[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Pawling 5-1-1973
as Ch. 33 of the 1973 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Transfer station; recycling — See Ch. 191.
For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used herein are defined as
follows:
Any receptacle intended to collect items or articles of clothing,
shoes and/or other wearing apparel.
[Added 2-8-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
Includes waste food, papers, dead animals or parts thereof and all
waste or discarded wood, lumber or vegetable matter of any kind or any other
matter which shall be flammable or capable of fermentation or decay.
Includes an individual, society, club, firm, partnership, corporation
or association of persons, and the singular number shall include the plural
number.
A person, whether a resident of the Town of Pawling or not, engaged
in the collecting of the garbage or rubbish, or both, of other persons, for
compensation.
[Added 1-25-1977 by L.L. No. 1-1977]
Any receptacle intended to collect items or articles intended for
recycling, such as newsprint, cardboard, grease, or other similar items.
[Added 2-8-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
Includes waste metal, tin cans, ashes, cinders, glass, pottery and
all discarded substances of a solid and incombustible nature.
Any receptacle intended to collect items or articles, such as putrescent
garbage, trash, construction debris, or other similar items.
[Added 2-8-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
[Amended 1-25-1977 by L.L. No. 1-1977; 7-14-1987
by L.L. No. 2-1987; 7-14-1987 by L.L.
No. 3-1987; 8-9-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994; 2-8-2005
by L.L. No. 1-2005]
A.Â
No person shall transport or bring into or cause to be
transported or brought into or throw, dump or deposit or cause to be thrown,
dumped or deposited in any part of the Town of Pawling any garbage, rubbish
or abandoned vehicles or parts thereof from any source whatever originating
outside of the Town of Pawling, and no person shall permit such throwing,
dumping or depositing thereof upon property owned, leased or controlled by
such person.
B.Â
No person within the Town of Pawling shall throw, dump
or deposit or cause to be thrown, dumped or deposited on any street, sidewalk,
other public place or private property, except where specifically designated
or approved by the Town Board, any garbage, rubbish or abandoned vehicles
or parts thereof from any source whatever, whether from within or outside
the Town, and no person shall permit such throwing, dumping or depositing
thereof upon property owned, leased or controlled by such person, except as
may be approved by the Town Board as aforesaid.
C.Â
Clothing containers may be permitted on private property
or at locations approved by the Town Board. It is the responsibility of the
owners of said containers and the owners of said property to maintain them,
to see that said containers are emptied on a regular basis (so that clothing
deposits are not left outside the container), and to prohibit the depositing
of any and all items other than clothing of whatever kind and nature, including
but not limited to garbage, trash, construction debris, or other similar items,
at or in the container.
[Amended 2-8-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall be guilty of a violation punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding
15 days or by a fine not exceeding $350, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter shall
constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct
offense hereunder.
