[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
by Ord. No. 6-1995. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Every vacant lot shall be kept free from the growth of noxious
weeds and other offensive vegetation and shall be kept free of accumulations
of rubbish, garbage, junk, abandoned vehicles, discarded property,
and similar materials, and no person shall deposit or dump any such
materials upon any vacant lot unless it has been designated as a disposal
site by the Director of Public Works.
It shall be the duty of the owner of a vacant lot to prohibit
the dumping or littering thereof with rubbish, garbage, junk, discarded
property, or other similar materials and to cause the same to be removed.
No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained any vacant
land on which pools of water stand or stagnate. Such vacant land shall
be kept at all times clean, inoffensive and free from the accumulation
of water thereon.
No ground or vacant lot filled with offensive matter or substance
that will emit therefrom any offensive odors shall be opened or turned
up, except upon the approval of the Health Officer. If, unknowingly,
offensive matter is unearthed, the Health Officer shall be notified
at once and the condition remedied as directed by the Health Officer.
