.
E.
Prohibited materials include noxious chemicals, oily
wastes, hot furnace wastes and hot ashes, and any other hazardous
waste.
