[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Crawford 9-13-1971
by L.L. No. 3-1971. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A clean, wholesome, attractive environment is declared to be of importance
to the health and safety of the inhabitants of the Town of Crawford and to
the safeguarding of their material rights against unwarrantable invasion and
for the protection of public health, and, in addition, such an environment
is deemed essential to the maintenance and continued development of the economy
of the Town and the general welfare of its citizens. It is further declared
that the establishment or operation of private dumps, dumping grounds, refuse
disposal areas, landfill sites or similar land uses is a hazard to such health,
safety and welfare of the citizens of the Town, necessitating the elimination
thereof. At the same time, it is recognized that the maintenance of a public
dump, dumping ground, refuse disposal area or landfill site owned and operated
by the Town is useful and necessary. It is hereby declared that the prohibition
of private dumps, dumping grounds, refuse disposal areas or landfill sites
or other similar use for the deposit, burying or disposal, in any matter whatsoever,
of offal, garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish and like wastes and the maintenance
of a public dump, dumping ground, refuse disposal area or landfill site is
necessary to provide a single confined area for disposal of waste which will
facilitate the inspection of facilities for disposal of waste and facilitate
the enforcement of sanitary regulations.
No lands other than lands of a public dump or dumping ground heretofore
or hereafter established by this Town shall be used as a dump, dumping ground
or refuse disposal area or as a landfill site in said Town.
The use of land by anyone, even by the owner or anyone acting with or
under his permission, as a private dump, dumping ground, refuse disposal area
or landfill site is prohibited, and the use of said land for the deposit,
burying or disposal, in any matter whatsoever, of all offal, garbage, trash,
refuse, rubbish, debris and like waste is also hereby prohibited.
This chapter shall not prohibit the establishment, by the Town Board,
of public dumps, dumping grounds, refuse disposal areas or landfill sites
owned and operated by the Town, from time to time.
A.Â
Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall
be subject to a penalty in the sum of not more than $100. Each such deposit
of waste material on lands within the Town of Crawford not established as
a public dump, dumping ground, refuse disposal area or landfill site shall
constitute a separate violation of this chapter. Each day lands are so used
as a dump, dumping ground, refuse disposal area or landfill site shall constitute
a separate violation. Each separate violation shall be punishable as herein
set forth.
B.Â
The Town Board, in the name of the Town, or any person
aggrieved may maintain a legal or equitable action or proceeding in any court
of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with or to restrain by injunction
the violation of any provision of this chapter.
