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Home My WebLink AboutOrd 231 06/22/1943 ~->"......JJ.' M :).;3 ( ---.- AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND A1f ORDINANOE ENTITLED I AN ORDIHAlfCE TO ESTABLISH AID KAII!AIN A GARBAGE SYSTEH FOR THE COLLECTION .AND DIS- POSAL OF GARBAGE II THE VILLAGE or KOUNT PROSp,ECT", PASSED AND APPROVED JUNE 10, 1942. PUBLISHED JUNE 19. 1942. ~ '- BE IT ORDAINED BY TD PRESIDENT AND BOARD or TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF KOUNT PROSPECT, COUNTY OF COOK AND STATE or ILLINOIS, that an ordinance entitled DAn Ordinance to-Establish and Maintain a Garbage System for the Collection and Disposal of Garbage in the Village of Kount Prospect", passed and approve' June 10, 1942, published June 19, 1942, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: , ( Section 1. Definitions: For the purposes of this ordinance the word "garbage" is hereby detined to mean any rejected or waste household tood, offal, swill, or carrion. The word Imanure" is hereby detined to mean the excrement ot all domestic animals and fowls, stable bedding, or all hay, straw, shavings, grass, weeds or leaves which have been used tor stable bedding. The term laiscellaneous wastel is hereby detined to mean dust, and all retuse ex~ept excrement, dead animals and parts thereof, and articles and substances herein included under "garbagel, and "manure". Section 2. SUDervislon: All matters relating to or atfecting the collection, removal or disposal ot household refuse or waste material in the Village of Kount Prospect, shall be under the direction of the Health and Drainage Committee, and shall be under the supervision of the Superintendent of Streets. Section 3. Collection and DisDOSa! ot Waste Katerial: The Superintendent ot Streets shall cause all garbage and miscellaneous waste material, as same are hereinabove defined, to be collected regularly and systematically throughout the +-. . . Village. All garbage and all miscellaneous waste shall be collected in the manner prescribed by the Board of !rustee. and shall be disposed of at such places as may be designated by the Board ot Trustees; provided, that papers, dry leaves, and other refuse trom plants, except branches of trees, may be burned upon the premises upon whiCh they accumulated if proper precautions are taken to prevent the spread ot fire, but in no event shall any material be burned upon any public street or alley. Section 4. Recentacles - Number - Size - Iind- Location: For the proper and economieal separation and collection ot the classes ot waste material hereinabove de- fined as garbage and miscellaneous waste, every owner or tenant ocoupying premises in the Village ot Rount Prospect shall pro- vide a separate receptacle tor each class ot waste above enum- erated, and every such owner and tenant shall cause the retuse and waste material trom said premises to be placed in said receptacles a8 follows: All garbage in one receptaole, and all bottles, cans, broken orockery and other kinds of miscellaneous waste shall be placed 1n another receptacle. The several receptacles shall be sufficient in size and nuaber to hold one week's accumulat10n, and shall at all times be maintained in good order. The filthy, leaking or defective receptacles shall be promptly cleaned or repaired or replaced with new ones. The garbage receptacles shall be metal or of such other material as shall be approved by the Board of Trustees. Receptacles shall be fitted with strong handles on the sides and Shall be watertight. Garbage receptaoles shall have a capaoity ot not Ie" than twenty (20) gallons. All -2- ~ I . . receptacles anal1 be sUbJeot to the approval ot the Superin- tendent ot Streets. Garbage shall be drained of moisture and wrapped in paper betore it is deposited in the receptacle. Receptacles to which garbage is trozen, through tailure to observe the above regulations, and all garbage receptacles containing water, slops, or manure will not be emptied by the collector. Seotion 5. Duty ot Householder: It shall be the duty ot every owner or his agent or tenant occupying or in possession of any building, hous., or dwel11ng place in the Village, which is a private residence, and tor which a recep- tacle for garbage and a receptacle tor miscellaneous waste, or either of them, have been provided, to place or cause to be placed suoh reoeptaole, tor the removal ot the contents thereot, at such plaoe and at such times as the Superintendent ot Streets may direct. It shall be unlawful for any person to place any such receptacle in any alley, street, lane, parkway, park or public place within the Village. Section 6. Contents - Removal: It shall be unlawful tor any person to deposit 1n any receptacle tor garbage, any article or thing but garbage. It shall be unlawful for anr person other than a soavenger employed or licensed by the Vil- lage or the owner, occupant, tenant or person 1n possession ot the premises tor which a receptaole for garbage and tor m1soel- laneous waste, or either at them, has been provided, or his agents or employees, to deposit any article or thing in suoh receptao1e or to