[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Baldwinsville 9-22-1969 by L.L. No. 3-1969 (Ch. 44 of the 1971 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Unsafe buildings — See Ch. 131.
Parks — See Ch. 229.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 248.
Solid waste — See Ch. 275.
Unregistered or inoperable vehicles — See Ch. 331.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Litter Control Law of the Village of Baldwinsville."
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words, phrases and terms and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. 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. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE
A litter storage and collection receptacle of steel, aluminum or plastic, of ten- to thirty-gallon capacity with tight cover, or larger steel container with closed lid.
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
HANDBILL
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature.
LITTER
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 public health, safety and welfare or tends to create blight.
NEWSPAPER
A printed publication issued at regular intervals, including any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the public, commonly containing news, comment, features and advertisements; including any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with federal statute or regulation.
PARK
A park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any other public area in the city, owned or operated by the city and devoted to active or passive recreation.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any house, building or other structure not owned or operated by the city, 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.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, ground and buildings.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleaning, dead animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible wastes such as, but not limited to, paper wrappings, cardboard, tin cans, wood, glass, bedding, crockery.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or public street.
VILLAGE
The Village of Baldwinsville.
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 truck or other vehicle within the Village unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place or private property.
C. 
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 which 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, 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 any other body of water in a park or elsewhere 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, 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.
A. 
In public places. No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the Village. No person shall hand out or distribute any handbill in any public place except to persons willing to accept it.
B. 
On vehicles. No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any vehicle; except it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute a handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
C. 
On private property. No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any private premises which are:
(1) 
Temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant;
(2) 
Posted with a sign placed in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof bearing the words "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisements" or words of similar import indicating the desire of the occupants not to have such handbills left upon such premises, or where an occupant expressly directs the person not to throw, deposit or distribute the handbill on the premises;
(3) 
Inhabited, but not posted or subject to an express warning by an occupant, except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to an occupant, unless he places or deposits any such handbill so as to secure or prevent it from being blown or drifted about the premises or sidewalks, streets or other public ways.
D. 
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States, nor to newspapers (as defined herein), except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
[Added 7-18-1994 by L.L. No. 7-1994]
If the assessed owner of property does not remove any debris described in this chapter within five days of notice duly mailed to said owner, the Superintendent of Public Works shall be authorized to remove or contract for removal of said debris and dispose of the same, and all costs of removal shall be assessed against said property and collected in the manner provided by law. These charges shall be in addition to any other penalties and/or fines assessed pursuant to this chapter.
[Amended 7-18-1994 by L.L. No. 7-1994]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $250 or be punished by a penalty of not exceeding $250 to be recovered by the Village of Baldwinsville in a civil action. Every day of such violation may be held to constitute a separate offense. As an alternative, upon violation of this chapter, the Village, in addition to other remedies, may institute an action or proceeding, including an injunction to prevent violation of this chapter.