[Adopted 3-23-2004 by Ord. No. 104-04]
The purpose of this article is to prohibit littering and dumping
in and on public streets and public lands in the Borough of Bloomsbury.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The Borough of Bloomsbury.
The Council of the Borough of Bloomsbury.
Includes garbage, refuse and rubbish and all other waste
material which, if thrown, deposited or stored as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to the public health, safety and welfare.
Includes any person, firm, partnership, corporation, club,
society or any other form of association or organization and shall
include both the singular and plural.
Includes any and every public place within the Borough which
is within the jurisdiction or under the control of the Council, or
other local municipal body or other governmental entity, or which
is or which may be open to and used by the general public. This shall
include but not be limited to any park, playground, parking area,
or open space, and also includes any property under the control of
the Board of Education of the Borough of Bloomsbury or the County
of Hunterdon or the State of New Jersey.
Includes any highway, road, avenue, boulevard, court, public
lane, alley, sidewalk, footpath and any other area dedicated for public
passage and travel.
No person, without the permission of the Council or its duly
authorized representative, shall throw, sweep, cast, put or place,
or direct, suffer or permit any servant, agent or employee to throw,
sweep, cast, put or place, in or upon any street, sidewalk, gutter,
public alley, parking area or other public place within the Borough
any dirt, wastepaper, garbage, filth, ashes, offal, vegetables, dross,
cinders, shells, straw, shavings, broken glass, crockery, bottle,
can, carton, container or any rubbish or refuse or litter of any kind
whatsoever.
[Amended 3-22-2016 by Ord. No. 103-16]
A.
No one
who is an owner, driver, operator or conductor of a car, wagon, truck
or other vehicle of any kind shall scatter, drop or spill or permit
to be scattered, dropped or spilled any dirt, sand, mud, gravel, clay,
loam, stone, traprock, nails, paint, cement, lime or other building
materials; hay, straw, sawdust, shavings, bottles, glass, paper or
other light materials of any sort; or manufacturing, trade or household
waste, refuse, rubbish, ashes, manure, garbage or other organic refuse
or any offensive matter in or upon any street or public place within
the Borough.
B.
No person shall cast, place, sweep or deposit any grass clippings,
brush, sod or other refuse in such a manner that it may be carried
or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk, alley, sewer,
parkway or other public place with the Borough.
C.
No person shall place any garbage or industrial waste in any street,
alley or other public place or upon any private property, whether
owned by such person or not, except in proper containers for collection;
neither shall any person throw or deposit any garbage, refuse or any
industrial waste in any stream or storm drain.
[Amended 10-23-2012 by Ord. No. 106-12]
Any person who violates any provision of this article, or any notice or order issued pursuant thereto, shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in Chapter 1, Article I, General Penalty, of this Code. Each day during which a violation of this article continues shall be deemed a new and separate offense.
