[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Lumberton 12-17-1973 as Ord. No. 1973-16 (part of Ch. IV of
the 1973 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other
waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
All streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, beaches or other
public ways and all public parks, squares, spaces, docks, grounds
and buildings.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, except body
wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial waste.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard,
tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and
similar materials.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall sweep, throw, deposit or dump
litter in or on any property, whether occupied or vacant and whether
owned by that person, or upon or in a public place or pond, lake or
stream or other body of water within the township, except in public
receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles
or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in a manner which
prevents the litter from being carried or deposited by the elements
upon a public place or upon private property.
No person, including merchants owning or occupying
a place of business, shall sweep into or deposit in a gutter, road,
right-of-way or other public place within the township the accumulation
of litter from a building or lot or from a public or private sidewalk
or driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk
in front of their premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a
vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any public or private
property.
No person shall bring, cart, remove, transport
or collect any litter from outside the township and bring it into
the township for the purpose of dumping or disposing thereof. No truck
or other vehicle containing litter which has been transported into
the township shall be parked or allowed to remain standing on any
street in the township or on any public property for a period in excess
of two hours.
Advertisements, handbills, circulars and papers
may be distributed in the township only if they are so securely placed
at each dwelling that they will not be blown away by the wind. Otherwise,
no person shall place any advertisement, handbill, circular or paper
on or in any public street, sidewalk, building or vehicle within the
township.
[Added 8-3-1992 by Ord.
No. 1992-6; amended 12-5-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-19]
Any person, firm, corporation, association or legal party whatsoever who shall violate, or authorize or procure a violation, or cause to be violated, any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided under § 1-11 governing general penalty provisions. If the state requires, limits or expands potential minimum or maximum penalties in contradiction to this chapter, state law shall apply.
