[Adopted 4-5-1976 by L.L. No. 1-1976 as Art. 4 of the 1976
Municipal Code]
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; paper, cartons, rags, dead animals,
putrescible substances and similar disposable items.
Dry combustible or noncombustible materials which shall include
but not be limited to ashes, magazines, books, newspapers, clothing,
wooden crates and pieces of metal, junk, discarded furniture, rugs
and carpets.
Includes any street, highway, road, avenue, lane, court,
place or drive which appears on the Official Map of the Village and
which two or more property owners have a legal right to use.
Includes but is not limited to building materials, concrete
fill, inoperable or wrecked automobiles, automobile parts, plumbing
fixtures and household appliances.
Includes any street, highway, road, avenue, lane, court,
place or drive which is maintained by the Village.
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,
except when such garbage, rubbish or trash is placed on the street
in a proper container for normal garbage collection and except for
building materials, concrete, fill, plumbing fixtures and household
appliances on private property for the purpose of immediate installation
or use on such private property.
No person, firm or corporation, unless with the consent and
under the supervision of the Roadways Commissioner of the Village,
shall cause or permit any accumulation of sand, gravel, cinder, topsoil,
mud, swimming pool water, sewage, earth or material to be placed,
deposited, tracked or flowed upon any Village street in the Village.
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:
A.
The temporary storage of garbage, rubbish and trash in authorized
private receptacles for collection and trash in connection with bona
fide land clearing and building activity pursuant to an issued building
permit.
B.
The maintaining of a wood pile.
C.
The making and retaining of a compost heap and mulching areas for
normal gardening purposes in accordance with customary gardening practices.
The 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 or be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested,
addressed to said owner at his last known address or, upon inability
to deliver such notice to said owner by certified mail, by securely
affixing a copy of such notice on the premises involved.
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 the written notice provided for in § 65-5 above or within 25 days after the date of such notice in the event that the same is returned to the Village by the United States Postal Service because of its inability to make delivery thereof, provided that the same was properly addressed to the last known address of such owner, the 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.
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 maximum
interest rate allowed by law from the date of the completion of the
work, if not paid by said 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.
