[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Hillsborough 6-12-1973 by Ord. No. 73-10; amended in its entirety 12-11-1990
by Ord. No. 90-20. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which has been
discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber, paper or other
natural or synthetic material or any combination thereof, including but not
limited to any bottle, jar or can or any top, cap or detachable tab of any
bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming or
glowing material or any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings
or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazines, glass, metal, plastic
or paper containers or other package or construction material, but does not
include the waste of the primary processes of mining or other extraction processes,
logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing.
Includes sidewalks used by pedestrians in active retail commercially
zoned areas, buildings held out for use by the public, including schools,
government buildings and railroad and bus stations, parks, drive-in restaurants,
all street vendor locations, self-service refreshment areas, construction
sites, gasoline service station islands, shopping centers, parking lots and
special events to which the public is invited, including sporting events,
parades, carnivals, circuses and festivals.
A.
No person or corporation shall place or throw or cause
or permit to be placed or thrown into, on or upon any street, highway or public
place in the Township of Hillsborough, and no person or corporation shall
permit the continued placing or throwing into or on or upon any street, highway
or public place abutting on his or its property in the Township of Hillsborough,
any garbage, refuse, waste material, fruit, vegetable, paper, pasteboard,
glass, dirt, stones, wood, iron, mud, sand or any other refuse of any kind
whatsoever. With respect to such litter, said person or corporation is hereby
required to use litter receptacles whose servicing at such public places shall
be the responsibility of the municipality. Such litter receptacles shall be
situated so that, as to sidewalks used by pedestrians in active retail commercially
owned areas, there shall be no single linear quarter mile without such receptacle.
With respect to special events to which the public is invited, the proprietors
of such places or the sponsors of these events shall be responsible for providing
and servicing the receptacles such that adequate containerization is available.
B.
No person will be permitted to sweep into or deposit
in any gutter, street, catch basin or other public place any accumulation
of litter from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Every person who
owns or occupies property must keep the sidewalk in front of his or her premises
free of litter. All litter sweepings must be collected and properly containerized
for disposal.
C.
It is the duty of the owner, lessee, tenant, occupant
or person in charge of any structure to keep and cause to be kept the sidewalk
and curb abutting the building or structure free from obstruction or nuisances
of every kind and to keep sidewalks, areaways, backyards, courts and alleys
free of litter.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within this Township
except in public receptacles and in such manner that the litter will be prevented
from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any part of the park
or upon any street or other public place. Where public receptacles are not
provided, all such litter shall be carried away from the park by the person
responsible for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or
deposit litter upon any public place, street, highway, private premises or
commercial place.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied
private property or commercial place within the Township, whether owned by
such person or not, except that the owner or person in control of such private
property or commercial place may maintain authorized private receptacles for
collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried
or deposited by the elements upon any street, highway, sidewalk or other public
place or upon any private property.
B.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or
vacant private property within the Township, whether owned by such person
or not.
A.
Each owner or person in control of any commercial place,
including delivery and parking areas connected therewith, shall keep said
place, parking areas, delivery areas and other open spaces which are part
of such commercial place free from litter and shall prevent such litter from
being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, highway, sidewalk
or other public place or upon any private property.
B.
The owner or person in control of any private property
shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter; provided, however,
that this subsection shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized
private receptacles for collection.
C.
The owner or person in control of any property is hereby
prohibited from maintaining open or overflowing commercial, industrial or
residential waste disposal bins.
A.
It shall be unlawful to haul or transport dirt, sand,
stone, ashes or any other material in the Township in such manner as to spill
or drop any such material on any part of the sidewalk, streets, highways or
public places of the Township. Any vehicle used for the hauling or transporting
of such material shall be constructed of sufficient strength, compactness
and tightness to prevent the seeping or dropping of any material through cracks,
crevices or openings therein.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or entity
to transport any material in a manner that will cause laying down or accumulating
of dirt, mud, sand, sticky substances or the like on the surfaces of the streets
and highways or any public place in the Township.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or entity
to drive or move any vehicle or truck within Hillsborough boundary lines,
the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any street, highway
or public place mud, dirt, sand, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter
of any kind.
D.
It is unlawful for any vehicle to be driven, moved, stopped
or parked on any public roadway unless such a vehicle is constructed, covered
or loaded to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise
escaping therefrom. Any person operating a vehicle from which any materials
which constitute litter have fallen or escaped, which could cause an obstruction,
damage a vehicle or otherwise endanger travelers or public property, must
immediately cause the public property to be cleaned of all such materials
and must pay the cost thereof.
A.
Where construction is taking place adjacent to any Township
street or highway, there shall be a duty on the part of the property owner
thereof and any contractor working on said construction to clean up any mud,
spillage, dirt, etc., on the road in the vicinity of the construction project.
B.
It is unlawful for any owner, agent or contractor in
charge of a construction or demolition site to permit the accumulation of
litter before, during or immediately following completion of any construction
or demolition project. It is the duty of the owner, agent or contractor in
charge of a construction site to furnish containers adequate to accommodate
flyable or nonflyable debris or trash at areas convenient to construction
areas and to maintain and empty the receptacles in such a manner and with
such a frequency as to prevent the spillage of refuse.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to
discard or dump any household or commercial solid waste in any place not specifically
designated for the purpose of solid waste storage or disposal.
B.
It is unlawful for any person to discard or dump along
any street or road on or off any right-of-way any household or commercial
solid waste, rubbish, refuse, junk vehicle or vehicle parts, rubber tires,
appliances, furniture or private property, except by written consent of the
owner of said property, in any place not specifically designated for the purpose
of solid waste storage or disposal.
In areas zoned residential, it shall be unlawful to store:
Anyone failing to obey this chapter may be given notice to clean up
the area and, in the event that it is not done to the satisfaction of the
Township authority within a period of 10 days, then the cleanup work shall
be done by the Township with the cost thereof charged to the property owners
and made a lien against the premises upon which this is done.
Any person, corporation or entity that violates any portion of this chapter or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, whether or not such person, corporation or entity has received any notice whatsoever from the Township, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed to be guilty of a Class C violation punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II. In addition, in the event the offense is one that arises from a construction project, the Zoning Officer is hereby authorized to issue a stop-work notice to the contractor until said condition is corrected.
