As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes but is not limited to waste from the preparation, cooking
and consumption of food; metal, glass, plastic and paper containers for food
and household products; and paper, cartons, rags, dead animals, putrescible
substances, sewage and similar disposable items.
Dry combustible or noncombustible material, which shall include but
is not limited to ashes, magazines, books, newspapers, clothing, wooden crates
and pieces of metal, junk, discarded furniture, rugs and carpets.
Includes but is not limited to lumber, building materials, concrete,
rocks, fill, topsoil, inoperable or wrecked automobiles, automobile parts,
plumbing fixtures, household appliances, leaves, branches, grass, tree stumps
and limbs.
No person shall throw, place, litter, deposit or dump or suffer or permit
any servant, agent, employee or person in his charge to throw, place, litter,
deposit or dump any garbage, rubbish or trash of any kind on the surface of
any street, public grounds or private property in the village for the purpose
of abandonment or otherwise.
The owner of any private property in the village shall at all times
maintain said premises free of garbage, rubbish and trash, except that this
section shall not prohibit the temporary storage of garbage and rubbish in
authorized private receptacles for collection or trash in connection with
bona fide land clearing and building activity or the making and retaining
of a compost heap and mulching area for normal gardening purposes in accordance
with customary gardening practices, provided that said compost heap or mulching
area is located at least 40 feet from any boundary line of the property upon
which it is located.
A.
Notice to remove. The Police Department, Street Commissioner
or Building Inspector of the village is hereby authorized and empowered to
notify, in writing, the owner of any private property in the village to properly
dispose of any garbage, rubbish or trash located on such owner's property.
Such notice shall be served personally upon said owner or be sent by certified
mail, return receipt requested, addressed to said owner at his last known
address.
B.
Action upon noncompliance. Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any such owner so notified to properly dispose of such garbage, rubbish or trash within 20 days after receipt of written notice provided for in Subsection A above, or within 25 days after the date of such notice in the event that the same is returned to the village by the Post Office Department because of its inability to make delivery thereof, provided that the same was properly addressed to the last known address of such owner, the Police Department, Street Commissioner or Building Inspector of the village is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the disposing of such garbage, rubbish and trash or to order its disposal by the village.
C.
Charge included in tax bill. When the village has effected
the removal of such garbage, rubbish and trash from such private property
or has paid for its removal, the actual cost of such removal, plus accrued
interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the date of the completion of the
work, if not paid by such owner prior thereto, shall be assessed against such
property, which assessment shall be included in the next succeeding annual
bill for village taxes for such property and shall become a lien thereon when
such taxes become a lien.
