[Adopted 6-25-1956 by Ord. No. 364 (Ch. 10, Part 2A, of the
1987 Code of Ordinances)]
A.Â
ACCUMULATE
DISPOSAL AREA or DUMP
DUMP or DEPOSIT
GARBAGE
OWNER
PERSON
PROPERTY
RUBBISH
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
To gather, amass, pile, heap and collect garbage and/or rubbish
in Township and to fail to lawfully dispose of same.
A place where garbage and/or rubbish is regularly dumped,
deposited or placed by the owner of the property or with his consent
by collectors of garbage and/or rubbish and/or individuals.
The placing, throwing, dropping, abandoning, casting, sweeping,
unloading, putting, letting fall or leaving of garbage and/or rubbish.
All offal, table refuse, food scraps, bones, dead animals,
and all other animal and vegetable waste matter.
A person who is the registered owner of property situate
within the Township.
An individual, or individuals, a partnership or a corporation
owning and/or occupying property.
Land, buildings, and structures within the Township.
All refuse, junk, trash, dross, scrap, litter, papers, pasteboard,
rags, mattresses, worn out furniture, old clothing, old shoes, old
rubbers, leather, carpets, broken glass, crockery, bottles, straw,
excelsior, floor sweepings, old metal packing boxes and barrels and
broken parts thereof, tin cans, Christmas trees, tree cuttings, leaves,
grass cuttings, cut or pulled weeds and brush, household refuse, solid
industrial waste, and all other similar waste matters and materials
not defined herein as garbage.
B.Â
In this article, the singular shall include the plural and the masculine
shall include the feminine and the neuter.
[Amended 7-2-1958 by Ord. No. 402; 3-23-1959 by Ord. No. 428]
It shall be unlawful for the owner of property to use or allow
same to be used for the disposal of garbage and/or rubbish as a disposal
area or dump without first having obtained a license for same from
the Board of Commissioners of the Township. The application for such
permission must be in writing, stating types of refuse to be collected
and location of proposed dump and defining method of disposal of garbage
and/or rubbish. The fee for said license shall be $700 per annum,
payable by January 15 of each calendar year, and an additional fee
of 6% of gross dumping charges, to cover expenses of supervision of
said operation, which latter fee is to be payable quarterly by the
15th day of January, April, July and October. All licenses shall be
issued for the calendar year, or such portion thereof, as shall remain
after the beginning of any calendar year.
From and after the passage of this article burning of garbage
and/or rubbish by persons maintaining garbage and/or rubbish disposal
areas or dumps on private property within the Township shall be unlawful.
A.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to use private property within
the Township for the disposal of garbage and/or rubbish in such manner
so as to constitute a public nuisance, damage the health, welfare,
comfort and peace of the residents of said Township and cause a depreciation
in the real estate situate therein, and from and after the passage
of this article all garbage and/or rubbish disposed of within the
Township must be deposited only on land licensed under the provisions
hereof to be designated as sanitary landfills. The material deposited
must be compacted to at least 1/3 of its original volume by means
of heavy equipment of 10 tons in weight, such as a roller or bulldozer,
and covered with a layer of earth at the end of each day's operation.
When the depth of the compacted garbage, rubbish, industrial waste,
etc., reaches six feet, or when the finished elevation is reached,
the material deposited shall be covered with at least two feet of
earth or slag containing not more than 50% clay. The sanitary landfill
site must be provided with adequate surface drainage to prevent ponding
and/or erosion by rain water. The sanitary landfill operation must
be conducted in such a manner as to prevent insect and rodent infestation.
In addition, a fence must be constructed to capture all paper and
other wind-borne material and prevent it from blowing away from the
site of operation. Firefighting provisions approved by the Township
Fire Marshal must be provided at the site of the sanitary landfill.[1]
B.Â
It shall be unlawful for an owner or occupant of property within
the Township to accumulate or cause to accumulate garbage and/or rubbish
thereon and it shall be unlawful for any person to accumulate, store,
or scatter any garbage and/or rubbish on any public property.
C.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump or deposit any garbage
and/or rubbish on any public property, on any sidewalk or in or at
the side of any public street or highway in the Township unless the
same is placed there temporarily for collection and disposal by either
the Township or its agent or a contractor or for collection by a private
contractor engaged to collect such material by the owner or occupant
of the premises in front of which said material is placed, and unless
same be contained in sturdy containers and separated as may be required
for collection.[2]
D.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump or deposit garbage and/or
rubbish on any private property in the Township with or without the
express permission of the owner of such property; provided, however,
that the dumping of clean earth, ashes free from offensive or obnoxious
debris or any similar material free from any obnoxious or offensive
debris, and satisfactory for fill purposes, will be permitted; provided,
however, that such fill shall be kept level to a reasonable grade
and in a manner to avoid the accumulation of stagnant water, weeds
or other obnoxious or offensive material likely to constitute a public
nuisance or damage the health, welfare, comfort and peace of the residents
of said Township.
[Amended 11-16-1987 by Ord. No. 857; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 867]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $1,000 and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 30 days. Every day that a violation of this article continues
shall constitute a separate offense.