Source: https://ecode360.com/12548688
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 10:21:50+00:00

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§ 113-1 Word usage; definitions.
§ 113-2 Litter in public places.
§ 113-3 Placement of litter in receptacles.
§ 113-4 Sweeping litter into gutters.
§ 113-5 Duty of merchants.
§ 113-6 Litter thrown from vehicles.
§ 113-7 Trucks causing litter.
§ 113-8 Litter in parks.
§ 113-9 Litter in ponds and fountains.
§ 113-10 Distribution of handbills.
§ 113-11 Litter from aircraft.
§ 113-13 Litter on occupied private property.
§ 113-14 Duty of property owner.
§ 113-15 Litter on vacant lots.
§ 113-16 Clearing litter from open private property.
§ 113-17 Violations and penalties.
Junkyards and junk dealers — See Ch. 107.
Parks and recreation — See Ch. 122.
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense 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.
A litter storage and collection receptacle.
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.
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the United States Post Office in accordance with federal statute or regulation and any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law and, in addition thereto, any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four (4) issues per year and sold to the public.
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 or copies of any matter of literature not included in the aforesaid definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper.
A park, reservation, playground, boardwalk, beach, recreation center or any other public area in the township owned or used by the township and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any dwelling house, building or other structure designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and includes any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house or building or other structure.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, beach, boardwalk, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon any private property within the township without complying with the State Sanitary Code for landfills, except in public receptacles, in authorized private receptacles for collection or in official township dumps.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the township 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 sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the township the accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying places of business within the township shall keep the sidewalk in front of their business premises free of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the township or upon private property.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the township unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street, alley or other public place, nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle or truck within the township, the wheels or tires of which carry into or deposit in any street, alley or other public place mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of any kind.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the township except in public receptacles and in such a manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any part of the park or upon any street or other public place. Where public receptacles are not provided, all such litter shall be carried away from the park by the person responsible for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided herein.
No person shall throw or deposit litter into any fountain, pond, lake, stream or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the township.
Throwing or distributing handbills in public places. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the township, nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill in any public place; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful on any sidewalk, street or other public place within the township for any person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, any such handbill to any person willing to accept it.
Placing handbills on vehicles. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any vehicle; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
Depositing handbills on uninhabited or vacant premises. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which are temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant.
Distribution of handbills prohibited at posted premises. No person shall throw or deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill upon any private premises if requested by anyone thereon not to do so or if there is placed on said premises in conspicuous position near the entrance thereof a sign bearing the words: "No trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement" or any similar notice indicating in any manner that the occupants of said premises do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
Distributing handbills at inhabited private premises.
Exemption for mail and newspapers. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States nor to newspapers (as defined herein), except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the township any litter, handbill or any other object.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper or device calculated to attract the attention of the public to any lamppost, public utility pole or shade tree or upon any public structure or building, except as may be authorized or required by law.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied private property within the township, whether owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person in control of private property may maintain authorized private receptacles for collection in such a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon any private property.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private property within the township, whether owned by such person or not.
Notice to remove. The Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to notify the owner of any open or vacant private property within the township or the agent of such owner to properly dispose of litter located on such owner's property which is dangerous to public health, safety or welfare. Such notice shall be by certified mail, addressed to said owner at his last known address.
Action upon noncompliance. Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any owner or agent so notified to properly dispose of litter dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice provided for in Subsection A above or within fifteen (15) days after the date of such notice in the event the same is returned to the post office because of its inability to make delivery thereof, provided that the same was properly addressed to the last known address of such owner or agent, the Board of Health is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the disposing of such litter or to order its disposal by the township.
Charge included in tax bill. When the township has effected the removal of such dangerous litter or has paid for its removal, the actual costs thereof, plus accrued interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from the date of the completion of the work, if not paid by such owner prior thereto, shall be charged to the owner of such property on the next regular tax bill forwarded to such owner by the township. Said charge shall be due and payable by said owner at the time of payment of such bill and shall be collected in the same manner as fixed by law for the collection of taxes.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction in the Municipal Court of the Township of Harmony, be punishable for each offense by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.) or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days in the county jail or by a period of community service not exceeding ninety (90) days. The Court shall have the power, upon conviction, to impose one (1) or more of the foregoing penalties.

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