[Adopted 6-19-1974 by L.L. No. 4-1974 as Ch. 26 of the 1974 Code]
All garbage, kitchen wastes and other rubbish at dwellings and business establishments shall be deposited in suitable covered receptacles, which shall be protected from flies and animals and shall be emptied and cleaned as often as necessary to keep them and their surroundings in a sanitary condition and free from objectionable odors. The contents shall be burned, buried or otherwise disposed of in such a way as not to become offensive or insanitary or create insect-breeding places or rodent harborages.
No garbage cans or receptacles may be placed at the road or highway in front of or near a building, or elsewhere, unless the owner, resident or tenant has arranged for regular garbage collection or is in a garbage disposal district. Garbage cans or receptacles may, in any event, be placed at a road or highway only on garbage collection days and must be removed therefrom immediately after collection of garbage therefrom.
No garbage, refuse, putrescible matter, decayed fruits or vegetables, dead animals or material that pollutes water shall be deposited in any surface watercourse nor in any tributary to such watercourses, nor on or beneath the surface of the ground within 50 feet of surface watercourses or tributaries, nor in such a manner that it can be washed by rain, melting snow or otherwise over the surface or through the ground into such surface watercourses or their tributaries.
No person shall throw, cast, lay, deposit or break or discharge into or leave in any lake, brook, pond, stream or body of water or in any storm sewer, pipe or drain flowing into any of the foregoing any substance, matter or thing, liquid or solid, garbage, sewage, rubbish, waste, fruit, vegetables, foodstuffs, paper or other litter or obnoxious materials which may or shall result in the pollution of such water.
[Amended 8-18-1982 by L.L. No. 6-1982; 4-15-1998 by L.L. No. 5-1998]
Any person who shall violate this article is guilty of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be penalized by a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment. The Code Enforcement Officer shall have the authority to issue an appearance ticket pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Law § 150.20 in the enforcement of this article.