How you store trash containers is a municipal matter in Somerset County. Bridgewater issues carts and directs where they sit on collection day; local property-maintenance codes bar overflowing or uncovered refuse. No single county rule governs bin storage or screening.
Trash-container storage falls to each municipality, since collection itself does. In contracted-service towns like Bridgewater, the town issues the cart and sets curbside rules — placed by 7:00 a.m., wheels toward the house — but leaves day-to-day storage between collections to the homeowner. What every Somerset town enforces through its property-maintenance code is the condition of refuse: containers must be kept so garbage does not overflow, attract vermin, or create odor, and cans left permanently at the curb or in the front yard can draw a nuisance citation. Screening requirements — keeping bins beside or behind the house — come from individual town ordinances and homeowners association covenants, not from the county.
Overflowing, uncovered, or improperly stored refuse that becomes a nuisance violates the municipal property-maintenance code, drawing a notice to abate and, if ignored, a municipal court fine.
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