As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
NUISANCE
That which is set up, maintained or continued so as to be
injurious to health or that which is an obstruction to the use of
property by interfering with the health, safety, comfort or repose
of the public.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, association or corporation,
as well as all officers, agents, servants, employees or others acting
for any of the same, and shall be taken as applying in the singular
or plural as the case may require.
Any person who creates, continues or maintains
any public nuisance within the Township shall be deemed guilty of
a violation of this article and shall be liable for the expense and
abatement and remedy thereof as well as such fines and penalties as
may be imposed.
Without in any manner intending to limit or
restrict the generality of the above definition of and prohibition
against a nuisance, the following are hereby declared to constitute
nuisances:
A. Dumping. It shall be unlawful to throw, deposit or
dump any paper, building material, construction material, trash, rubbish,
ashes, junk, waste or discarded materials of any kind on any street,
highway or any public place or on any private property within the
limit of the Township of Upper Gwynedd.
[Amended 4-22-1985 by Ord. No. 85-6]
B. Lot maintenance. It shall be unlawful for any owner
or occupant upon any property within the Township of Upper Gwynedd
to permit or suffer the accumulation thereon of any water that stagnates,
paper, trash, rubbish, ashes, junk, waste or discarded materials of
any kind.
In the event that such person should fail, neglect
or refuse to make such conditions safe or to correct or remove such
conditions to the satisfaction of the Township, then the Township
may abate or cause to be abated said nuisance, and the expense of
such abatement shall be paid by the responsible person.
All costs and expenses incurred by the Township
in the abatement of such condition shall be a lien upon the premises,
and whenever a bill therefor remains unpaid for a period of 60 days
after it has been rendered, the Township Solicitor shall file a municipal
claim or an action of assumpsit for such cost and expenses, together
with a penalty of 10%, in the manner provided by law for the collection
of municipal claims.