[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Lewisburg 10-27-1971 by Ord. No. 624. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following
terms, phrases, words, and their derivations have the meanings given
herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the
present tense include the future, words used in the plural include
the singular, and words used in the singular include the plural. The
word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. Specific
terms are as follows:
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food.
Person, individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company,
society, association, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof,
and the penal provisions may apply to any one or all of the parties
designated.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes such as garbage,
ashes, petroleum products, including gasoline, kerosene, oil, grease,
and the like, whether new or used, street cleanings, dead animals,
and industrial wastes.
All nonputrescible solid wastes, such as barrels, bedding,
cans, cardboard, paper, leaves, car bodies, crockery, drums, glass,
grass cuttings, metal, rags, rubber, sawdust, trees, tree stumps,
weeds, wire, wood scraps, and similar material.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, suffer,
or allow the open-fire burning of any refuse, rubbish, or garbage,
from which the products of combustion are discharged into the open
air.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause, suffer,
or allow the burning or incineration of any refuse, rubbish or garbage
using a backyard type burner; specifically the use of cans, drums,
wire containers, or incinerators is prohibited.
[Amended 4-17-2012 by Ord. No. 1014]
This chapter shall not apply to open fires,
barbecues or other domestic open combustion areas used solely for
the cooking of consumable foods, nor to any training activities of
the Lewisburg Fire Companies or Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department,
or to other organizations dedicated to the public good, where open
fires or incineration shall be an integral part of their training
or effective purposes.
It is unlawful for any person to construct,
install, alter, or replace any article, machine, device, equipment
or other contrivance or facility capable of incineration or permitting
the emission of air contaminants into the atmosphere until a Certificate
of Registration has been obtained from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Department of Environmental Resources, and such certifications shall
be registered with the Office of the Borough Secretary prior to the
effective date of operation thereof.
[Amended 10-20-1987 by Ord. No. 833]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $300, and/or to imprisonment for a
term not to exceed 90 days. Every day that a violation of this chapter
continues shall constitute a separate offense.
