[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of Cuba Village 5-23-1977 as Ch. 59
of the 1977 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE
GARBAGE
LITTER
NEWSPAPER
PARK
PERSON
PRIVATE PREMISES
PUBLIC PLACE
REFUSE
RUBBISH
VEHICLES
VILLAGE
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
A litter storage and collection receptacle of steel, aluminum
or plastic, of 10 to 30 gallons' capacity, with a tight cover,
or a larger steel container with a closed lid.
Includes, but is not limited to garbage, burnable and nonburnable
rubbish, refuse, glass, wastepaper, rags and scrap wood, but shall
exclude and not include dead animals, fecal matter, explosives, volatile
or flammable liquids, tires, batteries, waste oil and any other material,
substance or article which is not acceptable at Allegany County waste
transfer stations for collection purposes by the County of Allegany.[1]
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 the public health, safety and welfare
or tends to create blight.
Newsprint and all newspapers and newspaper advertisements,
supplements, comics and enclosures. It shall not mean magazines, books,
telephone books or glossy ads such as junk mail and newspaper inserts.[2]
A park, reservation, playground, recreation center or any
other public area in the village, owned or operated by the village
and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any house, building or other structure not owned or operated
by the village, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited
or vacant, including any yard, ground, parking lot, walk, driveway,
porch steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such
house, building or other structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
See "garbage."[3]
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as but not limited to paper wrappings,
cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding and crockery.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or public street.
Cuba Village.
B.
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in
the present tense include the future; words used in the plural number
include the singular; words used in the singular number include the
plural; and words in the masculine include the feminine and the neuter.
The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place within the village except in public receptacles
or in authorized private receptacles for collection.
B.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized private
receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being
carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or
other public place or upon private property.
C.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other
public place within the village the accumulation of litter from any
building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway.
D.
Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front
of their premises free of litter.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter from any vehicle upon any
street or other public place within the village or upon private property.
B.
No person shall drive or move any vehicle or truck within the village,
the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any street,
alley or other public place sticky substances or foreign matter of
such kind as adheres to the road surface.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the village
except in public receptacles and in such a 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 or private
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, as provided herein.
B.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any pond, river, stream
or other body of water within the village.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any private property within
the village, whether owned by such person or not and whether occupied
or vacant, except that the owner or person in control of private property
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, sidewalk or other public place or
upon private property.
B.
The owner or person in control of private property or
any portion thereof shall at all times maintain the premises or that
portion controlled by him/her free of litter, except when stored properly
in authorized private receptacles for collection, when such person
shall have actual notice thereof or when said litter shall have been
present a sufficient length of time to constitute constructive notice.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this
chapter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a violation pursuant
to the Penal Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine not
exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation of an offense
shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate
and distinct violation.
