[Adopted 9-19-1979 by Ord.
No. 559]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
COMMERCIAL PLACE
Any store or building or group thereof, including shopping centers,
shopping plazas and other similar places wherein mercantile activities and
services are offered to the public, and includes all parking areas thereat.
GARBAGE
Putrescible, animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish, as defined herein, and all other waste
material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited, tends to create
a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
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 includes any yard,
grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant
to such dwelling, house, building or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public
ways, and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings
owned and/or operated by any public agency.
REFUSE
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes (except body wastes),
including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals, abandoned
automobiles and solid market and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible
wastes, such as yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery and
similar materials.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
For the control of litter in public places, the following regulations
shall be applicable:
A. No person shall deposit or throw litter in or upon any
street, sidewalk or other public place within the Borough except in public
or private receptacles for collection.
B. Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in private
receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being carried
or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place
or upon private property.
C. No person shall sweep or deposit in any gutter, street
or other public place within the Borough the accumulation of litter from any
building or litter from any public sidewalk or driveway.
D. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk
in front of their premises free of litter.
E. The owner or person in control of any public property
shall at all times maintain the premises free from litter; provided, however,
that this subsection shall not prohibit the storage of litter in private receptacles
for collection.
For the control of litter thrown from vehicles, the following regulations
shall apply:
A. No person while a driver or passenger in a vehicle shall
throw or deposit litter upon any street or public place within the Borough
or upon private property.
B. No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle
within the Borough unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent
any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any street,
alley or other public place; nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle
or truck within the Borough, the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit
in any street, alley or other public place any mud, dirt, sticky substance,
litter or foreign matter of any kind.
For the control of litter in parks and bodies of water, the following
regulations shall apply:
A. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any public
park or playground within the Borough except in public receptacles and in
such a manner that the litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited
by the elements upon any part of the park or playground 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 playground by the person responsible
for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere as provided herein.
B. No person shall throw or deposit litter in any stream
or other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the Borough.
For the control of litter on private property and commercial premises,
the following regulations shall apply:
A. No person shall throw or deposit litter on any occupied
private property or commercial place within the Borough regardless of whether
the property is owned by such person or not, except that the owner or person
in control of such private property or commercial place may maintain private
receptacles for collection in such manner that litter will be prevented from
being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street or other public
place or upon any private property.
B. Each owner or person in control of any commercial place,
including shopping centers and delivery and parking areas thereat, shall keep
said place, parking fields, parking areas, delivery areas and other open areas
which are a part of such commercial place free from litter.
C. The owner or person in control of any private property
shall at all times maintain the premises free from litter; provided, however,
that this section shall not prohibit the storage of litter in private receptacles
for collection.
D. No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or
vacant private property within the Borough, whether owned by such person or
not.
The Borough Secretary of the Borough of Pleasant Hills is hereby authorized
and empowered to notify the owner, tenant or person in control of any private
property or commercial place within the Borough whenever any accumulation
of litter is found to exist. Such notice shall be delivered by hand or mailed
by certified mail to the owner of the premises or the person in control of
the premises directing that the violation be remedied within a period of 24
hours after receipt of notice. If the owner or the person in control of the
premises shall fail to remedy the violation within the twenty-four-hour period,
the Borough Secretary of Pleasant Hills is authorized to proceed to have the
violation corrected and to charge the costs thereof against the property and
if such charge is not paid within 30 days, to file a lien in the office of
the Prothonotary of Allegheny County. The right to file a lien shall be at
the option of the Borough Council of the Borough of Pleasant Hills and shall
be in addition to the penalty provisions contained in this article.
[Adopted 3-18-2002 by Ord.
No. 803]
No person shall within the Borough of Pleasant Hills distribute or cause
to be distributed handbills or other advertising material at buildings, houses,
dwellings, stores or other structures other than by placing such material
inside screen doors or in the jambs of doors or securely affixing the material
to exterior door handles.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill/advertising
material in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously
uninhabited or vacant.
No person shall throw, distribute or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill or advertising material upon any private premises if requested by
anyone thereon not to do so or if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous
position a sign bearing the words "no trespassing" or "no handbills" or any
similar notice indicating in any manner that the owner or occupant of such
premises desires not to have such material left upon said premises.
No person shall throw, distribute or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill or advertising material in or upon private premises which are inhabited
except by handing the material to the occupant/owner of the premises or by
placing the material inside screen doors, in the jambs of doors or securely
affixing the material to the exterior door handle. In all such cases, it shall
be the responsibility of the individual distributing the material to prevent
such material from being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks,
driveways, streets or other places except that mailboxes may not be so used
for the holding or deposit of such material. Under no circumstances shall
advertising material/handbills be distributed by being thrown from a vehicle
or thrown in any manner. The provisions of this section shall not apply to
the distribution of mail by the United States Postal Service or the distribution
of newspapers.
Any person, organization or corporation who shall be found guilty of
violating any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine
not exceeding the sum of $300. Each and every day that a violation of this
article shall occur shall be considered to be a separate offense punishable
by the fine as prescribed herein.
Any ordinance or parts of ordinances conflicting with the provisions of this article shall be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict only. This article is to be read in conjunction with Article
I, Litter Control, of this Chapter
234, and this article does not repeal those sections of Article
I, Litter Control, which are not in conflict with the terms of this article.