[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Monroe 1-5-1971 (Ch. 24A of the 1968 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Village of Monroe Anti-Litter Ordinance."
It is hereby declared and found that litter
carelessly deposited in the Village of Monroe is the cause of civic
disgrace; that litter is a health, fire and safety hazard; that an
all-out litter-control campaign can result in substantial savings
to taxpayers of the Village of Monroe; that litter is a matter affecting
the public interest and consequently should be subject to supervision
and administrative control for the purpose of safeguarding the public
health, safety and general welfare of the people of the Village of
Monroe.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following
terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings
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 number; and words used in the singular number
include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and
not merely directory.
Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or
designated for navigation or for flight in the air and shall include
helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles and balloons.
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or
otherwise reproduced original or copy of any matter of literature
which:
Advertises for sale any merchandise, product,
commodity or thing;
Directs attention to any business or mercantile
or commercial establishment or other activity, for the purpose of
either directly or indirectly promoting the interest thereof by sales;
Directs attention to or advertises any meeting,
theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind for which
an admission fee is charged for the purpose of private gain or profit;
or
While containing reading matter other than advertising matter,
is predominantly and essentially an advertisement and is distributed
or circulated for advertising purposes or for the private benefit
and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
Any store or building or group thereof, including shopping
centers, shopping plazas and other similar places, wherein mercantile
activities and services are offered to the public and shall include
all parking areas thereat.
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
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 creates
unsightliness.
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by law: any
newspaper duly entered with the United States Postal Service in accordance
with federal statute or regulation, and any newspaper filed and recorded
with any recording officer, as provided by law. In addition thereto,
includes any periodical or current magazine regularly published with
not less than four issues per year and sold to the public.
[Amended 7-6-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999]
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or
any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or original or
copies of any matter of literature not included in the aforesaid definitions
of a "commercial handbill" or "newspaper."
A park, reservation, playground, beach recreation center
or any other public area in the Village owned or used by the Village
and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any house, building or other structure designed or used either
wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited
or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include
any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox
belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other
structure.
Any and all street, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body
wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass,
bedding, crockery and similar materials.
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 upon stationary rails or tracks.
The incorporated areas in the Village of Monroe.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or
upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within the Village
except in public receptacles, in private receptacles for collection
or in official town dumps or rubbish pits.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles
or in 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.
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 litter from any public sidewalk or
driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk
in front of their premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a
vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter upon any street or public place
within the Village upon private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other
vehicle within the Village, unless such vehicle is so constructed
or located as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown
or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place. Nor shall
any person 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 mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign
matter of any kind.
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 or upon any street or other
public 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.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any
fountain, pond, lake, stream, bay or any other body of water in a
park or elsewhere within the Village.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other
public place within the Village.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon any vehicle; provided, however,
that it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to
hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, a
noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing
to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon any private premises which are
temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant.
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No person shall thrown, deposit or distribute any
commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which
are inhabited, except by handing or transmitting any such handbill
directly to the owner, occupant or other person then present in or
upon such private premises.
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Exemption for mail and newspapers. 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.
No person in an aircraft shall expel therefrom,
drop or deposit within the Village any litter, handbill or any other
object.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any
occupied private property or commercial place within the Village,
whether owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person
in control of such private property or commercial place 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 any private
property.
Each owner or person in control of any commercial
place, including shopping centers and delivery and parking areas thereat,
shall keep said places, parking fields, parking areas, delivery areas
and other open areas which are a part of such commercial place free
from litter.
The owner or person in control of any private
property shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter;
provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the storage
of litter in authorized private receptacles for collection.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any
open or vacant private property within the Village, whether owned
by such person or not.
The Village Clerk is hereby authorized and empowered
to notify the owner of any open or vacant private property or commercial
place within the Village, or the agent of such owner, to properly
dispose of litter located on such owner's property which is a nuisance
or dangerous to public health, safety or welfare. Such notice shall
be by certified mail, addressed to said owner at his last known address.
[Added 11-12-1981 by L.L. No. 8-1981; amended 6-21-2011 by L.L. No. 2-2011]
The Department of Public Works Superintendent,
as designated by the Village Board of Trustees, shall be authorized
to issue and serve appearance tickets with respect to any violation
under this chapter of the Code of the Village of Monroe and any and
all state laws of the State of New York, pursuant to which his powers
and duties are governed. Said Department of Public Works Superintendent
may issue and serve such appearance ticket or tickets upon such person
or persons who have committed an offense and violation of law as hereinafter
set forth.
[Amended 7-11-1989 by L.L. No. 3-1989; 7-6-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999]
The violation of any provision of this chapter shall be an offense against this chapter, which shall be punishable by a fine as set forth in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty, § 1-14. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.
