[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Radnor 12-22-1980 by Ord. No. 80-34 (Ch. 101 of the 1974
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The elimination of rodents or insects and other pest life
from any building, lot or premises through the use of traps, baiting,
fumigation or any other method of extermination approved by the Health
Officer, subject to applicable laws relating to poisonous substances
and fumigants.
Any condition which provides shelter or protection for rodents,
harmful insects or other pest life.
The owner or part owner of a building, lot or premises, whether
an individual, partnership or corporation or the agent or occupant
of a building, lot or premises or any other person who has the use
or custody of the same or any part thereof, whether an individual,
partnership or corporation.
The treatment or shielding with material impervious to rodent
gnawing of all actual potential openings in the exterior and interior
walls, ground or first floors, roofs, foundations, basements, sidewalk
grating and other places that may be reached by rodents from the ground
or by climbing or burrowing.
All buildings, lots or premises in this Township
shall be kept free from any condition conducive to rodents, insects
and other pest life. The person in control shall not allow the accumulation
of water, garbage, building material, brush, woodpiles or any other
material which may afford harborage or provide food for rodents, harmful
insects or other pest life. All garbage shall be wrapped. Garbage
and waste material shall be placed in approved watertight containers
with tight-fitting lids and stored in such a manner as not to create
an attraction or harborage for rodents, harmful insects or other pest
life.
A.Â
When any building, lot or premises is subject to infestation
by rodents, harmful insects or other pest life, the person in control
shall apply continuous or repeated eradication measures, as required
by the Health Officer, until there is no evidence of an infestation
remaining.
B.Â
No building shall be demolished until the Health Officer
informs the Department of Community Development that the building
and premises are free from the infestation of rodents, harmful insects
or other pest life.
C.Â
The Health Officer may, in his/her discretion, order
the person in control of any inland swamp, pond, creek, lake, pool,
sunken lot, quarry or abandoned excavation or any other place where
stagnant water may collect to fill in or drain the same or to employ
other methods to prevent the breeding of harmful insects and other
pest life.
A.Â
Whenever conditions inside, outside or under any building
or buildings or on any lot or premises provide harborage for rats,
the Health Officer may require all or any one or more buildings or
premises to be rodentproofed and harborages removed.
B.Â
The person in control of a building or premises required
to be rodentproofed shall maintain the rodentproofing in good repair.
No person shall injure the rodentproofing. When the rodentproofing
is injured in the course of making alterations, installations, additions
or repairs to the building, the person in control shall restore the
rodentproofing in good condition.
C.Â
No person shall undertake to remodel or alter any
existing building or portion thereof for the purpose of rodentproofing
without first submitting plans for approval to the Community Development
Department.
[Amended 7-20-1992 by Ord. No. 92-13]
[Amended 11-28-1988 by Ord. No. 88-32; 7-20-1992 by Ord. No. 92-13]
Any person violating any provisions of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof by a District Justice, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution,
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment
in the county jail for a term not exceeding 30 days.
