Source: https://ecode360.com/15121926
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 00:35:10+00:00

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§ 250-2 Placement in receptacles required.
§ 250-3 Sweeping litter into gutters prohibited.
§ 250-4 Litter thrown from vehicles and aircraft.
§ 250-5 Litter caused by trucks and vehicles.
§ 250-6 Responsibilities of owners and tenants.
§ 250-7 Transportation from outside of Borough.
§ 250-9 Open or overflow waste disposal bins.
§ 250-11 Distribution of handbills.
§ 250-15 Prohibited acts and regulated activities.
Brush, grass and weeds — See Ch. 380.
Sanitation — See Ch. 396.
A litter storage or collection receptacle approved by the Borough.
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which has been discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber, paper or other natural or synthetic material, or any combination thereof, including, but not limited to, any bottle, jar or can, or any top, cap or detachable tab of any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming or glowing material, or any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers or other packaging or construction material.
A park, playground, recreation center or any other public area owned or used by the Borough or local authorized governmental agencies and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any dwelling, house, building or structure designated or used, either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps or vestibule belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling house, building or other structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, beaches or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, docks, grounds and buildings.
No person shall sweep, throw or deposit litter in or upon any occupied, open or vacant property, whether owned by such person or not, or in any park or public place or into any fountain, stream, river, skating rink or other body of water in a park or elsewhere in the Borough, except in public receptacles, in authorized private receptacles for collection or in official Borough dumps. Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles shall do so in such manner as to prevent it from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any public place or private property.
The owner, tenant, occupant or other person of a property zoned for retail, commercial or similar uses, including all such uses which are prior nonconforming uses or exist pursuant to a variance approval, including, but not limited to, all restaurants, bars, shopping centers, establishments which sell food, establishments which sell liquor, or similar uses shall be required to provide ash receptacles or receptacles specifically designed for the disposal of cigarette butts, cigar butts or cigarette or cigar ashes outside of its premises.
No person, including merchants owning or occupying a place of business, shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter or public place within the Borough the accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalks in front of their premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter in a public place within the Borough or upon public property. No person in any aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the Borough any litter.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the Borough unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent its load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited in any public place, nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle or truck within the Borough the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any public place mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of any kind.
The owner, agent, lessee, tenant, occupant or other person who manages or controls a building or lot shall be jointly or severally responsible for keeping the sidewalk, flagging and curbstone and the airshafts, area ways, backyards, courts, parking lots and alleys free from litter.
No person shall bring, cart, remove, transport or collect any litter from outside the Borough into the Borough for the purpose of dumping or disposing thereof unless authorized by the Borough. No vehicle containing litter which has been transported into the Borough shall be parked or allowed to remain standing on any street in the Borough or any public property for a period in excess of two hours.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discard or dump along any street or road, on or off any right-of-way, any solid waste, including but not limited to vehicle or vehicle parts, rubber tires, appliances, furniture, construction waste or demolition waste, and any household or commercial solid waste.
It shall be unlawful for any person to discard or dump on any property, public or private, or in any body of water any solid waste, including but not limited to vehicle or vehicle parts, rubber tires, appliances, furniture, construction waste or demolition waste, or any manner of solid waste, without the express written consent of the property owner, and then only in a litter receptacle or waste container designed for the express purpose of solid waste storage or disposal.
Open dumps are declared to be a nuisance, hazardous to human health and are prohibited. Leaf-composting facilities operating in compliance with all applicable regulations and possessing all applicable permits or those operated by property owners or operators solely for the purpose of composting vegetative wastes produced on site shall not be regulated by this article.
The land application of clean fill, provided that it is wholly uncontaminated by the presence of other solid waste and further provided that it is applied by the property owner or with the express written consent of the property owner, shall not be regulated by this article.
It shall be unlawful for any residential or commercial property owner to permit open or overflowing waste disposal bins, containers or litter receptacles on his or her property.
It shall be unlawful for any residential or commercial property owner to permit the presence of waste disposal bins, containers or litter receptacles in a manner which promotes or tends to promote the presence of any disease vector.
It shall be unlawful for any owner, agent or contractor in charge of a construction or demolition site to permit the accumulation of litter before, during or after completion of any construction or demolition project. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or contractor in charge of a construction site to furnish containers adequate to accommodate flyable or nonflyable solid waste at areas convenient to construction areas and to maintain and empty the receptacles in such a manner and with such a frequency as to prevent spillage of solid waste. The Construction Official or his/her designee shall also have the authority to enforce this article.
It is unlawful for any person to place, to cause to be placed, or to hire another person to place any advertisement, handbill or unsolicited material of any kind in or on any street, sidewalk, building or vehicle within the community in such a manner that it may be removed by natural forces.
An ordinance to establish requirements to control littering in the Borough of Wallington, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for the failure to comply.
Any used or unconsumed substance or waste material which has been discarded, whether made of aluminum, glass, plastic, rubber, paper or other natural or synthetic material, or any combination thereof, including, but not limited to, any bottle, jar or can, or any top, cap or detachable tab of any bottle, jar or can, any unlighted cigarette, cigar, match or any flaming or glowing material, or any garbage, trash, refuse, debris, rubbish, grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspapers, magazines, glass, metal, plastic or paper containers or other packaging or construction material, but does not include the waste of the primary processes of mining or other extraction processes, logging, sawmilling, farming or manufacturing.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, drop, discard or otherwise place any litter of any nature upon public or private property other than in a litter receptacle or, having done so, to allow such litter to remain.
Whenever any litter is thrown or discarded or allowed to fall from a vehicle or boat in violation of this article, the operator or owner, or both, of the motor vehicle or boat shall also be deemed to have violated this article.
This article shall be enforced by the Building Inspector or his designee of the Borough of Wallington.
Any person who violates the provisions of this article shall be punishable as provided in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty, of the Code of the Borough of Wallington.

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