[Adopted 7-12-1971 as Ch. 50, Art. II, of the 1971 Code]
The rules and regulations of the Board of Health
of the Township of Marple, as approved by said Board on February 12,
1957, governing the keeping, collection and disposal of rubbish and
garbage from within the Township of Marple, be and are hereby approved.
From and after this date, the keeping, collection
and/or disposal of garbage within the Township of Marple shall be
governed by and subject to the following rules and regulations.
A.
BOARD
COLLECTOR
GARBAGE
PERSON
TRASH
TRUCK
Words and terms defined. As used in this article,
the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
The Board of Health, Marple Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Includes the township or its agent or contractor, or any
person, firm or corporation, or agent, employee or representative
thereof, engaged by the owner or occupant of any premises located
within the township for the purposes of collecting and disposing of
trash and garbage from such premises.
Includes offal, dead animals, decaying or putrid vegetable
or organic waste matter and all liquid substances derived therefrom.
Any natural person, association, partnership, firm or corporation,
and any agent, servant, employee or representative thereof.
Includes ashes, refuse, rubbish, tin cans, earth, stones,
metal parts, wood or other debris, etc., the disposal of which is
intended by the owner thereof.
[Amended 3-15-1984 by Ord. No. 84-7]
Includes any vehicle used for collection and transportation
of trash and garbage.
B.
In these rules and regulations, the singular shall
include the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine and
the neuter.
Trash and garbage may be placed temporarily
at a convenient site along the sidewalk, gutter, curb or roadway bordering
each property in the township for the purpose of collection and disposal
by a collector. When required by the collector, trash shall be separated
into combustible and noncombustible matter, in which case separate
containers shall be used for each type of trash. In no case shall
trash and garbage be stored in the same container.
[Amended 3-15-1984 by Ord. No. 84-7]
Trash shall be packed in containers of such
construction and of sufficient strength to prevent breakage of the
containers by weather, animals or upset. All containers shall be satisfactorily
closed or sealed to prevent scattering of the trash.
Garbage shall be placed in covered, watertight,
metal containers capable of holding, without leakage, all of the garbage
for collection and disposal.
Refuse and/or refuse receptacles of whatever
nature must not be placed at or along the sidewalk, gutter, curb or
roadway of Marple Township before sundown of the evening before the
day the trash is to be collected. All empty refuse receptacles of
whatever nature shall be removed from the collection site at or along
the sidewalk, gutter, curb or roadway before sunrise of the day following
the collection of refuse from any property.
Collection of all trash and garbage within the
township shall be performed only by those collectors approved by the
Board.
It shall be illegal for any person, other than
an approved collector, to open or disturb any trash or garbage set
out for collection for the purpose of removing all or any part of
the trash or garbage.
Collection of trash and garbage by the collector
shall be made in an inoffensive manner and in such fashion as to leave
the streets, roadways, sidewalks, gutters, curbs, etc., in a clean
and sanitary condition. Trash or garbage accidentally spilled or dropped
during collection shall be gathered and removed by the collector,
and appropriate measures taken by the collector so as to leave the
area in a clean and sanitary condition.
In the case of garbage containers and in the
case of trash containers which remain the property of the owner or
occupant of the premises from which collection is made, the collector
shall replace the covers or lids of such containers as have been emptied
so as to prevent access to the containers by flies, insects, animals,
etc., during such time as the empty containers are awaiting removal
by the owner or occupant of the premises.
Every person desiring to engage in the collection
and disposal of trash or garbage within this township shall first
register with the Board and pay an annual license fee as set from
time to time by resolution of the Board of Commissioners. Such license
fee shall not be required of persons authorized by lease or agreement
between such persons and Marple Township, dated September 12, 1956,
during such annual period for which the license fee under such lease
or agreement shall have been paid to the township. Registration of
such persons by the Board shall be made without license fee for the
balance of the period for which the fee has been paid to the township.
In addition to the annual license fee required by § 252-12 of these rules and regulations, each collector shall submit his truck or trucks to the Board for inspection to determine the satisfactory condition of each truck for the collection and transportation of trash and garbage in accordance with these rules and regulations. At the time of such inspection, the collector shall pay to the Board a license fee for each truck acceptable to the Board according to the schedule hereafter described. Such license fee shall cover an annual period; shall require renewal at the conclusion of such annual period; shall be issued only for a specific truck to be described in the license; and shall not be transferable to another truck by the license holder except with the written approval of the Board.
