Section
51.01 Findings and prohibitions
51.02 Definitions
51.03 Collection and disposal a municipal function
51.04 Accumulation of solid waste and trash prohibited
51.05 Containers
51.06 Collection of garbage
51.07 Vehicles hauling garbage and trash; disposal at landfill
51.08 Responsibility for fees
51.99 Penalty
The Board of Trustees hereby declares that it is the policy of the town to regulate the collection, transportation, processing and disposal of solid waste in a manner that will protect the public health, safety and welfare. The Board of Trustees declares that it is a public nuisance and a hazard to the public health, safety and welfare to permit the operation of a disposal site or to permit the disposal of solid waste within the corporate limits of the town.
(Prior Code, § 8-4-0) (Ord. 2009-4, passed 8-10-2009)
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISPOSAL SITE. Any place, including, but not limited to, a transfer station, at which solid waste is dumped, abandoned or accepted or disposed of by incineration, landfilling, composting, shredding, compaction, baling or any other method or by processing by pyrolysis, resource recovery or any other method, technique or process designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of any solid waste so as to render such waste safe or non-hazardous, amenable to transport, recovery or storage or reduced in volume. A DISPOSAL SITE shall not include a manufacturing facility which processes scrap materials which have been separated for collection and processing as industrial raw materials.
GARBAGE. Every accumulation of animal or vegetable matter, or both, likely to decay or usually discarded as waste matter from kitchens, dining rooms, hotels, restaurants, boarding houses and dwelling houses of every kind, and shall include such waste animal or vegetable matter from public institutions, businesses, stores, markets and/or other establishments.
SOLID WASTE. All putrescible and non-putrescible refuse in solid, semisolid or liquid form including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes or incinerator residue, street refuse, dead animals, demolition wastes, construction wastes, solid or semisolid commercial and industrial wastes including explosives, biomedical wastes, chemical wastes, herbicide and pesticide wastes.
TRANSFER STATION. Any disposal site, processing facility or other place where solid waste is transferred from a vehicle or container to another vehicle or container for transportation, including, but not limited to, a barge or railroad unloading facility where solid waste, in bulk or in containers, is unloaded, stored, processed or transported for any purpose.
TRASH. Any accumulation of broken or discarded boxes, glass, metal vessels or containers; paper; straw; sawdust; ashes; iron or other metal; clothing; trimmings from trees, shrubs, grass or gardens; and such other similar waste matter usually discarded by business establishments or occupants of dwellings or living quarters.
(Prior Code, § 8-4-1) (Ord. 2009-4, passed 8-10-2009)
The town hereby reserves to itself the exclusive right and privilege of the collection, removal and disposition of all garbage and trash within the limits of the town, either by contracting with a suitable person for the collection and removal thereof or by the collection and removal thereof by employees of the town, either method to be at the discretion of the town’s Board of Trustees. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or business, except as duly authorized under the terms hereof, to collect or remove any “garbage” or “trash”, as defined herein, and to transport, haul or carry the same over the streets and alleys of the town.
(Prior Code, § 8-4-2) Penalty, see § 51.99
(A) No person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge of any private property or premises shall maintain or keep any refuse, rubbish, trash, solid waste or similar material, except dirt thereon; nor shall such person allow the accumulation of any such material; nor shall any such person keep or maintain such premises in a manner causing substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood in which the premises is located.
(B) No owner or occupant of land or lots shall knowingly permit the placing, depositing or dumping upon his or her premises of any solid waste.
(Prior Code, § 8-4-3) (Ord. 2009-4, passed 8-10-2009) Penalty, see § 51.99
(A) Use required. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or business to deposit upon the streets, alleys, parking or on private property any garbage or trash for collection unless the same is placed in a container as required by this chapter; except that, trimmings from trees and shrubs, if too bulky for such containers, may be cut in three-foot lengths, tied in bundles and placed at or near the trash container.
(B) Specifications; placement for pick up. It is hereby made the duty of every owner, occupant, tenant or lessee occupying a business establishment, dwelling house or apartment, and every person in charge of a hotel or living quarters in the town to provide and maintain suitable and separate containers for garbage and trash, said containers to be 20- to 30-gallon cans with lids, which said containers shall be placed at the curb in front of the house or building occupied on collection dates to be announced, and shall be readily accessible to garbage and trash collectors.
(C) Tampering with, damage to containers. It shall be unlawful for any person not duly authorized as provided herein to tamper with, overturn, remove or destroy any garbage or trash container of a residence, business or other establishment in the town.
(Prior Code, § 8-4-4) Penalty, see § 51.99
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