[Adopted 9-15-1975 by Ord. No. 416 (Ch. XX, Part 1, of the
1975 Borough Code)]
[Amended 11-10-1980 by Ord. No. 486; 6-28-1993 by Ord. No. 588; 12-16-2002 by Ord. No. 661]
A.
BULKY WASTE
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USER
CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE
DOMESTIC USER
GARBAGE
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE
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OVERSIZED REFUSE ITEMS
PERSON
REFUSE
RESIDUAL WASTE
RUBBISH
WHITE GOODS
For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto:
Items of solid waste which, due to their size, shape or weight,
cannot be collected as a part of the normal weekly municipal waste
collection and, therefore, require special handling. Bulky waste includes,
but is not limited to, large auto parts, machinery or parts thereof,
tools, plumbing fixtures, skids, furniture, or any acceptable item
that does not fit in to a regular thirty-three-gallon refuse receptacle.
White goods, tires and electronic waste are not considered bulky waste.
Signifies each separate business, commercial, institutional
or industrial user and includes churches, schools or any other separate
user, whether contained in its own unit or in a complex, not classified
as a domestic user.
Lumber, roofing material, sheathing, rubble, broken concrete,
macadam, plaster, brick, conduit, pipe, insulation and other material
which results from a construction, demolition or remodeling process.
The term also includes street sweepings and nonfriable (nonflake)
asbestos.
Signifies a single-family unit, either housed in a single-family
home, duplex house unit, apartment building or any other complex,
but shall not include public or nonprofit elderly housing.
All table refuse, animal and vegetable matter, offal from
meat, fish and fowls, fruits, vegetables and parts thereof and other
articles and materials ordinarily used for food which have become
unfit for use or which are for any reason discarded.
A portion of regulated municipal solid waste that would be
considered hazardous under Pennsylvania Act 97 but is produced in
quantities smaller than those regulated as hazardous waste under Pennsylvania
Act 97 and is generated by persons not otherwise covered as hazardous
waste generators by Act 97.[1] "Household hazardous waste" includes the following materials
and other materials of a similar nature:
Antifreeze.
Batteries.
Chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Gasoline and kerosene.
Grease and rust solvents.
Oven, toilet and drain cleaners.
Paints, rust preventatives, stains and wood preservatives (in
liquid or gas form).
Pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides
and roach and ant killers.
Photographic and pool chemicals.
Thinners, solvents and furniture strippers.
Transmission and brake fluids.
Used oil or other hydrocarbon.
Wood, metal, rug and upholstery cleaners and polishes.
A piece of refuse which will not fit into a refuse container
but which is not bulky waste, including a small piece of furniture,
carpet, and any acceptable item less than six feet in any dimension
and less than 45 pounds in total weight. Tires, white goods and electronic
waste are not acceptable items.
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
All discarded articles and material, except sewage and liquid
waste, resulting from ordinary household and commercial pursuits and
including garbage, rubbish, ashes and incombustible waste.
Garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining and agricultural operations and
sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment
facility, wastewater treatment facility or air pollution control facility,
provided that it is not hazardous.
All discarded articles or material resulting from ordinary
household or commercial pursuits, and in the nature of paper, cloth,
wooden articles or material and other readily combustible articles
or material.
Large appliances (i.e., weighing more than 50 pounds) including
the following:
[1]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq.
B.
In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural
shall include the singular and the masculine shall include the feminine
and the neuter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into the Borough
of Palmyra any refuse for the sole or major purpose of disposing of
the same or having it disposed of.
[Amended 12-26-1989 by Ord. No. 556]
All refuse originating within the Borough of Palmyra shall be
accumulated, stored, collected, removed from the premises and disposed
of only as provided in this article, under the direction of the Borough
Council. No person shall hereafter dispose of any garbage or refuse
from any premises in the Borough except by conveyance of the same
to a sanitary landfill operated by the Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority.
[Amended 11-10-1980 by Ord. No. 486; 6-28-1993 by Ord. No. 588; 12-16-2002 by Ord. No. 661]
A.
All domestic users shall provide sufficient receptacles for the storage
of refuse pending collection. Such receptacles shall be of a capacity
of not more than 33 gallons which are constructed of plastic, metal
or fiberglass, having handles of adequate strength for lifting and
having a watertight lid capable of preventing entrance into the container
by vectors, or a plastic bag which is specifically designed for storage
and collection, is protected against animal damage and overloading
so as to prevent littering or attraction of insects or rodents and
has a holding strength capable of withstanding normal stresses until
it is collected. The weight of any receptacle and its contents shall
not exceed 45 pounds.
