The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter,
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
The residue of the combustion of any type of solid fuel such
as wood, coal, charcoal, or any other combustible materials.
The Director of Health of the Town of New Canaan, or any
Health District of which New Canaan is a part, or his/her duly authorized
representative.
All waste, animal, fish, fowl, fruit, vegetable matter or
other waste, produced from or resulting from the use and storage of
food for human consumption and includes spoiled food and soiled paper.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, association,
firm, group, or entity of any kind.
Any person who collects and carries, for payment and by agreement
with the user, refuse for disposal.
All materials deemed by the State of Connecticut and the Town of New Canaan as recyclable materials to be separated from the garbage/refuse and brought to the Transfer Station to be properly recycled. See Code of the Town of New Canaan Chapter 49, Recycling.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solids (except body wastes),
including but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, dead animals,
excrement from pets or other animals.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible waste materials (except garbage), such as wood,
coal, cardboard, paper, plastic, wrappings, containers, rags, cartons,
boxes, tree branches, brush, yard trimmings, cans, metal, glass, crockery,
and building materials.
Every person owning or occupying premises located in the
Town, on which premises refuse is created or generated, and who intends
to deliver or transport such refuse to the Town Transfer Station for
disposal.
All persons delivering refuse for disposal at the Town Transfer
Station may do so only on such days and at such times as may be prescribed
by the Board of Selectmen.
It shall be the duty of the agent of the Board of Selectmen
in charge of the Town Transfer Station to dispose of all refuse and
recyclable materials properly delivered in accordance with the terms
hereof.
No person shall use the facilities of the Town Transfer Station for the disposal of refuse brought into the Town from elsewhere. Any person violating this section shall be subject to payment of a special fee prescribed by the Board of Selectmen and, in the discretion of the Board, to revocation of license as provided by § 25-15 and to the penalties provided in § 4-8 of the New Canaan Code.
The owner of any premises may dispose of garbage on such premises
by composting the same, provided such disposal does not create offensive
odors, invite the breeding or collection of flies, mosquitoes or rodents,
create a fire hazard or in any manner tend, in the opinion of the
Director of Health or First Selectman, to constitute a menace to public
health or create a nuisance. Disposal of rubbish or refuse on such
premises shall not be allowed unless permitted by the State of Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection and unless the foregoing provisions
are met.
No person shall dispose of any explosive or dangerously inflammable
materials, such as shotgun shells, cartridges, dynamite, empty ether
cans, cleaning fluids, gasoline and the like, at the Town Transfer
Station.
No person shall permit any land situated in the Town to be used
as a public garbage or refuse dump.
No person owning or occupying land in the Town shall place,
either on land owned or occupied by such person or on land of another,
or permit or allow to remain on land owned or occupied by such person,
in the open, that is, outside of buildings or covered cans or boxes
or other suitable receptacles, any paper, refuse or rubbish of any
kind whatever, which is likely to be carried by the wind into highways
or onto the land of others.
The Board of Selectmen and the Director of Health may from time
to time prescribe such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with
the provisions of this code relating to sanitation, as shall in their
judgment be necessary for the proper administration of this chapter.