remove, displace, injure, deface, destroy, uncover, or in any manner disturb such receptacle or any portion of its contents. Hereatter no ragp1cker or other collector shall be permitted to gather or collect or remove from any street, alley -3- or other public place in the Village, or to intertere with or disturb, any of the receptacles tor garbage or other refuse provided tor b1 this ordinance, or to remove therefrom any ot the contents thereot. Section 7. Retuse in Streets and Alleys: It shall be unlawtul for any person, firm or corporation to deposit or place in any manner whatsoever, in or upon any sidewalk, street, alle1, park or public place in the Village of Mount Prospect, refuse ot any kind whatsoever; provided that this section shall not apply to the depos1t of material under a permit authorized by an ordinance of the Village ot Hount Prospect, nor to goods, wares or merchandise deposited upon any street, sidewalk, alley or other public place temporar1ly, in the necessary course ot trade, and removed therefrom within two (2) hours after being so d~osited; nor to artlcles or things deposited In, or con- ducted into the Village sewerage system through lawful drains 1n accordance with the or4inances ot the Village of Mount Prospect relating thereto. Seotion 8. DeDos1t of Waste Material: 10 pile or deposit of manure, offal, dirt, ashes or garbage, nor any accumulation of any offensive or nauseous substance shall be made within the Village of Mount Prospect or upon any open space enolosed within any portion thereot, or upon any open grounds, except according to a permit obtained from the Health and Drainage Comm1ttee,and according to its regulations; and no person shall place or ca..e to be placed upon any public vay, or upon the root ot any building, or upon the surtace ot an,. lot or parcel of ground, an,. straw, ha,.,Shavings, or other substance, which has been used as bedding for animals, for the purpose of drying such substance or storing the saae; nor shall any person burn or cause to be burned any such straw, hay, -4- ~~- I shavings, or other substance which has been used as bedding tor animals, in any place other than a place designated by the Health and Drainage Committee, and then only upon a permit issued in writing by the Health and Drainage Committee tor that purpose. Sectlon .~ Garbage and Materials Not ReBoved tro. Stores and Dwellings: The Village at Haunt Prospect shall not remove garbage, tin cans, bottles, or other rubbish pro- duoed in stores, restaurants or taverns, but these must be disposed at by the owner or occupants ot such store, restaurant or tavern at his or their own expense, and also all ashes, large bottles or other rubbish must be disposed ot by the owner or occupants at houses, tlats, apartments or tenements at his or thelr own expense. The Village ot Haunt Prospect shall not remove any glass, old turnaces or pipes, or other metal or glass waste tram hardware stores, tinshops, or plaoe at business ot glaziers, sheetmetal workers or contractors, nor gutters, plaster, turnaoes, and other debris trom building or remodeling operations, or manure trom any plaoe, allot which materials must be removed by the owner or occupant ot the premises upon which said materials accumulated. Section 10. Swill and Otfensive Liauids: No swill or garbage or ottensive material ot a liquid nature or partly liquid nature not removed or required to be removed by the Vil- lage of Mount Prospect shall be transported through nor along any street or alley in the Village except in tightly covered and bound casks or boxes, and none ot the contents at such casks or boxes shall be allowed to tall, leak, or spill therefrom. Section 11. Penalties: Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with, or who resists any ot the provisions ot this ordinance, or who retuses -5- . . '"' .. or negleots to obey any ot the rules, orders or sanitary regu- latlons ot the Health and Drainage Committee promulgated 11l pursuance to the provisions ot this ordlnance, or who omits, neglects or retuses to coaply with, or who resists any otticer or or4er or special regulation ot said Health and Dralnage Committee pursuant to the provlsions at tbis ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be subject to a tine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and Dot less than TworDollars ($2.00), and such person shall be deemed gullty ot a separate and distinct ottense tor every day during which he violates or retuse., neglects or tails to comply with any ot the requirements ot this ordinance. Section 12. All ordinances or part s ot ordinances whlch maY contlict with thls ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 13. This ordinance shall be in full torce and ettect trom and atter its passage, approval and publication according to law. PASSED, tbis 22nd day of June, 1943. Recording Votes: Aye. !Jz::~f:~ ~ ~...- ~ -' f~~~ ~-~ U Nay.: None. APPROVED, this 22nd day ot June, 1943. 5\ L'~~~~ J )resldent ot oard 0 Trustees ot ~illage of Mount Prospect, Cook County, Illinois. Published this day ot Recorded this - day ot , A. D. 1943. , A. D. 1943. -6- Vll1sge Clerk