B.
The Borough Council shall have the authority, from time to time,
to issue regulations pertaining to the placement of containers for
collection and collection schedule. The Council shall also have the
authority to require that commercial and industrial users place all
refuse for collection in a special large container placed in the vicinity
of the premises and designed for use with particular collection vehicles
or equipment. Any property with four or more domestic users may be
required to use the commercial-type special container.
[Amended 6-28-1993 by Ord. No. 588; 12-16-2002 by Ord. No. 661]
A.
The Borough Refuse Collection System established by authority of
this article shall be intended only for the collection of refuse ordinarily
or normally accumulated in the conduct of a household or a commercial
undertaking. Unusual or special refuse is specifically provided in
this section and the Borough Council may, from time to time, establish
special collection days and charges for pickup of said refuse.
B.
Ashes resulting from the burning of coal may be placed in separate
refuse containers and placed adjacent to other refuse containers.
All other ash from the burning of wood, coke and other combustibles
shall be placed with the normal refuse. The Borough will establish,
from time to time, special collection days for bulky waste which shall
not be stored outside of a building except for a period within seven
days of the established collection day. The Borough will collect construction
and demolition waste placed in dumpsters rented from the Borough which
results from work activity conducted by the property owner, but all
construction and demolition waste from activity of a contractor must
be collected and hauled by the contractor. The Borough will collect
oversized refuse items during the weekly collection schedule; however,
each property shall be limited to no more than one oversized refuse
item per week.
C.
The Borough will not collect household hazardous waste; residual
waste; white goods; grass clippings; chemotherapeutic; drums, barrels,
buckets and paint cans unless lids have been removed and are either
cleaned and free of any residue or the residue is solidified and nonhazardous;
friable asbestos; explosives and ordnance materials; gas cylinders;
hazardous waste; infectious/pathological waste; liquid waste (i.e.,
containing less than 20% solids by weight flowable); radioactive materials,
other than naturally occurring; solid waste generated outside of the
Borough; and tires.
D.
The Borough will collect leaves curbside during preannounced collection
periods. The Borough will collect trimmings and debris of brush, trees
and plants, once a week on a biweekly basis through the spring and
monthly during the summer during the off week of commingled recycling
collection. Preparation for collection should occur in the following
manner:
(1)
Less than one inch in diameter: should be placed in an open container(s)
made of plastic, metal or fiberglass and be of no greater capacity
than 33 gallons or weigh more than 45 pounds with its contents. Containers
should have ventilation holes at the bottom to let water drain during
rain. Containers may have lids; however, they must then be clearly
marked "YARD WASTE." Yard waste containers should be placed for collection
adjacent to refuse containers.
(2)
Greater than one inch in diameter: should be placed in a neatly stacked
pile with all cut ends facing in the same direction and placed for
chipping adjacent to refuse and/or yard waste containers.
Whenever the Borough Council shall find that any garbage, rubbish
or refuse shall have been accumulated, stored or dumped anywhere in
the Borough in conflict with any provision of this or any other ordinance
of the Borough, it may notify the owner or occupant of the premises
whereon such garbage, rubbish or refuse shall be found, by certified
mail, to remove the same within five days after the date of such notice.
If the same shall not have been removed and lawfully disposed of within
such time limit, the Borough shall have authority to cause the same
to be removed and disposed of and shall collect the cost of such removal
and disposal, with an additional amount of 10% thereof, from such
owner or occupant in default.
[Amended 12-16-2002 by Ord. No. 661; 10-27-2015 by Ord. No. 765; 12-20-2018 by Ord. No. 791]
Every person who shall violate any provision of this article,
or of any rule or regulation adopted by authority of this article,
shall, for each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000
and costs of prosecution, including the Borough's reasonable attorneys'
fees, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment
for not more than 30 days, provided that each day's violation of any
provision of this article shall constitute a separate violation.
[Added 9-23-1991 by Ord. No. 568; 12-20-2018 by Ord. No. 791]
Owners of apartments having more than eight units per property
may elect to have their collected garbage, rubbish and/or refuse picked
up and disposed of by the Borough of Palmyra (either by Borough employees
or by a contractor retained by the Borough) or may contract for those
pickup and disposal services with a private contractor.
