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Timestamp: 2017-05-28 20:18:00
Document Index: 495857232

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 172', '§ 172', '§ 172', '§ 172', '§ 172', '§ 172']

Deposits in public places; use of public receptacles. § 172-3
Placement in receptacles to prevent scattering.
Sweeping litter into streets; duty to keep sidewalks free from litter. § 172-5
Merchants' duty to keep sidewalks free from litter.
Throwing or distributing commercial handbills.
Placing handbills on vehicles.
Depositing handbills on uninhabited or vacant premises.
Distribution of handbills on posted property.
Distributing handbills and newspapers at inhabited private premises.
Posting notices and posters where prohibited.
Litter on occupied private property.
Owner to maintain premises free from litter.
Violations and penalties. Ch 173
the City of East Orange 3-25-1968 by Ord. No. 20-1968 as Ch. 10, Art. III, of the 1968
Violations and penalties. § 172-1
Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented which is
used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The word
"aircraft" shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigibles
A litter storage and collection receptacle as required and
authorized in this chapter and other City ordinance regulating garbage
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or
otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature:
A. Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product,
commodity or thing; or
B. Which 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; or
C. Which 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, but the terms of this clause shall not apply where an admission
fee is charged or a collection is taken up for the purpose of defraying
the expenses incident to such meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition
or event of any kind when either of the same is held, given or takes
place in connection with the dissemination of information which is
not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, public
peace, safety and good order, provided that nothing contained in this
clause shall be deemed to authorize the holding, giving or taking
place of any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event
of any kind without a license where such license is or may be required
by any law of this state or under this chapter or any other ordinance
of this City; or
D. Which, while containing reading matter other
than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement
and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the
private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or
Solid waste, garbage, refuse and rubbish as defined in this
section and all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited
as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to public health, safety
and welfare or tends to create blight.[Amended 11-14-1994 by Ord. No. 9-1994]
Any newspaper of general circulation, as defined by general
the United States in accordance with federal statute or regulation,
provided by general law. In addition thereto, the term "newspaper"
shall mean and include any periodical or current magazine regularly
published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the
Any printed or written matter, any sample, device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or
A park reservation, playground, beach, recreation center
or any other public area in the City which is owned or used by the
City and devoted to active or passive recreation.
including any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule
or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building
All streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, municipal parking
lots or other public ways and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
wastes), including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned vehicles and solid market and industrial wastes.
tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and
residential or commercial sources, excluding recyclable material.[Added 11-14-1994 by Ord. No. 9-1994]
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway or public street.
Deposits in public places; use of public receptacles. [Amended 2-22-1999 by Ord. No. 4-1999]
Sweeping litter into streets; duty to keep sidewalks free from litter. [Amended 2-22-1999 by Ord. No. 4-1999]
A. No person owning or occupying a place of business
place within the City the accumulation of litter from any building
or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway.
B. Persons owning or occupying places of business within the City shall keep the sidewalk in front of their business premises free of litter when they shall have actual notice thereof or when such litter shall have been present a sufficient length of time to constitute constructive notice. (See § 172-20 for violation and penalties hereof.)[Amended 2-22-1999 by Ord. No. 4-1999]
within the City or upon private property.
A. No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle
within the City 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.
B. No person shall drive or move any vehicle or truck
within the City, the wheels, treads or tires of which carry onto or
deposit in any street, alley or other public place any mud, dirt,
sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of any kind.
park within the City, except in public receptacles and in such a manner
that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited
for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided in
park or elsewhere within the City.
commercial handbill in any public place, provided that it shall not
be unlawful on any sidewalk, street or other public place within the
City for any person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the
receiver thereof, any noncommercial handbill to any person willing
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon any vehicle, provided that it
shall not be unlawful 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.
or noncommercial handbill in or upon any private premises which are
No person shall throw, 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 such premises, in a 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 such premises do not desire to be molested or
have their right of privacy disturbed or to have any such handbills
left upon such premises.
A. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited
premises, provided that in case of inhabited private premises which
are not posted as provided in this chapter, such person, unless requested
by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any
such handbill in or upon such inhabited private premises if such handbill
is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent such handbill from
being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets or
other public places; and except that mailboxes may not be so used
when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations.
B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to
the distribution of mail by the United States nor to newspapers, 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
or deposit within the City any litter, handbill or any other object.
public, to any lamppost, public utility pole, shade tree, bridge,
traffic sign, police-fire call box, cinder-salt box or upon any public
structure or building, except as may be authorized or required by
occupied private property within the City, whether owned by such person
A. The owner or person in control of any private property
shall at all times maintain the premises free of litter when such
person shall have actual notice thereof or when such litter shall
have been present a sufficient length of time to constitute constructive
B. This section shall not prohibit the storage of litter
open or vacant private property within the City, whether owned by
such person or not.
Violations and penalties. [Added 11-10-1980 by Ord. No. 15-1980; amended 11-14-1994 by Ord. No. 9-1994; 2-22-1999 by Ord. No. 4-1999]
A. Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, except as provided in § 172-20B, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a minimum fine of not less than $200 for the first offense and not more than $2,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, and/or 90 days of community service.[1]
B. Payment through Violations Bureau. If you wish to plead guilty of violating or refusing to comply with § 172-2, 172-4 or 172-5, respectively, and give up your rights to have a lawyer and a trial, you may pay a fine of $200 by bringing or mailing the summons together with payment within 14 days of notice of violation to the Violations Bureau located at: