[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Chesterfield
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-17-1944]
From and after the date of the passage of this article, no person shall
cast, throw, drain or discharge or cause to be cast, thrown, drained or discharged
into any public street or highway, gutter or other public place within the
Township of Chesterfield any slops, kitchen water or other liquid of such
character as to cause the air in such public street, highway or other public
place to become offensive to the senses or injurious to the public health,
and the doing of any such act shall be deemed to be a nuisance.
No person shall keep or maintain any animal or animals in such close
proximity to any dwelling house within the Township of Chesterfield so that
offensive odors are thereby created, being offensive to persons occupying
such dwelling houses, and any such account is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
No person shall deposit or accumulate any offal or any decaying animal
or vegetable substance in or upon any lot of land or building in such close
proximity to any private dwelling house within said township which shall emit
odors offensive to the inhabitants or owners of such private dwellings and
become injurious to public health, the same being declared to be a nuisance.
[Amended 5-4-1989 by Ord. No. 1989-3]
Any person creating or maintaining any of the foregoing nuisances shall
be subject to a fine of $100 for each offense and, in the event that the person
creating or maintaining such a nuisance shall have been notified by written
notice given by any members of the Board of Health of Chesterfield Township,
shall be liable to an additional penalty of $5 for each and every day that
such offense or nuisance is continued after the giving of such notice.
[Adopted 8-3-1957]
It shall be unlawful to deposit or throw any wastepaper, tin can, pail,
box, basket, old shoes and boots, dead animals, fruit or pieces of fruit,
garbage, cinders, ashes, refuse, rubbish or waste of any kind into or alongside
of any public highway, road or public place in the Township of Chesterfield.
[Amended 7-9-1981 by Ord. No. 1981-3]
Any person depositing or throwing any wastepaper, tin can, pail, box,
basket, old shoes and boots, dead animals, fruit or pieces of fruit, garbage,
cinders, ashes, refuse, rubbish or waste of any kind into or alongside of
any public highway, road or public place in the Township of Chesterfield shall
be guilty of committing a nuisance and shall, upon conviction, forfeit and
pay a penalty not to exceed the sum of $500.
