[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City
of Union City 1-7-1997 as § 4-1 of the 1996 Revised General Ordinances, as amended
through Ord. No. 2001-19. Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall litter, sweep, throw or cast, or direct, suffer
or permit any servant, agent, employee or other person under his/her
control, to litter, sweep, throw or cast any garbage, paper, dust
or other rubbish and refuse of any kind whatsoever, in or upon any
street or public place, vacant lot, air shaft, areaway, backyard,
court or alley.
A.
Every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or person in charge of any
building or premises shall keep and cause to be kept the sidewalk,
flagging and curbstone abutting the building or premises free from
obstructions and nuisances of every kind, and shall keep the sidewalks,
air shafts, areaways, backyards, courts and alleys free from garbage,
refuse, rubbish, litter and other offensive material.
B.
Sidewalks abutting commercial property shall be kept broom clean
at all times. All persons owning or occupying commercial property
shall remove any litter, garbage, refuse, rubbish or other offensive
material from the sidewalk in front of their premises prior to 11:00
a.m. each day.
No dry sand, hair, wastepaper, feathers or other substance that
is in a similar manner liable to be blown by the wind shall be sieved,
agitated or exposed, nor shall any mat, carpet or cloth be shaken
or beaten, nor shall any cloth, yarn, garment, material or substance
be scoured or cleaned, nor shall any rags, damaged merchandise, barrels,
boxes or broken bales of merchandise or goods be placed, kept or exposed
in any place where they or particles therefrom will pass into any
street or public place or into any occupied premises, nor shall any
usual or any reasonable precautions be omitted by any person to prevent
fragments or any substances from falling to the detriment or peril
of life or health, or dust or light material flying into any street,
place or building, from any building or erection, while the same is
being altered, repaired, demolished or otherwise. In demolishing any
building or part thereof, the material to be removed shall be properly
wet in order to lay dust incident to its removal.
No one, being the owner or in charge or control of any vehicle
or of any receptacle, shall litter, drop or spill or permit to be
littered, dropped or spilled any dirt, sand, gravel, clay, loam, stone
or building rubbish, sawdust, shavings or other light materials of
any sort, or manufacturing, trade or household waste, refuse, rubbish
of any sort, or manure, garbage or other organic refuse or other offensive
matter, in or upon any street or public place.
No person shall throw, cast or distribute, or cause or permit
to be thrown, cast or distributed, any handbill, circular, card, booklet,
placard or other advertising matter whatsoever in or upon any street
or public place, in a front yard or courtyard, on any stoop, in the
vestibule of any hall in any building or in a letter box therein,
provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit
or otherwise regulate the delivery of any such matter by the United
States Postal Service, or prohibit the distribution of sample copies
of newspapers regularly sold by the copy or by annual subscription.
This section is not intended to prevent the lawful distribution of
anything other than commercial and business advertising matter.
No noxious liquid or other filthy matter of any kind shall be
allowed by any person to fall upon or run into any street or public
place or be taken to or put therein.
No person shall prevent or interfere with any employee of the
Department of Sanitation in the sweeping or cleaning of any street
or in the removal of sweepings, garbage, rubbish, snow, ice or other
refuse material.
No person, other than an authorized employee or agent of the
Department of Sanitation, shall disturb or remove any garbage or light
refuse or rubbish placed by householders or their tenants, or by occupants
or their servants within the stoop or area line, or in front of houses
or lots, for removal, unless requested by residents of such houses.
A.
Purpose. The City provides numerous litter and recycling receptacles
throughout the City in an effort to maintain clean streets and sidewalks
throughout the City and not to be used for household or commercial
garbage.
B.
Notice. Notice to the public giving the restricted use of the receptacles
and the possible fine to be imposed for misuse shall be posted securely
upon each and every receptacle provided by the City for litter.
