§ 5-07 Operations.
RCNY § 5-07
(a)Every vehicle shall be maintained, operated, and used at all times only in full compliance with all applicable provisions of law, Federal, State, and local of the Sanitary Code and with all applicable rules and regulations and orders of all authorities, Federal, State and City having jurisdiction in the premises.
(b)Every vehicle shall be loaded at all times in such a manner and by such methods as to prevent the release or discharge of dust and to prevent spilling of materials upon sidewalks or roadways of streets and every operator of a vehicle shall remove immediately from sidewalks or roadways of streets all material spilled, littered, or thrown thereon in loading operations or in the handling and return of receptacles or while traveling.
(c)Materials loaded into vehicles shall be dumped or unloaded and disposed of only at points where disposal of the particular material may be made lawfully.
(d)The open top box type body of vehicle and containers on or in platform or panel type body vehicles shall be filled or loaded only to the limit of the cubic capacity assigned each and in no case above water level of box body or container; and no more than the number of containers called for by the permit or license shall be transported on or in the body of a vehicle transporting materials in containers.
(e)Operators of all types of vehicles shall exercise care at all times to prevent the making of unnecessary or avoidable noise in their operations.
(f)Each open top box type vehicle body shall be loaded only from front to rear and the partial load kept securely and fully covered at all times.
(g)Materials loaded in or upon vehicles shall not be re-worked, re-sorted, picked over, or rehandled while vehicle is on the streets and material shall not be transferred nor re-loaded from a vehicle while on the streets to or into any other vehicle, except that operators of Class 4 vehicles of the totally enclosed walk-in door type may sort materials only within and inside the body, during which periods the door or doors may be kept open. Operators of every class of vehicle shall not work, sort, pick over, or re-handle any materials after removal from the inside of premises served and before loading into vehicle body.
(h)Material shall not be carried at any time upon any vehicle other than solely within the vehicle body or solely within containers on or in the vehicle body when the permit or license applied for and issued is to carry materials in containers.
(i)After materials are dumped for disposal the vehicle body, whatever the type, and each container used, if the permit or license calls for containers,shall be emptied thoroughly and cleared of all loose materials.
(j)Each permittee or licensee shall clean and wash each vehicle and each container thoroughly inside and outside frequently so that each shall present a good appearance and be maintained free of dirt and offensive odors at all times.
(k)Ashes may be transported in Class 1 vehicles, but loads containing ashes will not be accepted for disposal at Department Destructors (incinerators). Except for ashes, Class 1 licensees shall not transport any materials specifically listed in any of the other five classes.
(l)Class 2, Class 4, Class 5, and Class 6 licensees shall each transport only the materials listed for the class for which a license was applied for and issued and no other materials.
(m)Class 3 permittees shall transport only materials originated and produced solely in the business operation of the permittee for which permit was issued and no other materials.
(n)If and when the Department has installed and in use scales at its disposal points and appropriate provision has been made for payment for reception and disposal of materials on a weight basis, the Commissioner reserves the right to require permittees and licensees desiring to use Department disposal points which must be used on a weight basis to pay the costs or fees for weighing each vehicle in the presence of the Commissioner's representative when the Commissioner determines that Department scales are not available for this purpose.
(o)Bodies of dead animals shall not be dissected outside of the premises from which removed, in the loading process, nor in the vehicle.
(p)All loading hoppers, doors, covers, or other closures of loading openings of all vehicles shall be kept closed and secured at all times excepting during actual loading through the particular opening.
(q)The two plates supplied for each vehicle by the Department of Consumer Affairs shall be kept securely affixed at the lower forward end of the body of the vehicle, one on each side of body, so placed to be visible at all times immediately above the required painted legend as to unladen vehicle weight and cubic capacity. The foregoing shall not apply to Class 3 vehicles nor to platform bodies of Class 4 and Class 5 vehicles. Class 3 vehicles shall affix the plates to sign required by 16 RCNY § 5-02(g) below the legend required by that section. Class 4 and Class 5 vehicles may display the plates either on the chassis or on the cab in a position and manner to make each readily visible.
(r)Each operator of a Class 3 vehicle shall display attached to the vehicle body the sign required by 16 RCNY § 5-02(g) at all times when the vehicle is transporting materials for which the permit was issued.
(s)Class 6 vehicle bodies shall not be loaded and shall not attempt to carry any material at any time above water level.