[Amended 6-9-1980 by Ord. No. 80-10; 9-11-1989 by Ord. No.
89-23; 3-14-1994 by Ord. No. 94-8]
The following schedule of annual truck license
fees shall be charged each collector:
Effective with the date of approval of these
rules and regulations by the Board of Commissioners of the township,
all trucks subsequently purchased, rented or placed in service by
any collector for the collection and transportation of trash or garbage
within this township shall be of an approved covered type. Such trucks
as are already in use by any collector for the collection and transportation
of trash and garbage within this township at the time these rules
and regulations are approved by the Board of Commissioners of the
township may, subject to inspection and licensing by the Board, be
continued in use until replaced by the collector, provided that within
one year from the date of approval of these rules and regulations
by the Board of Commissioners of the township, such trucks are equipped
with metal bodies or metal-lined bodies.
All trucks used for the collection and transportation
of trash and garbage within this township shall be maintained in a
sanitary manner at all times. At least once each week, each truck
shall be cleaned in such manner as is approved by the Board and shall
be sprayed or otherwise treated in a manner and with such chemical
agents as are approved by the Board for the purpose of preventing
fly, vermin and pathogenic bacterial infestation. All trucks shall
be subject to inspection by the Board at such intervals as the Board
deems necessary for the determination of compliance with the provisions
of this section.
Trucks used for the collection of trash and
garbage shall be so constructed and maintained in good repair so as
to prevent scattering, dropping, leaking or other loss of the trash
or garbage.
Garbage collected from each premises in the
township by the collector shall be transferred to metal, watertight
receptacles on the truck. Such receptacles shall be covered at all
times except during the introduction of garbage. Whenever necessary,
the contents of such receptacles shall be sprayed or treated with
a chemical agent approved by the Board, for the purpose of maintaining
the containers free of flies, etc. When emptied each day, the garbage
receptacles shall be cleaned thoroughly and treated to prevent infestation
with flies, vermin, etc. Such receptacles shall be subject to inspection
by the Board as prescribed for trucks.
Garbage and trash collected within the township
shall not be introduced into or disposed of in the township sewage
system.
No trash or garbage shall be burned in the township
except with the approval of the Board and in accordance with all other
township ordinances.
The township may, from time to time, with the
advice of the Board, designate certain areas of the township where
collectors may dispose of trash by burial. At such times, the township
shall authorize collectors by lease or agreement to use such disposal
areas subject to such regulations as the township shall establish
by such lease or agreement, and subject to the following limitations,
terms and conditions, to wit:
A.
No garbage shall be buried in the disposal areas.
B.
No trash shall be deposited in such disposal areas
if collected outside the limits of Marple Township.
C.
All trash shall be covered with clean dirt in the
following manner:
(1)
No trash shall be deposited to a depth greater than
eight feet in any one layer.
(2)
Each layer of trash shall be covered by a layer of
clean earth or fill not less than six inches in depth after compaction,
and not less frequently than once each calendar week.
(3)
The final layer of trash shall be covered with a layer
of clean earth or fill not less than two feet in depth after compaction.
(4)
The final layer of trash shall mean, for purposes
of these rules and regulations, such layer as either to bring the
deposit to grade with the immediately adjoining land or such lower
layer upon which it is intended to make no further deposits of trash,
or no deposits of trash have been made for a period of 30 days.
(5)
Immediately prior to each intermediate covering or
final covering of the trash with a layer of earth, the disposal area
shall be sprayed by a suitable chemical agent in such concentration
and quantity as the Board shall deem satisfactory to maintain the
disposal area free of infestation by flies, vermin and pathogenic
bacteria.
(6)
Approved extermination agencies shall be used to maintain
the disposal area in a rodent-free condition.
The keeping, collection and disposal of rubbish
and garbage shall also be governed by such other general sanitary
rules and regulations as have been heretofore or shall be hereafter
adopted.
[Amended 6-12-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-10]
Any person, firm or corporation who or which
shall violate any of the rules and regulations aforesaid shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000,
plus costs of prosecution, and in default of payment of such fine
and costs by imprisonment for not more than 30 days. It is hereby
declared that each refusal or neglect to comply with the terms of
these rules and regulations shall be considered as a separate violation
thereof, and notice to the offender by the Board of Health or the
township shall not be necessary in order to constitute an offense.
