Smithtown, NY Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Section 177-16 of the Solid Waste Management Law makes route and schedule compliance a licensing duty rather than a mere courtesy. Every licensee must effect collection of solid waste on the routes and days set forth in its license application, and if the licensee fails to complete a collection within 24 hours after the due date, or otherwise misses a deadline set elsewhere in Chapter 177, the Town reserves the right to perform the collection itself and deduct the cost from the deposit the licensee posted with the Town.

The Town can also revoke the license outright for that failure. Where the Town has to perform the collection and draws down the deposit, the licensee must replenish it with an additional deposit paid to the Town Comptroller within 14 days of a written demand; if the Town Comptroller reports the licensee failed to make that payment within 14 days, the Town Board may suspend the license until the deposit is restored. This dovetails with § 177-15, which gives the Town Board authority to designate the routes vehicles must use to reach a solid waste management facility, and with § 177-17, which requires all acceptable waste collected in Town to go only to a facility the Town Board has designated, with at least 10 days' notice before any change in that designation takes effect.