This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Air Pollution Control
Ordinance."
Whereas pollution of the air is detrimental to the health, comfort,
living conditions, welfare and safety of the citizens of the Township of Marple,
it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Township of Marple to safeguard
the citizens of the township from air pollution.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, unless
the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the following meanings
respectively ascribed to them:
AIR CONTAMINATION SOURCE
Any place, facility or equipment, stationary or mobile, at, from
or by reason of which there is emitted into the outdoor atmosphere any air
contaminant.
AIR POLLUTION
The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of any form of contaminant,
including, but not limited to, the discharging from stacks, chimneys, openings,
buildings, structures, open fires, vehicles, processes or any other source
of any smoke, soot, fly ash, dust, cinders, dirt, noxious or obnoxious acids,
fumes, oxides, gases, vapors, odors, toxic, hazardous or radioactive substances,
waste or any other matter in such place, manner or concentration inimical
or which may be inimical to the public health, safety or welfare or which
is or may be injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property or which
unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property.
FLUE
Any duct, passage, stack, chimney or conduit permitting air contaminants
to be emitted into the open air.
FUEL-BURNING EQUIPMENT
Any furnace or other device, excluding incinerators, in which fuel
is burned for the production of steam, hot water or hot air, and from which
products of combustion are the sole stack effluent.
GARBAGE
All putrescible animal and vegetable matter, including but not limited
to offal, dead animals and any liquid substance derived therefrom, resulting
from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
INCINERATOR
Any device specifically designed for the destruction by burning of
refuse, sewage sludge or other combustible waste material.
ODOR
That property of a substance which affects the sense of smell.
OPEN BURNING
Any unenclosed fire wherein products of combustion are emitted to
the open air and are not directed thereto through a flue.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm,
trust, corporation or other entity recognized by law as the subject of rights
and duties, including any governmental agency.
REFUSE
Garbage, rubbish and trade waste.
RINGELMANN SMOKE CHART
The Ringelmann scale for grading the density of smoke, as defined
in Information Circular 7718 of the United States Bureau of Mines.
RUBBISH
Solids not considered to be highly flammable or explosive, including
but not limited to rags, old clothes, leather, rubber, carpets, wood, excelsior,
paper, ashes, tree branches, tree leaves, yard trimmings, furniture, tin cans,
glass, crockery, masonry and other similar materials.
SALVAGE OPERATIONS
Salvaging or reclaiming of any product or material, including but
not limited to metals, chemicals, shipping containers or drums.
SMOKE
Particulate matter produced by incomplete combustion of organic substances,
including but not limited to fly ash, cinders, tarry matter, soot or carbon
and gaseous combustion products or unburned gases accompanying or free of
the aforementioned particulate matter.
TRADE WASTE
All solid or liquid material or rubbish resulting from construction,
building operations or the prosecution of any business, trade or industry,
including but not limited to plastic products, cartons, paint, grease, oil
and other petroleum products, chemicals, cinders and other forms of solid
or liquid waste materials.