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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 226 06/10/1942 ~ _~j~,r,,-:-:- N~ :;rtb AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A GARBAGE SYSTEM FOR THE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE IN THE VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT. BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mount Prospect, County of Cook and State of Illinoi s : Section 1. Definitions: For the purposes of this :;;- ordinance the word "garbage" is hereby defined to mes.n any rejected or waste household food, offal, swill, or carrion. The word "ashes" is hereby defined to mean all ashes of wood, coal, and coke, the residue resulting from the combu~lon of any material or substance, soot, cinders, slag or charcoal. The word "manure" is hereby defined to mean the excrement of all domestic animals and fowls, stable bedding, or all hay, straw, shavings, grass, weeds or leaves which have been used for stable bedding. The term "miscellaneous waste" is hereby defined to mean dust, and all refuse except excrement, dead animals and parts thereof, and articles and substances herein included under "garbagell, lIashesll and "manure." Section 2. Supervision: All matters relating to or affecting the collection, removal or disposal of household refuse or waste material in the Village of Mount Prospect, un- less specifically placed under the direction of the Commissioner of Health, shall be subject to and under the supervision and direc- tion of the Superintendent of Streets. Section 3. Collection and Disposal of Waste Material: The Superintendent of Streets shall cause all garbage, ashes and miscellaneous waste material, as same are hereinabove de- fined, to be collected regularly and systematically throughout the Village. All garbage, ashes and all miscellaneous waste shall be collected in the manner prescribed by the Board of ~~ Trustees and shall be disposed of at such places as may be designated by the Board of Trusteesj provided, that papers, dry leaves, and other refuse from plants, except branches of trees, may be burned upon the premises upon which they accumu- lated if proper precautions are taken to prevent the spread of fire, but in no event shall any material be burned upon any public street or alley. Section 4. Rece~tacles - Number - Size - Kind - Location: For the proper and economical separation and col- lection of the classes of waste material hereinabove defined as garbage, ashes and miscellaneous waste, every owner or tenant occupying premises in the Village of Mount Prospect shall provide a separate receptacle for each class of waste above enumerated, and every such owner and tenant shall cause the refuse and waste material from said premises to be placed in said receptacles as follows: All ashes shall be placed in one receptacle, all garbage in another receptacle, and all bottles, cans, broken crockery and other kinds of miscellaneous waste shall be placed in a third receptacle. The several receptacles shall be sufficient in size and number to hold one week's accumulation, 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 and ash re- ceptacles shall be of metal or concrete with close-fitting covers. Metal receptacles shall be fitted with strong handles on the sides and shall be watertight. Garbage receptacles shall have a capacity of not less than twenty (20) gallons and ash receptacles of not less than thirty (30) gallons. All -2- receptacles shall be subject to the approval of the Superin- tendent of Streets. Garbage shall be drained of moisture and wrapped in paper before it is deposited in the receptacle. Receptacles to which garbage is frozen, through failure to observe the above regulations, and all garbage or ash receptacles contain- ing water, slops, or manure will not be emptied by the collector. Section 6. Duty of Householder: It shall be the duty of every owner or his agent or tenant occupying or in possession of any building, house, or dwelling place in the Village, which is a private residence, and for which a recep- tacle for garbage and a receptacle for ashes and a receptacle for miscellaneous waste, or any of them, have been provided, to place or cause to be placed such receptacle, for the removal of the contents thereof, at the rear of the building, house or dwelling place, or at such place and at such times as the Superintendent of 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 unlaw- ful for any person to deposit in any receptacle for garbage, any article or thing but garbage, or to deposit in any recep- tacle for ashes or for miscellaneous waste any article or thing but ashes or miscellaneous waste. It Shall be unlawful for any person other than a scavenger employed or licensed by the Village or the owner, occupant, tenant or person in possession of the premises for which a