For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
WATERS OF THE STATE
Includes all streams and springs and all bodies of surface water
and of ground water, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries
of the state.
No kitchen or laundry water shall be discharged or be permitted to discharge
or flow into any gutter, street, roadway or public place.
When kitchen or laundry wastewater is disposed of by throwing onto the
surface of the ground, borax, unslaked lime, hypochlorite of lime or other
approved disinfectant and deodorant shall be applied thereto in a sufficient
quantity to prevent offensive odors and the breeding of flies.
No garbage, pomace, offal, dead animals, cans, rubbish, decaying matter
or organic waste substance of any kind shall be thrown or deposited in any
ravine, ditch or gutter, on any street or highway or into any waters of the
state or be permitted to remain exposed upon the surface of the ground.
All marshes or swamps and all pools or ponds, either natural or artificial,
shall be maintained by the owners free from the breeding of mosquitoes. If
treatment is required to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes, it shall be accomplished
by filling, draining, stocking with larvae-eating fish, treating with larvacide
or mineral oil or by some other method approved by the Board of Health.
No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained any privy vault,
cesspool, well, cistern, rain barrel or other receptacle containing water
in such a condition that mosquitoes may breed therein.
No pigsty or piggery shall be built or maintained on marshy ground or
land subject to overflow nor within 300 feet of any stream or other source
of water supply nor within 300 feet of an inhabited house or public meeting
house on an adjoining property. When garbage is fed to pigs, provision shall
be made so that all unconsumed garbage shall be removed daily and disposed
of by burial or incineration. No organic material furnishing food for flies
shall be allowed to accumulate on the premises. All garbage shall be handled
and fed upon platforms of concrete or other impervious material. Unslaked
lime, hypochlorite of lime, borax or mineral oil shall be used daily in sufficient
quantities to prevent offensive odors and the breeding of flies.
No owner or occupant of any premises shall maintain any well, spring,
cistern or other source of water supply used for drinking or household purposes
and to which the public has or may have access and which is polluted or which
is so situated or constructed that it may become polluted in any manner that
may render such water supply injurious to health.
[Added 8-31-1987 by Ord. No. 943]
Any person violating any provision of this chapter, upon conviction
before the District Justice, shall be guilty of a summary offense and shall
be subject to pay a fine not to exceed the maximum fine of $300, plus costs
of prosecution, or to undergo imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both. Each day that such violation continues shall constitute a separate
offense.