Hamburg Village, NY Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Section 198-16 is the entire yard waste rule in the Village of Hamburg, and it is short. Subsection A authorizes the Director of Public Works to provide for the collection of brush and tree parts at such times and in such manner as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time provide. The chapter prints no fixed brush schedule, so the current schedule comes from the Board of Trustees and the Department of Public Works, not from the code text.

Subsection B narrows that authorization to brush and tree parts produced by the individual activity or efforts of the owner or occupant of the property. A homeowner who trims a hedge or drops a limb can use the service. Work done by someone else is outside it.

Subsection C covers commercial contractors. Brush and tree parts produced by a contractor must be removed from the property by the contractor or by the owner or occupant. They cannot be placed at or near the curb or street right-of-way, except temporarily as necessary in the course of the work that produced them. Subsection D closes the loop: the Village of Hamburg will not collect or remove brush or tree parts produced by commercial contractors.

The rule sits in Chapter 198, Solid Waste Management, so that chapter's enforcement clause applies. Section 198-25 directs the Director of Public Works, a police officer or another person designated by the Board of Trustees to enforce it. Separately, the Village stormwater article in Chapter 186 bars any discharge of materials other than stormwater into the municipal separate storm sewer system (§ 186-20), and § 186-16 names yard waste among the pollutants it targets, so clippings do not go into a street inlet.