[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Barnstable as indicated in article
histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 2-21-1991 by Order No. 91-63 (Art. LII of Ch. III of the
General Ordinances as updated through 7-7-2003)]
No person shall, for compensation, collect or transport garbage or refuse
generated within the Town of Barnstable, whether from residential, commercial
or industrial sources, without a waste collection permit from the Barnstable
Board of Health. Such permits shall specify that the waste collected must
be disposed of at either the Barnstable Sanitary Landfill in Marstons Mills
or at the Town of Yarmouth Solid Waste Transfer Station, as may be determined
by the Barnstable Department of Public Works.
At the designated point of disposal, each delivery vehicle shall submit
a signed manifest on a form approved by the Board of Health, identifying the
point(s) of collection or collection routes (on file with the Barnstable Department
of Public Works), the date on which the waste was collected, the driver of
the vehicle, and the waste collection permittee. No loads of waste shall be
accepted at the Barnstable Sanitary Landfill or at the Yarmouth Solid Waste
Transfer Station without a properly completed manifest.
Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 202-1 and 202-2 above, the Board of Health may grant special permits for the collection of recyclable materials generated within the Town of Barnstable if it finds that there is a valid agreement between a generator of commercial or industrial recyclable waste and a waste disposal or recycling firm expressly providing for the recycling of the material so collected. Material collected under such special recycling permits may be transported to and disposed of at locations other than the Barnstable Sanitary Landfill and the Yarmouth Solid Waste Transfer Station. The same manifesting requirements shall apply to recycling permittees as to waste collection permittees, except that manifests for recycled materials delivered to a disposal site other than the Barnstable Sanitary Landfill or the Yarmouth Solid Waste Transfer Station shall, in addition, identify the delivery site and the date of delivery. Such manifests shall be submitted to the Barnstable Department of Public Works by the permittee within 15 days of delivery.
Permit holders must comply with all other applicable laws, ordinances
and regulations including in the case of deliveries to the Yarmouth Solid
Waste Transfer Station, the regulations of the Yarmouth Board of Health and
the Yarmouth Solid Waste Transfer Station Board of Control.
Violation of this article is punishable by loss of permit and/or a fine
of not more than $300 per violation.
[Adopted 9-20-2001 by Order No. 2002-007 (Art. XXI of Ch. II of the
General Ordinances as updated through 7-7-2003)]
The Board of Health shall, as a condition of every license granted to
haulers of rubbish and offal under MGL C. 111, § 31A, require that
the licensee provide a service at reasonable cost, optional to customers,
of recycling waste. The Board shall make rules and regulations to give effect
to this article under the authority hereof as well as under the provisions
of MGL C. 111, § 31B.
The Town Manager is directed to immediately work with the haulers, the
county and other towns to help provide a facility for the handling of recyclables
to be collected.
