The following words and phrases, when used in
this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section,
except where the context or language clearly indicates or requires
a different meaning:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A detached structure which is not used or not intended to
be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located
on or partially on any premises.
BREEDING AREA
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
COLLECTION OF WATER
Water contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations,
holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns,
tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles,
tubs, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels,
receptacles of any kind or other containers or devices which may hold
water.
DISPOSAL
Includes the storage, collection, disposal or handling of
refuse.
DWELLING
A building or structure used for residential purposes.
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms in a dwelling, which room or rooms have
fixed cooking facilities arranged for occupancy by one person, two
or more persons living together or one family.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their
harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that
may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging
larviciding or trapping; or by any other recognized and legal vector
control elimination methods approved by the local or state authority
having such administrative authority.
GARBAGE
All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking or consumption of foods.
HARBORAGE
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
OCCUPANT
Any person, over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking
or eating in or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a
rooming unit, except that in dwelling units a guest will not be considered
an occupant.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
A.
Has legal title to any premises, dwelling or
dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof;
or
B.
Has charge, care or control of any premises,
dwelling or dwelling unit as owner or agent of the owner or an executor,
administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any
such person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply
with the provisions of this chapter and of the rules and regulations
adopted pursuant thereto to the same extent as if he were the owner.
PERSON
Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
REFUSE
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage,
ashes and rubbish.
RUBBISH
Includes glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible
solid wastes.
TOWNSHIP OF LOWER ALLEN
The Board of Commissioners of the Township of Lower Allen,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
VECTOR
A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease
or infection. Vectors shall include but not be limited to rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies, ticks, etc.
VECTORPROOFING
A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of
vectors to or from a given space or building or from gaining access
to food, water or harborage. This term shall include but not be limited
to ratproofing, flyproofing, mosquitoproofing, etc.
A program plan and specifications for private
vector control programs may be required to be submitted to the Township
as deemed necessary by the Vector Control Office. The program plan
shall be submitted by the owner or agent of the property on or in
which the vector control program is or will be conducted. The program
plan shall be submitted by the owner or agent of the property on or
in which the vector control program is or will be conducted. The program
plan shall state the type of vectors to be controlled, the name of
the company contracted to carry out the program and any and all work
to be conducted in an effort to control the vectors. If, after review
of the program plan by the Vector Control Officer, it is found to
be inadequate or incomplete, additional information may be required,
as well as additional control methods.
[Amended 11-10-1997 by Ord. No. 97-16; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation
of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding under
the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary
offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000,
plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Township
in the enforcement proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by
summary conviction, or by proceedings by summons on default of the
payment of the fine or penalty imposed and the costs, the defendant
may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days.
Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense,
and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute
a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement under
this section, the Township may enforce this chapter in equity in the
Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County.