[Adopted 11-15-1976 by Ord. No. 533]
No person, firm or corporation shall drive or
move any truck or other vehicle within the Township of Butler unless
such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any load, contents,
dirt, debris, material, litter or part thereof from being blown or
deposited upon any street or road in the Township.
No person, firm or corporation shall drive or
move any truck or other vehicle within the Township of Butler, the
wheels of which carry onto or deposit on any street or road in the
Township mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of
any kind.
All owners of property in the Township of Butler
shall maintain their property in such a manner that no dirt, mud,
stones or other material shall wash onto any streets or road in the
Township as the result of rainfall or drainage.
If, in the course of excavation, building, construction
or development of any property, any mud, dirt or any other foreign
substance is unavoidably carried onto any street or road in the Township,
it shall be the duty of the contractor having supervision over the
job to remove the same at the end of each workday so as to make the
street or road clean and safe for the passage of normal vehicular
traffic. In the event that said contractor does not remove the mud
or dirt or any other foreign substance at the end of the workday,
then it shall be the duty of the property owner to remove the same
within 24 hours thereafter.
[Amended 10-5-1998 by Ord. No. 765]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a summary
offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine in
an amount not less than $100 and not exceeding $600 and costs of prosecution,
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment
in the county jail for not more than 30 days. Each day a violation
is committed or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense and shall be punishable as such.