[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Wilson 5-22-1972 by Ord. No. 482, approved 5-22-1972. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Board of Health of Wilson Borough or any officer or authorized
representative thereof.
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.
Any condition which provides shelter or protection for rodents,
insects or other pest life.
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 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 or potential openings in the exterior and interior
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.
A.
All buildings, lots or premises within the corporate
limits of Wilson Borough shall be kept free from any condition conducive
to rodent, insect and other pest life. The person in control shall
not allow the accumulation of automobiles or trucks without current
license plates or a current inspection sticker, garbage, refuse or
any material which may afford harborage or provide food for rodents,
insects or other pest life.
B.
Whenever conditions inside or under unoccupied buildings
provide extensive harborage for rats, the Health Officer is empowered,
if said conditions are not corrected within a period of 60 days after
written notification to the owner, to institute condemnation and demolition
proceedings. The cost of such proceedings is to be borne by the owner.
A.
No person in control shall feed wild birds other than
in suitable, properly shielded containers for the food, installed
in such a manner as to be inaccessible to rodents and to prevent the
scattering of food on the ground.
B.
No person shall place food in the open for feeding
any animal except in a container which will prevent the scattering
of food upon the ground. Unconsumed food shall not be allowed to remain
where it is accessible to rodents, insects or other pest life.
C.
Garbage and waste material shall be placed in nonleaking
containers made of metal, plastic or other durable material, with
tight-fitting lids and stored in such a manner as not to create an
attraction or harborage for rodents, insects or other pest life.
[Amended 1-22-1996 by Ord. No. 654, approved 1-22-1996]
D.
When the Health Officer notifies the occupant or occupants
of a building in writing that there is evidence of rat infestation
on the premises, the said occupant or occupants shall immediately
institute rat-eradication measures and shall continuously maintain
such measures in a satisfactory manner until the premises is declared
by the Health Officer to be free of rat infestation. Unless said measures
are undertaken within five days after receipt of notice, it shall
be construed as a violation of the provisions of this chapter and
the occupant shall be held responsible therefor.
A.
When any building, lot or premises is subject to infestation
by rodents, insects or other pest life, the person in control shall
apply continuous or repeated eradication measures, as required by
the Board of Health, until there is no evidence of infestation remaining.
B.
No building shall be demolished until the Board of
Health certifies to the Borough of Wilson that the building and premises
are free from the infestation of rodents, insects or other pest life.
A.
Whenever conditions inside, outside or under a building
or on any lot or premises provide harborage for rodents, the Board
of Health may require any one or more buildings to be rodentproofed.
B.
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 making alterations, installations, additions or repairs
to the building, the person in control shall restore the rodentproofing
in good condition.
[Amended 1-22-1996 by Ord. No. 654, approved 1-22-1996 ]
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable for each
offense by a fine of not more than $300 and costs of prosecution or,
upon default in payment of the fine and costs, by imprisonment in
the county jail for a period not to exceed 30 days, and each day of
the continuance of a violation shall be deemed to constitute a separate
offense.
