[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
by Ord. No. 6-1995. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall spit upon the floor of public buildings or buildings
used for public assemblage or in buses or any other public conveyance.
The voiding of human urine or excrement on any street, sidewalk,
public property, or private property is prohibited.
No owner or operator of any lavatory or washroom in any bar,
hotel, restaurant, factory, theater, school, store, office building,
public building, transportation station, or public conveyance shall
provide in or about such lavatory or washroom any towel for common
use. As used herein, "common use" shall mean use by more than one
person without cleansing.
The use of common cups and common drinking or eating utensils
in any public place or public institution or in any bar, hotel, restaurant,
factory, theater, school, store, office building, public building,
or transportation station, or the furnishing of any such common drinking
cup or drinking or eating utensil for common use in any such place,
is prohibited. As used herein, "common use" means use by more than
one person without cleaning.
No person shall sell, offer for sale or use any metal or foil
breast shields made of or containing lead.
A.
No polish or any article or substance containing any cyanide preparation
or other poison shall be sold or offered for sale when such sale is
obviously or presumably for the cleaning of nickel, copper, silverware
or silver-plated ware or other articles or utensils used for the service
or preparation of food or foodstuffs.
B.
No polish or article or substance containing any cyanide preparation
or other poison shall be used for the cleaning of nickel, copper,
silverware or silver-plated ware or other articles or utensils used
for the service or preparation of food or foodstuffs.
No person shall sweep into the street from the sidewalk any
paper, dirt, rubbish, or other waste materials, nor shall any person
throw, discard or deposit upon the streets or sidewalks any paper,
dirt, rubbish, or other waste materials.
A.
No person shall deposit any refuse, offal, pomace, dead animals,
decaying matter, or organic substance of any kind in or upon any private
or public lot, building, structure, accessory structure, premises,
dwelling, or into any waters of the commonwealth so that the same
shall or may afford food, harborage or breeding areas for rats, flies
or other vectors.
B.
No person shall deposit or permit or cause to accumulate in or upon
any premises, improved or vacant, or upon any open lot or alley, any
lumber, boxes, barrels, bottles, cans, glass, scrap iron, wire, metal
articles, pipe, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken plaster
or rubbish of any kind, unless the same is stored in approved covered
receptacles or placed on open racks that are elevated not less than
18 inches above the ground and evenly piled or stacked, or disposed
of as may be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection.
C.
No person shall maintain a junkyard or a place for the dumping or
wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery
of any kind or for the storage or leaving of dilapidated, wrecked
or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, machinery of any kind,
or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any
machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by any other
persons, which such places may afford harborage or breeding areas
for rats or other vectors.
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Editor's Note: This section derives from Ord. No. 22-1985.
