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Timestamp: 2020-07-02 19:52:58
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 252', '§ 6018', '§ 252', '§ 252']

Township of Marple, PA Solid Waste Management
Ch 252 Art II Solid Waste Management
§ 252-25 Definitions.
§ 252-26 Prohibited acts.
§ 252-27 Operation of plants; charges.
§ 252-28 Collectors to be licensed.
§ 252-29 Disposal of collected waste.
§ 252-30 Use of private property.
§ 252-31 Violations and penalties.
§ 252-32 Abatement of nuisance.
§ 252-33 Collection and disposal subject to regulations.
§ 252-34 Amendments; contract.
§ 252-35 Joint cooperation agreement.
§ 252-36 Adoption of plan.
[Adopted 8-10-1987 by Ord. No. 87-13 (Ch. 50, Art. V, of the 1971 Code)[1]]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former Art. V, Solid Waste Management, adopted 1-13-1986 by Ord. No. 86-1.
Any person collecting or transporting municipal solid waste for owners or occupants of property in the municipality, including the municipality itself, if it undertakes the collection of municipal solid waste directly, and any business or institution within the municipality which generates municipal solid waste and uses its own employees and equipment for the collection and transport of the waste.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste and other material, including solid or semisolid material generated in residential, municipal, commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities, and other solid waste which is within the definition of "municipal solid waste" as set forth in the Act[1] and which the county, authority or contractor, by its ordinance or regulations, is willing to accept at the plant, but excluding:
Any liquid waste or sludge.
All wastes which are defined by existing or future federal or state laws or regulations as hazardous waste or industrial residual waste.
Any waste which may be marketable and which is intentionally segregated for purposes of recycling.
The energy and/or material recovery facility or facilities, transfer stations or solid waste plants owned by the county or authority or the contractor, including all associated property and equipment.
Editor's Note: The "Act" refers to the Solid Waste Management Act. See 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq.
All collectors shall deliver and dispose of all municipal solid waste collected within the municipality at the solid waste facility designated by the county, subject to such reasonable regulations for the operation thereof as may be established by the county and/or contractor. Delivery and disposal at any other place shall be a violation of this article and cause for revocation of the collector's license, except in special circumstances approved in advance by the municipality and the county and/or the contractor. All collectors shall comply in their operation with all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations pertaining to the collection and transportation of municipal solid waste.
Any person violating any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and in default of payment of such fine and costs by imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Each day's continuance of a violation of this article, as well as each truckload of illegally delivered trash, shall constitute a separate offense.
In addition to the remedies provided in § 252-31 herein, any continued violation of this article or other applicable law which shall constitute a nuisance in fact or which in the opinion of the governing body of this municipality shall constitute a nuisance may be abated by proceeding against the violator in a court of equity for relief.
The collection of municipal solid waste in the municipality and the disposal thereof shall be subject to such further reasonable rules and regulations as may from time to time be promulgated by the governing body of the municipality, including, but without limitation, regulations as to the form of the license application, the amount of the fee to be charged for said licenses and the terms of the licenses and license issuance procedures; provided, however, that no such rules and regulations shall be contrary to the provisions of this article, the county solid waste plan or applicable law.
The municipality reserves the right to amend this article or repeal it at any time; provided, however, that the requirement for use of the designated solid waste facility for disposal of municipal solid waste from the municipality shall not be amended or repealed without the prior express written approval of the county during the term of the contract between the county (or Authority) and contractor providing for the construction and operation of the plant, which contract shall have a term of 25 years. For the purposes of securing the contractor's financing, such requirement shall be deemed to be a contract between the county, the contractor and the municipality, which the municipality, subject to the terms of the joint cooperation agreement set forth below, agrees to enforce so that the municipal solid waste from the municipality will be available to provide a source of energy for the plant. If the municipality is not now a collector but in the future it becomes a collector, it agrees to deliver all municipal solid waste so collected to the plant.
The county agrees to accept for disposal all such municipal solid waste described in Subsection A above upon completion and commencement of operation of the plant in accordance with a contract containing terms satisfactory to the county, with the contractor providing for construction and operation of the plant.
The term of this agreement shall be for a period of 25 years, and said term shall commence on January 1, 2017. The municipality, at its option, may terminate this agreement with 30 days' written notice to the county in the event that the municipality will incur substantial costs over and above the costs generally accepted by the other municipalities in delivering municipal solid waste to the county during the term of this agreement, provided that the municipality has first obtained final approval from the Department of Environmental Protection for its own plan under the Act[1] or an approval from the Department for a modification that brings the municipality under another plan that has already obtained final approval. It is understood, however, that, upon any such termination of this agreement by the municipality, the county, the authority and/or the county's contractor shall be relieved of any responsibility to accept and dispose of municipal solid waste generated within the municipality. It is further understood that any such termination of this agreement by the municipality shall constitute a repeal, whether express or implied, of § 252-36 of this article.
[Amended 2-8-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-1]
The Department of Environmental Protection has recommended that the requirements of the Solid Waste Management Act[1] can best be accomplished on a county-wide basis.
The municipality, by formal resolution dated April 11, 1984, authorized the county to prepare the solid waste management plan on the municipality's behalf.
The municipality, accordingly, hereby accepts and adopts the solid waste management study prepared by the county as the ten-year plan for solid waste management required by the Act.[2]
The county is hereby authorized to submit the plan to the Department of Environmental Protection for final approval on behalf of the municipality.