City Council supports requiring property owners to clean up trash within 3 days

New Bedford’s City Council – Committee on Ordinances approved by a 10-0 vote to make important changes to an ordinance related to trash. If the changes are approved during tomorrow’s City Council session, “property owners will have only three (3) days as opposed to fourteen (14) to dispose of litter that is a source of filth or that is dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare.”