This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Doylestown Township
Anti-Litter Ordinance."
For the purpose of this chapter, the following, terms, phrases, words
and the derivation therefrom shall have the meaning given herein:
AUTHORIZED PRIVATE RECEPTACLE
A litter storage and collection receptacle to be used by residents
and visitors to Doylestown Township to convey litter to trash haulers for
collection.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse, rubbish, and all other waste material which, if
discarded as herein prohibited, tends to create a danger to the health, safety
and welfare of the public.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company
or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any dwelling, house, building or other structure, designed or used,
either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes, whether inhabited
or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include the
yard, grounds, and driveway belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house,
building, or other structure.
PUBLIC BUILDING
Any facility either owned or leased by Doylestown Township, the Central
Bucks School District, the County of Bucks, or any other public agency, except,
however, a public building shall not be defined to include any facilities
operated by the County of Bucks for correctional or penal purposes.
PUBLIC GROUNDS
Any grounds owned or leased by Doylestown Township, the Central Bucks
School District, the County of Bucks, or any other public agency, except,
however, a public ground shall not be defined to include any facilities operated
by the County of Bucks for correctional or penal purposes.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public
ways and any and all public grounds and public buildings.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste (excluding body waste),
including garbage, rubbish, cigarette butts, cigar butts, other tobacco residue,
ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned automobiles and other waste.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid waste consisting of both combustible and noncombustible
wastes, such as paper wrappings, cigarettes and cigarette butts, cigars and
cigar butts, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding,
crockery and similar materials.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
No person shall throw, deposit or discard litter in or upon any street,
sidewalk, public place or public grounds within the Township except in public
receptacles and authorized private receptacles for collection.
Private receptacles shall be maintained by the property and/or business
owner placing the private receptacle, which said maintenance shall include
a secure lid as well as a means to prevent the receptacle from tipping over
and spreading litter.
A person placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized private
receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried
or deposited by any means upon any street, sidewalk or other public place
or grounds or upon private property.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other
public place or grounds within the Township the accumulation of any litter
from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway.
Persons owning or occupying property shall keep any sidewalk in front of their
premises free of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep into or
deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Township the
accumulation of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private
sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying places of business within
the Township shall keep any sidewalk in front of their business premises free
of litter.
No person shall throw or deposit and/or discard litter in any park or
public grounds within the Township except in public receptacles and in such
manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by
any means upon any part of the park or upon any street or other public place.
Where public receptacles are not provided, all such litter shall be carried
away from the park or public grounds by the person responsible for its presence
and properly disposed of elsewhere.
No person shall throw, deposit or discard litter in any pond, lake or
stream or any other body of water in the Township.
No person shall throw, discard or deposit litter on any private property
within the Township, whether owned by such person or not; except that the
owner or person in control of private property may maintain authorized private
receptacles for collection in such manner that litter will be prevented from
being carried, discarded or deposited by any means upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place or any private property.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall at all
times maintain the premises free of litter; provided, however, that this section
shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized private receptacles
for collection.
In addition to any other remedies provided to the Township at law, any
person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of
a summary offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine
in an amount not exceeding $300; provided, however, that in the event the
violation is related to the discarding, depositing or other littering of cigarette,
cigar, pipe or other smoking paraphernalia, then in the event of a conviction
of a violation related to the litter of tobacco products, shall be subject
to a fine in an amount not in excess of $1,000. In addition to the imposition
of a fine as set forth herein, the sentencing judge may, in his or her judgment,
impose an obligation to perform community service as part of or in lieu of
the imposition of a fine. Each day that such violation is committed or permitted
to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as
such.