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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 14:39:53+00:00

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§ 121-2 Requirement for permit; duration of permit; applicability.
§ 121-5 Renewal application requirements.
§ 121-6 Placement of bins.
§ 121-7 Display of permit.
§ 121-8 Receipt and investigation of complaints; seizure or removal of bin.
§ 121-10 Site plan approval required.
Site plans — See Ch. 225.
Editor's Note: The provisions of this ordinance were originally adopted as Ch. 129 but were renumbered in order to maintain the alphabetical sequence of the Code.
For the purposes of this chapter only, the term "solicitation" or "solicit" shall mean the request, directly or indirectly, for money, credit, property, financial assistance, or other thing of any kind or value. Solicitation shall include, but not be limited to, the use or employment of canisters, cards, receptacles or similar devices for the collection of money or other thing of value. A solicitation shall take place whether or not the person making the solicitation receives any contribution.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no person shall place, use, or employ a charitable clothing bin within the Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills for solicitation purposes, without obtaining a permit from the Zoning Officer. Permits shall be valid for one year, except for initial permits issued after January 1, and may be annually renewed thereafter. All permits shall expire on December 31 of each year. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all charitable clothing bins in place as of the effective date of this chapter, and to all charitable clothing bins placed subsequent to the effective date of this chapter.
The annual permit fee shall be $25 per bin and will be used to offset the costs involved in enforcing this chapter. The fee will not be prorated for initial permits issued after January 1.
Written consent from the property owner to place the bin on his/her property.
If the location of the bin is to be moved, the new location where the bin is to be situated, as precisely as possible, and written consent from the property owner of the new location, consenting to placement of the bin on his/her property.
The Township shall not grant an application for a permit to place, use, or employ a charitable clothing bin if it determines that the placement of the bin could constitute a safety hazard. Such hazards shall include, but not be limited to, the placement of a charitable clothing bin within 100 yards of any place which stores large amounts of, or sells, fuel or other flammable liquids or gases; or the placement of a bin where it interferes with vehicular or pedestrian circulation. The person placing, using or employing a charitable clothing bin shall maintain the bin and the area surrounding the bin such that there shall be no accumulation of clothing or other donations outside the bin.
A statement, consistent with the information provided to the Township in the most recent permit or renewal application, indicating the manner in which the owner anticipates any clothing or other donations collected via the bin will be used, sold, or disbursed, and the method by which the proceeds of collected donations will be allocated or spent.
The Zoning Officer or the Zoning Officer's designee shall receive and investigate, within 30 days, any complaints from the public about the bin. Whenever it appears to the Zoning Officer or the Zoning Officer's designee that a person has engaged in, or is engaging in any act or practice in violation of this chapter, the person/entity who placed the bin shall be issued a violation notice, stating that if the violation is not rectified or a hearing with the Township Council is not requested within 45 days, the bin will be seized or removed at the expense of the person/entity who placed the bin, and any clothing or other donations collected via the bin will be sold at public auction or otherwise disposed of. In addition to any other means used to notify the person/entity who placed the bin, such violation notice shall be affixed to the exterior of the bin itself.
In the event that the person who placed the bin does not rectify the violation or request a hearing within 45 days of the posting of the violation notice, the Township may seize the bin, remove it, or have it removed, at the expense of the person/entity who placed the bin, and sell at public auction or otherwise dispose of any clothing or other donations collected via the bin. Any proceeds from the sale of the donations collected via the bin shall be transmitted to the chief financial officer of the Township.
Demonstrates that he/she/it made a good faith effort to comply with the provisions of this chapter and P.L.2007, c.209 (N.J.S.A. § 40:48-2.60 et seq.), and all other applicable laws and regulations, or had no fraudulent intentions.
Subject to the general penalty provisions contained in § 1-17 of the Township Code.
In addition to the requirements of this chapter, no charitable clothing bin shall be placed on commercial property without prior application to the Township Planning Board and the grant by the Planning Board of site plan approval.

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