(A) Authority of county agents to regulate use.
(1) The greenbox sites, recycling drop-off sites and collection centers located throughout the county are operated and maintained by the Solid Waste Department and financed by revenues generated by the ad valorem property tax, LCID landfill tipping fees, household fee and other miscellaneous taxes. The purpose of these allocated moneys is to provide solid waste and recycling management services to citizens in the unincorporated areas of the county. Therefore, it shall be unlawful for any person, to use county greenbox sites or collection centers unless the person is disposing of solid waste generated on property located within the county.
(2) Since the purpose of the greenbox sites and collection centers is to provide solid waste services to the residents of the unincorporated areas of the county, no industry, business, institution or other nonresidential user shall deposit solid waste or recyclables at any of the locations without express permission from the Public Works Director or his or her duly authorized representative. Nonresidential generators of solid waste are required to take garbage directly to the transfer station or dispose of it in some other legal fashion.
(3) Due to the fact that the operation of the county LCID landfill is regulated by the State Department of Human Resources, Division of Health Services, Sanitary Engineering Section, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the LCID Landfill Supervisor shall have the authority to determine what types of waste can be deposited in the LCID landfill in accordance with the most current state and federal rules and regulation governing the disposal.
(B) Materials not acceptable.
(1) Due to the difficulty or public health hazard of managing commingled solid waste and in order to comply with state and federal laws, certain materials in addition to nonresidential waste cannot be placed in county solid waste containers. The material includes:
(a) Fire embers;
(b) Oil and other liquids;
(c) Poisons;
(d) Infectious waste;
(e) Stumps and/or logs;
(f) Lead acid batteries;
(g) Brush;
(h) Land clearing waste;
(i) Yard waste;
(j) Appliances or furniture;
(k) Pesticides;
(l) Chemicals;
(m) Animals;
(n) Concrete;
(o) Tires;
(p) Construction material;
(q) Bulky waste; and
(r) Radioactive waste.
(2) In addition, it shall be illegal to deposit any material in a recycling container that is not specifically marked to accept the material.
(C) Fire prevention. It shall be unlawful for any person to set or cause to be set any fire in a solid waste container. No person shall place in a container embers, ashes or other material which would create a fire hazard.
(D) Scavenging. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or to remove any item from a solid waste or recycling container unless they have express written permission from the Public Works Director or a duly authorized representative. No person shall climb on, around or inside a solid waste or recycling container. No person shall cause any damage to be inflicted upon a solid waste or recycling container. This division (D) shall not apply to any person acting in the capacity of solid waste or recycling collector as authorized by the Public Works Director. Nor shall this division (D) apply to persons removing items from the collection center swap shop during operational hours. Nothing in this division (D) shall make it illegal for a scrap dealer or recycler to buy recyclables from a scavenger.
(E) Loitering. No person or persons shall loiter and/or congregate on any greenbox site, recycling drop-off site, or collection center property and no vehicle shall be left unattended on the property. Any vehicle left unattended shall be towed away and placed in storage at the owner's expense.
(F) Littering and illegal dumping.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to sweep, throw, deposit or dump, or to permit, allow, maintain or contribute to the sweeping, throwing, depositing or dumping any litter, solid waste or recyclables into, upon or along a drain, gutter, street, sidewalk, alley, vacant or occupied lot, walk, parking lot, embankment, within or near any public or private lake, pond, creek, river, stream, ditch, swamp, marsh, whether or not navigable, or upon any public or private premises within the county provided, however, that nothing in this division shall prevent the managing of litter, recyclable or solid waste according to § 50.07 below.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any owner, occupant, tenant or lessee of any building, structure or land jointly or severally to permit the deposit or accumulation of litter or other illegally dumped materials.
(3) Property owners and prime contractors in charge of a construction site are jointly and severally required to take appropriate measures to ensure the control of litter generated by construction and related activities.
(4) It shall be unlawful to leave solid waste, litter or improperly sorted recyclables at any county drop-off recycling center.
(5) It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, throw or deposit any solid waste, recyclables or litter at any former greenbox site from which all solid waste containers have been removed.
(6) It shall be unlawful to leave solid waste, recyclables or any material at a collection center or LCID landfill unless there is a county employee or duly authorized representative present who consents and/or supervises the leaving of the material at the site.
(Ord. passed 12-6-1993) Penalty, see § 50.99