[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Stillwater 3-7-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
This chapter shall be cited and may be referred
to hereinafter as the "Littering and Dumping Law of the Town of Stillwater."
For purposes of this chapter, the following
terms shall be defined as follows:
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food and material
such as paper, cardboard, wood, cloth, food cans, glass containers
and bottles.
Any person, employee, servant, agent, firm, partnership,
association, company or organization or entity of any kind.
Includes parking areas, rights-of-way, parks, trails, grounds
or other public areas.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes including
garbage, rubbish and ashes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes including ashes, consisting of
both combustible and noncombustible wastes such as yard clippings,
metals, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, household appliances, shopping
carts, automobiles or parts thereof, construction debris, demolition
debris and similar materials.
Includes any public street, roadway, highway, lane or alleyway.
No person shall deposit, throw, cast, lay or
suffer or permit any other person to deposit, throw, cast or lay any
waste, litter, rubbish, refuse, garbage, debris, construction debris,
demolition debris, discarded objects, materials and/or matter of any
type on any street or public place in the Town.
No person shall abandon or discard or cause
or suffer any other person to abandon or discard any article or thing
including, but not limited to, shopping carts or shopping wagons,
baskets, crates, boxes, cartons, yard supplies, household appliances,
automobiles or parts thereof, machinery or equipment, rubbish, refuse
or garbage in any street or public place in the Town.
No person, being the owner, driver or manager
of an automobile or other vehicle shall deposit, scatter, blow, drop,
spill or permit to be deposited, scattered, blown, dropped or spilled
any dirt, gravel, sand, clay, loam, stone or building rubbish or materials,
shavings, rubbish, litter, waste materials, automobiles or parts thereof,
machinery, refuse or garbage therefrom upon any street or public place
in the Town. Town Highway Department personnel performing assigned
highway work shall not be considered in violation of the terms of
this section or any other section of this chapter.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall be guilty of a violation punishable as follows:
A.
For the first offense, imprisonment for a period not
to exceed 15 days, or by fine, the minimum of which shall be $50 and
the maximum of which shall be $1,000 and appropriate community service
related to solid waste management and cleanup for a period not to
be less than eight hours.
B.
For a second and subsequent offense, imprisonment
for a period not to exceed 30 days, or by fine, the minimum of which
shall be $100 and the maximum of which shall be $1,000 and appropriate
community service related to solid waste management and cleanup for
a period not to be less than 16 hours.
