[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Eddystone during codification 3-10-1975 by Ord. No. 439. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Brush, grass and weeds — See Ch.
81.
Handbills and posters — See Ch.
162.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch.
218.
Solid waste — See Ch.
251.
Litter from vehicles — See Ch.
256, Art.
V.
A. Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in
the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number
include the singular number and words used in the singular number
include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and
not merely directory.
B. Terms defined. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
GARBAGE
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the
handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
LITTER
Garbage, refuse and rubbish as defined herein, and all other
waste material which, if thrown, deposited or stored as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any dwelling house, building or other structure designed
or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes,
whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant,
and includes any yard, ground, walk, driveway, porch, steps or vestibule
belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling house, building or other
structure.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any street, sidewalk, alley or other public way and any and
all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
PUBLIC STRUCTURE OR BUILDING
Any structure or building owned or operated by the federal,
county or state government or any governmental agency.
REFUSE
All putrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including
garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and solid
market and industrial wastes.
RUBBISH
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and noncombustible wastes, such as papers, wrappings, cigarettes,
cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding,
crockery, building materials and similar materials.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street,
sidewalk or other public place within the Borough except in public
receptacles or in authorized private receptacles for collection; provided,
however, that said public receptacles shall not be used by persons
owning or occupying property in the vicinity of said public receptacles
for the deposit of domestic, commercial and industrial litter arising
from the conduct of said activities.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized
private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it
from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street
or other public place within the Borough the accumulation of litter
from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or
driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk
in front of their premises free of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep
into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within
the Borough any accumulation of litter, and all persons owning or
occupying places of business within the Borough shall keep the sidewalk
in front of their business premises free of litter.
No person while a driver or passenger in a vehicle shall throw
or deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the
Borough.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within
the Borough unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to
prevent any load or contents of litter from being blown or deposited
upon any street, alley or other public place; nor shall any person
drive or move any vehicle or truck within the Borough, the wheels
or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any street, alley or other
public place mud, dirt, sticky substances or foreign matter of any
kind.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond,
lake, stream, bay or any other body of water in a park or elsewhere
within the Borough.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within
the Borough; nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any
commercial handbill in any public place; provided, however, that it
shall not be unlawful on any sidewalk, street or other public place
within the Borough for any person to hand out or distribute, without
charge to the receiver thereof, any noncommercial handbill to any
person willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill in or upon any vehicle; provided, however, that it shall
not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute,
without charge to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to
any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial
handbill in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or
continuously uninhabited or vacant.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial
or noncommercial handbill upon any private premises if requested by
anyone thereon not to do so or if there is placed on said premises
in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof a sign bearing
the words "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisements" or any similar
notice indicating in any manner that the occupants of said premises
do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed
or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
No person in any aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within
the Borough any litter, handbill or any other object.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper
or device, calculated to attract the attention of the public, to any
lamppost, public utility pole or shade tree or upon any public structure
or building, except as may be authorized by the owners thereof or
required by law.
No person shall throw, deposit or store litter on any occupied
private property within the Borough, whether owned by such person
or not, except that the owner or person in control of private property
may maintain authorized private receptacles for collection and removal
of the same in such manner that the same shall not be unsightly and
detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter, particularly one
or more automobile bodies, frames or chassis, one or more automobiles
unable to be self-propelled or one or more abandoned automobiles;
provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the storage
of litter in authorized private receptacles for collection.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant
private property within the Borough, whether owned by such person
or not.
[Amended 1-9-1989 by Ord. No. 524, approved 1-9-1989]
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any of the
provisions of this chapter before any District Justice shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution and,
in default thereof, to imprisonment in the county jail for a term
not to exceed 30 days.