As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ERADICATION
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 Board of Health and subject
to applicable laws relating to poisonous substances and fumigants.
HARBORAGE
Any condition which provides shelter or protection for rodents, insects
or other pest life.
PERSON IN CONTROL
The owner or part owner of a building, lot or premises, whether an
individual, partnership or corporation, the agent or occupant of a building,
lot or premises or any other person who has the use or custody of the same
or part thereof, whether an individual, partnership or corporation.
RODENTPROOFING
The treatment or shielding, with material impervious to rodent gnawing,
of all actual or potential openings in the exterior and interior of walls,
ground or first floors, roofs, foundations, basements, sidewalk gratings and
other places that may be reached by rodents from the ground or by climbing
or burrowing.
All buildings, lots or premises in this borough 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 trash, water, garbage, building
material, brush, woodpiles or any other material which may afford harborage
or provide food for rodents, insects or other pest life.
All garbage and waste material shall be placed in nonleaking metal containers
with tight-fitting lids and shall be stored in such a manner as not to create
an attraction or harborage for rodents, insects or other pest life.
Every person who does not comply with any order or regulation of the
Board of Health or who resists or interferes with any officer or agent thereof
in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a violation of the same
and, upon conviction thereof before a District Justice in a summary proceeding,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than thirty dollars ($30.) and
costs and not more than six hundred dollars ($600.), payable to the Borough
of Norristown, and in default of the payment of such fines, to imprisonment
of not more than thirty (30) days. Each day any violation continues shall
constitute a separate offense.