[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of South Whitehall 6-9-1969 by Ord. No. 115. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 12-21-1978 by Ord. No. 290]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this
chapter, unless form the particular context it clearly appears that
some other meaning is intended:
Any waste paper, ashes, glass, grass, clippings, trimmings,
advertisement circulars and similarly unsolicited published materials,
samples, rotting fruit, fruit peelings, cans, dirt, rubbish, waste,
garbage, refuse or any accumulation of used or secondhand material
or any animal excrement.[1]
An individual, partnership, firm or corporation.
The Township of South Whitehall.
[Amended 3-14-1983 by Ord. No. 360]
It shall be unlawful for any person or business
to throw, dump, place or leave or cause to be thrown, dumped, placed
or left any litter on any streets, roadways, alleys, sidewalks vacant
lots in or on the grounds of any public park, swimming pools, playgrounds,
recreation areas, public buildings, streams water or banks of such
streams or rivers located within the Township.
A.
The use of grass clippings as an organic mulch, not
to exceed four inches in depth, shall not be construed as "litter"
when such clippings are placed on private property as part of border
or bedding plantings of shrubs or flowers or on garden plots.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit
the accumulation of litter on property which it owns or occupies to
such an extent that the litter is blown, carried or swept onto adjacent
property owned by other persons or by the Township.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store
or retain litter in any open area except in adequate receptacles which
control and conceal said litter. Furthermore, it shall be unlawful
for anyone operating a commercial business or industrial activity
within the Township to store or retain litter in any open area except
in receptacles which are placed in totally enclosed collection and
disposal areas.
[Amended 2-7-1989 by Ord. No. 449[1]]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine not to exceed $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30
days. Each day that a violation of this chapter continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
