For the purposes of this Article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PUBLIC OR COMMON NUISANCE
That which is set up, maintained or continued so as to be
injurious to the health or an obstruction to the use of property by
interfering with the repose, health, safety or life of the public.
WATERS OF THE STATE
Includes all streams and springs and all bodies of surface
and of ground water, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries
of the state.
No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained
any privy vault, cesspool, well, cistern or other receptacle containing
water in such a condition that mosquitoes may breed therein.
No person, partnership, firm or corporation
maintaining a slaughterhouse, rendering works, dye works, dairy, creamery,
cheese factory, milk station or similar establishment shall allow
any noxious exhalation, odors or gases that are deleterious or detrimental
to public health to escape into the air or any substance that is deleterious
or detrimental to public health to accumulate upon the premises or
be thrown or allowed to discharge into any street, roadway or public
place or be thrown or allowed to discharge into any stream or other
waters of the state.
No owner, partnership, firm or corporation shall
permit any cellar vault, cellar door or other excavation, material
excavated or obstruction on or adjoining any street, alley or sidewalk
within this borough to remain open or exposed without having same
secured by a temporary fence or covering or by putting up a danger
signal consisting of a red light between sunset and sunrise.
It shall be unlawful to keep or suffer to remain
on the premises owned or occupied or used by any person, firm or corporation
any decaying or offensive or unwholesome matter of any kind or to
dump or throw any ashes, tin cans or rubbish or to place material
of any sort on any such premises so that the placing of the same may
become injurious to health or become a harboring or breeding place
for rats or to permit the same or any of the above on any vacant lot
or in any stream or highway adjoining any such premises.
[Amended 8-26-1991 by Ord. No. 413]
Any person, partnership, firm or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction
thereof before any District Justice, be subject to a fine of not more
than $600 for each offense, and, in default of the payment of said
fine and costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned for a period not
exceeding 30 days.