[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of
the Village of Belgium 11-21-1991 by Ord. No. 16-91 as Sec. 8-1-2
and Title 8, Ch. 2 of the 1991 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall take or permit to remain any
dog, cat or other live animal on or upon any premises where food is
sold, offered for sale or processed for consumption by the general
public.
A.
Cleanup required. All persons, firms, or corporations
delivering, hauling, disposing, storing, discharging or otherwise
handling potentially polluting substances, solid or liquid, such as,
but not limited to, the following, shall immediately clean up any
such spilled material to prevent its becoming a hazard to health or
safety or directly or indirectly causing pollution to the lakes and
streams under the jurisdiction of the Village: fuel oil, gasoline,
solvents, industrial liquids or fluids, milk, grease trap and septic
tank wastes, sewage sludge, sanitary sewer wastes, storm sewer catch
basin wastes, oil or petroleum wastes.
B.
Notification. Spills or accidental release of hazardous
materials or pollutants at a site or of a quantity or nature that
cannot adequately be cleaned up by the responsible party or parties
shall be immediately reported to the Village Clerk so that assistance
can be given by the proper agency.
[Amended 3-8-2010 by Ord. No. 2-10]
C.
Financial liability. The party or parties responsible
for the release, escape or discharge of wastes shall be held financially
liable for the cost of any cleanup or attempted cleanup deemed necessary
or desirable and undertaken by the Village, or its designated agent,
in an effort to minimize the pollutional effects of the discharged
waste.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to store any potentially polluting substances unless such
substances are stored in such manner as to securely prevent them from
escaping onto the ground surface and/or into any street, sewer, ditch
or drainageway, lake or stream within the jurisdiction of the Village.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 8-2-3, Hazardous
waste, which immediately followed this section, was deleted 1-12-2004
by Ord. No. 3-04.
