It shall be unlawful for any person to create,
continue, cause, maintain or permit to exist any nuisance at any place
within the Township.
Any person who creates, continues, causes, maintains or permits to exist any nuisance at any place within the Township shall, within 10 days after notice from the Board of Commissioners to do so, remove or abate that nuisance. If that person fails, neglects or refuses to abate the nuisance within the time limit, the Board of Commissioners shall have authority, in person or by its agents and/or employees, to remove or abate the nuisance and, in so doing, shall have authority to enter upon the property of the person in default. Thereupon, the Board of Commissioners shall collect the cost and expense of the abatement or removal from the person who created, continued, caused or maintained the nuisance and/or permitted it to exist, that person having failed, neglected or refused to remove or abate the nuisance, with an additional amount of 10%, in the manner provided for the collection of municipal claims or by an action in assumpsit. The cost and expense may be in addition to any penalty imposed under §
124-4.
Any person who violates any provision of this
chapter shall, for every such violation, upon conviction, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000 and costs
of prosecution and, in default of payment of fine and costs, to undergo
imprisonment for not more than 30 days.
This chapter shall not be construed to be the
sole means for abatement of nuisances within the Township, and nothing
shall preclude any person from proceeding individually or with other
injured persons to effect the abatement of a private nuisance. Furthermore,
in the exercise of the powers conferred in this chapter, the Township
may institute proceedings in equity.