receptacle for garbage and a re- ceptacle for ashes and for miscellaneous waste, or any of them, has been provided, or his agents or employees, to deposit any article or thing in such receptacle or to remove, displace, -3- injure, deface, destroy, uncover, or in any manner disturb such receptacle or any portion of its contents. Hereafter no ragpicker or other collector shall be permitted to gather or collect or remove from any street, alley or other public place in the Village, or to interfere with or disturb, any of the receptacles for garbage or other refuse provided tor by this ordinance, or to remove therefrom any ot the contents thereof. Section 7. Retuse in Streets and Alleys: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit or place in any manner whatsoever, in or upon any sidewalk, street, alley, park or public place in the Village of Mount Prospect, retuse of any kind whatsoever; provided that this section shall not apply to the deposit of material under a permit authorized by an ordinance of the Village of Mount Prospect, nor to goods, wares or merchandise deposited upon any street, sidewalk, alley or other public place temporarily, in the necessary course of trade, and removed therefrom within two (2) hours after being so deposited; nor to articles or things deposited in, or con- ducted into the Village sewerage system through lawful drains in accordance with the ordinances of the Village of Mount Prospect relating thereto. Section 8. Deposit ot Manure: No pile or deposit of manure, offal, dirt, or garbage, nor any accumulation ot any offensive or nauseous substance sha.ll be made within the Village of Mount Prospect or upon any open space enclosed within any portion thereof, or upon any open grounds, except according to a permit obtained from the Department of Health, and according to its regulations; and no person shall place or cause to be placed upon any public way, or upon the roof -4- ~ of any building, or upon the surface of any lot or parcel of ground, any straw, hay, shavings, or oth~r substance, which has been used as bedding for animals, for the purpose of dry- ing such substance or storing the same; nor shall any person burn or cause to be burned any such straw, hay, shavings, or other substance which has been used as bedding for animals, in any place other than a place designated by the Board of Health, and then only upon a permit issued in writing by the Board of Health for that purpose. SAntlon 9. Stores - Materials Hot Removed: The Village of Mount Prospect shall remove only ashes from grocery stores, butcher shops, fruit stores and restaurants. All other waste from premises put to said uses shall be removed by the owner or occupants of said premises. The Village of Mount Prospect shall not remove any glass, old furnaces or pipes, or other metal or glass waste from hardware stores, tinshops, or place of business of glaziers, sheetmetal workers or con- tractors, nor gutters, plaster, furnaces, and other debris from building or remodeling operations, or manure from any place, all of which materials must be removed by the owner or occupant of the premises upon which said materials accumulated. Section 10. Swill and Offensive Liquids: No swill or garbage or offensive material of a liquid nature or partly liquid nature not removed or required to be removed by the Village of Mount Prospect shall be transported through nor along any street or alley in the V1llage except in tightly covered and bound casks or boxes, and none of the contents of such casks or boxes shall be allowed to fall, leak, or spill therefrom. -~ ~ Seotion 11. Penalties: Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to oomply with, or who resists any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who refuses or negleots to obey any of the rules, orders or sanitary regu- lations of the Department of Health promulgated in pursuanoe to the provisions of this ordinanoe, or who omits, neglects or refuses to oomply with, or who resists any officer or order or speoial reg~lation of said Department of Health pursuant to the provisions of this ordinanoe, shall, upon oonviotion, be subjeot to a fine not exoeeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) and not less than Two Dollars ($2.00), and suoh person shall be deemed guilty of a separate and distinot offense for every day during which he violates or refuses, negleots or fails to oomply with any of the requirements of this ordinanoe. Section 12. All ordinances or parts of ordinanoes whioh may oonfliot with this ordinanoe are hereby repealed. Section 13. This ordinanoe shall be in full force and effeot from and after its passage, approval and publioation aooording to law. d- PASSED, this 10- day of June, 1942. Recording Votes: Ayes ~~ ~~ ~~.,. ~~-p ~4~ 4 ~- , A.D. 1942. I A.D. 1942. Published this Reoorded this day of day of V,111a~e Clerk -6-