This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Old Forge Health and Sanitation Ordinance."
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following
words and phrases shall be construed throughout this chapter to have
the meanings hereto indicated:
BOROUGH
Old Forge Borough, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
PERSON
Includes any individual, partnership, association, firm or
corporation.
SCRAP, REFUSE AND JUNK ARTICLES
Any discarded material or article and shall include but not
be limited to scrap metal, machinery, iceboxes, freezers, dryers,
washing machines, stoves, household appliances, equipment, paper,
glass, containers, rags, used heating and plumbing supplies or materials,
used lumber, scrapped, abandoned or junked motor vehicles or unlicensed
motor vehicles. It shall not include refuse or garbage kept in a proper
container for the purpose of prompt disposal by the Borough garbage
collection system.
It is a matter of good common sense that it
is unhealthy and unsanitary to permit the maintenance in open spaces
of scrap, refuse and junk articles as they are breeding places for
rodents, flies and germs of all kinds, and they are also attractive
traps for children.
Any person who violates any provisions of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $600, and the cost of prosecution, or be sentenced
to jail for a period not to exceed 30 days, provided that each day's
violation of any provisions of this chapter shall constitute a separate
offense and that notice to the offender will not be necessary in order
to constitute an offense.