[Amended 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 28-2019]
A. Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense in this chapter 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.
B. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AERIAL LUMINARY LANTERN – Any device designed to be airborne upon release into the environmental regardless of fuel source including sky lanterns.
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE – A litter storage and collection receptacle.
BALLOON – A bag made of thin rubber or other like material inflated with air or with a lighter-than-air gas.
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL – Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature which:
(1) Advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity or thing.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) While containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement and is distributed or circulated for advertising purpose or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
GARBAGE – Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER – 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.
NEWSPAPER – Any newspaper of general circulation, as defined by general 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 general law. In addition thereto, "newspaper" shall mean and include any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the public. The term "newspaper" shall not include publications delivered free of charge, not at the request of the property owner, which consist primarily of advertising material. Such publications are, for the purpose of this article, to be considered commercial handbills.
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL – 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 copies of any matter of literature not included in the aforesaid definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper.
PARK – A park, reservation, playground, recreation center or any other public area in the town, owned or used by the town and devoted to active or passive recreation.
PERSON – Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PRINCIPAL ADVERTISER – In a commercial handbill, the person, firm or corporation whose advertising message occupies a substantial amount of the advertising space in the handbill, such that it appears to be the sponsor of the handbill.
PRIVATE PREMISES – Any dwelling house, building or other structure designed or used, either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes, whether uninhabited or temporarily or continuously inhabited or vacant, including but not limited to any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE – Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways, paved or unpaved, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
REFUSE – 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.
RUBBISH – Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and similar materials.
SKY LANTERNS – Airborne paper lanterns that are constructed of oiled rice paper on a bamboo frame, and contain a small candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy flammable material.
TOWN – The Town of Hammonton.
VEHICLE – 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.