[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Mendham as Sec. 3-1 of the 1998 Revised General Ordinances. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meaning indicated:
The placement of yard waste in a trash can, bucket, bag or
other vessel, such as to prevent the yard waste from spilling or blowing
out into the street and coming into contact with stormwater.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 7-2006]
Putrescible animal and vegetable waste resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
That the pet solid waste is removed at once, without delay.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which
has been discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber,
paper, or other natural or synthetic material, or any combination
thereof, including, but not limited to, any bottle, jar or can, or
any top, cap or detachable tab of any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted
cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming or glowing material or any
garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other
lawn or garden waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal, plastic
or paper containers or other packaging or construction material, but
does not include the waste of the primary processes of mining or other
extraction processes, logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing.
[Amended 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
A container suitable for the depositing of litter.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
A conveyance or system of conveyances (including roads with
drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) that is owned or operated
by the Township of Mendham or other public body, and is designed and
used for collecting and conveying stormwater.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 8-2006]
Any person who shall possess, maintain, house or harbor any
pet or otherwise have custody of any pet, whether or not the owner
of such pet.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006; amended 3-13-2006 by Ord. No.
7-2006; 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 8-2006]
A domesticated animal (other than a disability assistance
animal) kept for amusement or companionship.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
Waste matter expelled from the bowels of the pet; excrement.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
Placement in a designated waste receptacle, or other suitable
container, and discarded in a refuse container which is regularly
emptied by the municipality or some other refuse collector; or disposal
into a system designed to convey domestic sewage for proper treatment
and disposal.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
All streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, beaches or other
public ways, and all public parks, squares, spaces, docks, grounds
and buildings.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (except body
wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial waste.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard,
tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, woods, glass, bedding, crockery
and similar materials.
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewerage or drainage
facilities, or is conveyed by snow removal equipment.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 8-2006]
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive,
or other way, which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway,
and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved or
unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs,
sidewalks, parking areas and other areas within the street lines.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 7-2006]
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
Leaves and grass clippings.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 7-2006]
[Amended 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
A.Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, drop, discard or otherwise
place any litter of any nature upon public or private property other
than in a litter receptacle, or having done so, to allow such litter
to remain.
B.Â
The owner or occupant of any property, or any employee or contractor
of such owner or occupant engaged to provide lawn care or landscaping
services, shall not sweep, rake, blow or otherwise place yard waste,
unless the yard waste is containerized, in the street. If yard waste
that is not containerized is placed in the street, the party responsible
for placement of yard waste much remove the yard waste from the street
or said party shall be deemed in violation of this chapter.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 7-2006]
C.Â
The spilling, dumping, or disposal of materials other than stormwater
to the municipal separate storm sewer system operated by the Township
of Mendham is prohibited. The spilling, dumping or disposal of materials
other than stormwater in such a manner as to cause the discharge of
pollutants to the municipal separate storm sewer system is also prohibited.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 8-2006]
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 8-2006]
A.Â
Water line flushing and discharges from potable water sources.
B.Â
Uncontaminated groundwater (e.g. infiltration, crawl space or basement
sump pumps, foundation or footing drains, rising groundwaters).
C.Â
Air-conditioning condensate (excluding contact and noncontact cooling
water).
D.Â
Irrigation water (including landscape and lawn-watering runoff).
E.Â
Flows from springs, riparian habitats and wetlands, water reservoir
discharges and diverted stream flows.
F.Â
Residential car washing water and residential swimming pool discharges.
G.Â
Sidewalk, driveway and street wash water.
H.Â
Flows from firefighting activities.
I.Â
Flows from rinsing of the following equipment with clean water:
(1)Â
Beach maintenance equipment immediately following their use for their
intended purposes;
(2)Â
Equipment used in the application of salt and deicing material applications.
Prior to rinsing with clean water, all residual salt and deicing materials
must be removed from equipment and vehicles to the maximum extent
practicable using dry cleaning methods (e.g., shoveling and sweeping).
Recovered materials are to be returned to storage for reuse or properly
discarded; and
(3)Â
Rinsing of equipment, as noted in the above situation, is limited
to exterior, undercarriage and exposed parts and does not apply to
engines or other enclosed machinery.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized
private receptacles shall do so in a manner which prevents the litter
from being carried or deposited by the elements upon a public place
or upon private property.
No person, including merchants owning or occupying a place of
business, shall sweep into or deposit in a gutter, road, right-of-way
or other public place within the Township the accumulation of litter
from a building or lot or from a public or private sidewalk or driveway.
Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front
of their premises free of litter.
[Amended 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
Whenever any litter is thrown or discarded or allowed to fall
from a vehicle or boat in violation of this chapter, the operator
or owner, or both, of the motor vehicle or boat shall also be deemed
to have violated this chapter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 3-1.6, Transportation from
Outside Township, which immediately followed this section, was repealed
11-14-2005 by Ord. No. 14-2005.
Advertisement, handbills, circulars and papers may be distributed
in the Township only if they are so securely placed at each dwelling
that they will not be blown away by the wind; otherwise, no person
shall place any advertisement, handbill, circular or paper on or in
any public street, sidewalk, building or vehicle within the Township.
[Added by Ord. No. 1-1990; amended by Ord. No.
4-1991]
A.Â
Accumulation of construction waste prohibited. No person in charge
of or responsible for any construction work on any lot within the
Township shall permit or allow the accumulation of any litter or waste
building materials on such lot, nor shall such person store any construction
materials, waste building materials or litter outside of any building
in a manner that is likely to cause any of the foregoing to be carried
by the forces of nature onto any adjacent property or street right-of-way.
B.Â
Disposition of tree stumps, brush. No person in charge of or responsible
for construction work on any lot within the Township shall permit
or allow the accumulation upon such lot of any tree parts, tree stumps
or brush. Unless chipped, such materials shall be disposed of beyond
the limits of the Township in a manner that complies with all applicable
state regulations for solid waste disposal.
[Added by Ord. No. 1-1990]
A.Â
Every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or other person in charge of
any building or structure within the Township shall keep and cause
to be kept any sidewalk, curb or other public areas abutting the property
upon which the building or structure is located free from litter and
other debris.
B.Â
All pet owners and keepers are required to immediately and properly
dispose of their pet's solid waste deposited on any property,
public or private, not owned or possessed by that person.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
[Added by Ord. No. 1-1992]
No person shall operate or otherwise move any vehicle upon any
public street within the Township unless the vehicle is constructed,
loaded or covered so as to prevent any of the contents of the vehicle
from being dropped, scattered or blown upon the street or upon any
public or private property.
[Added 2-28-2006 by Ord. No. 4-2006]
Any owner or keeper who requires the use of a disability assistance
animal shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter while such
animal is being used for that purpose.
[Added 3-13-2006 by Ord. No. 7-2006; amended 3-13-2006 by Ord. No.
8-2006]
Penalties shall be subject to a fine in the maximum amount permitted
by law.
