St. George's, Newfoundland and Labrador
· adopted 2007-09-10
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## PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
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Pursuant to powers conferred by Section 414 of the Municipalities Act, 1999 the Town Council St. George's has made the following regulations.
E.sule
Mayor
## REGULATIONS
1. Interpretations: In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires:
- (a) "Act" means the Municipalities Act.
- (b) "authorized receptacles" means a litter, storage or collection receptacle as may be approved by the Council.
- "Council" means the Town Council of St. George's.
- (d) "hand bill" means a printed or written matter, circular, sample, advertisement, leaflet or paper, other than a newspaper of Her Majesty's mail.
- (e) "litter" means any obnoxious substance, waste or unsanitary matter, refuse, garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, paper wrappings, cardboard boxes, tin cans, leaves, wood, bedding, crockery, glass bottles and glass in all its forms, cement bags, and bags of all description and other matter or thing which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited tends, or is likely to cause or causes unsightliness within the Town or creates a danger to health, welfare, or public safety and includes apparently abandoned vehicles and appliances.
- (f) "person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
- (g) "Town" means the Town Council of St. George's.
- (h) "Town Clerk" means the Town Clerk of St. George's.
2. No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public place within the Town except in authorized receptacles for collection or in designated areas of the Town's waste disposal site.
- Persons placing litter in authorized receptacles or in the Town's waste disposal site shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place, or upon private property, or pond, river or stream.
4. No person shall sweep into or deposit into any gutter, street or other public place within the Town the accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private walkway or driveway, and every person owning or occupying property shall keep the area in front of their property free of litter.
5. No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or deposit litter of any description upon any street or other public place or upon private property within the Town.
6. No person shall operate any loaded vehicle within the Town unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded so as to prevent the load from being blown or deposited upon any street, lane or public place or private property.
7. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any park within the Town except in authorized receptacles and in such a manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street or any part of the park or any other public place or private property, and where authorized 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.
8. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any ditch, pond or stream or other body of water in any park or elsewhere within the Town.
9. No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other matter or device calculated to attract the attention of the public to any lamp post, public utility pole, tree, or upon any public structure or building except as may be authorized by the Council or required by law.
10. No person shall throw or deposit litter on any private property within the Town, whether the property is owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person in control of private property may maintain authorized 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.
- It shall be unlawful for any person to demolish or scrap any vehicle on private or public property within the Town without first having obtained a permit in writing from Council for that purpose.
- (ii) The cost of a permit referred to in subsection (I) of this regulation shall be $25.00, which amount shall be refunded if the demolished or scrapped vehicle is discarded
or dumped at a site approved by Council within twenty-one (21) days from the date of issue of the permit.
- (iiii) Council shall have the right to remove from any private or public property any vehicle which has been demolished or scrapped without a permit and recover the cost of doing so from the owner as a civil debt.
12. The Town Clerk is empowered and authorized to order, by means of a notice signed by the owner or occupier or any private property within the Town, to properly dispose of any or all litter located on such property.
13. If the notice referred to in Section 12 is not complied with insofar as the Council regards as reasonable within the time named in the notice, the Council may carry out the directions contained in the notice through its officers, agents, employees or contractors and recover the cost of so doing as a civil debt from the person on whom the notice was served.
14. It shall be the duty of any person appointed by the Council to enforce these regulations:
- (i) to report the name and address of any person observed or reliably reported to have violated any of the provisions of these regulations.
- (ii) to report the time and nature of the violation of the regulations and any circumstances being relevant to the violation.
- to serve upon the person violating any provision of these regulations a serially numbered notice that the person concerned has violated a provision of the regulations and instructing such person to carry out any order in regard to such violation.
- (iv) to furnish the Town Clerk a duplicate of each serially numbered notice of violation.
15. Pursuant to Section 419 of the Act, every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or in default of payment to a period of imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days or to both such fine and period of imprisonment.
16. These regulations were adopted and passed by Council on the l0M day of Sptembe 2001 and shall come into effect on the lot day of Septemle 2007 may be cited as the Town of St. George's (Anti-Litter) Regulations, 2007.
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Debra Wooludge
Town Clerk
## Amendment to Anti-Litter Regulations dated 10th September 2007:
## Insert
## Section 12
- (1) No person shall repair, dismantle or scrap a vehicle on residential property.
2. (iii) No person shall deposit, discard or keep a wrecked, discarded, dismantled, or abandoned vehicle, trailer or other machinery or any parts thereof on a residential property.
3. (ii) Repair in section (l) shall not apply to repairs of a minor nature such as repairing flat tires, boosting batteries, changing filters or replacing spark plugs, to a vehicle which is owned by an occupant of the residential property on which the repairs are being effected.
4. (iv) Council shall have the right to remove from any residential property any discarded, dismantled, or abandoned vehicle, trailer or other machinery of any part thereof on a residential property and recover the cost of doing so from the owner as a civil debt.
Renumber current sections 12 - 16 as 13 - 17