As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A structure subordinate to the main building located on a lot, used
for purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building. Accessory
structures include, but are not limited to, buildings, private storage sheds
and private swimming pools.
BREEDING AREA
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for the birth
or hatching of vectors.
COLLECTION OF WATER
Contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations, holes,
depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow
wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, roof gutters,
tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels, receptacles of any kind or other
containers or devices which may hold water.
DISPOSAL
The storage, collection, disposal or handling of refuse.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their harborage
places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their
food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging, larviciding, trapping or
by any other recognized and legal vector control elimination methods approved
by the local or state authority having such administrative authority.
GARBAGE
The animal and vegetable waste resulting from the storage, handling,
preparation and consumption of food. It shall not include more than a minimal
amount of free liquid(s).
HARBORAGE
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
OCCUPANT
Any person over one year of age living, sleeping, cooking or eating
in, or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a rooming unit, except
that in dwelling units a guest will not be considered an occupant.
OWNER
Any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial,
of any improved property.
REFUSE
Garbage, ashes and rubbish.
RUBBISH
All waste materials not included in garbage or ashes, except rubbish
from building construction or reconstruction, grass clippings, street refuse,
industrial refuse, abandoned large machinery or vehicles, dead animals, infectious
waste (as defined in 25 Pa. Code § 271.1) or such other waste materials
as are not commonly produced in homes, stores or institutions.
VECTOR
A rodent, anthropoid or insect capable of transmitting a disease
or infection. Vectors shall include, but not be limited to, rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies, ticks, etc.
VECTOR PROOFING
A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of vectors
to or from a given space or building or gaining access to food, water or harborage.
This term shall include, but not be limited to, rat proofing, fly proofing,
mosquito proofing, etc.
Owners and occupants shall have the following responsibilities:
A. Every owner of a dwelling containing two or more dwelling
units shall maintain in a clean and sanitary condition the shared or public
areas of the dwelling and premises thereof.
B. Every occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit shall maintain
in a clean and sanitary condition that part or those parts of the dwelling,
dwelling unit and premises thereof that he occupies and controls.
C. Every occupant of a dwelling containing a single dwelling
unit shall be responsible for the extermination of insects and/or rodents
on the premises; and every occupant of a dwelling unit in a dwelling containing
more than one dwelling unit shall be responsible for such extermination whenever
his dwelling unit is the only one infested. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this subsection, whenever infestation is caused by failure of
the owner to maintain a dwelling in a rodentproof or reasonably insectproof
condition, extermination shall be the responsibility of the owner. Whenever
infestation exists in two or more of the dwelling units in any dwelling or
in the shared or public parts of any dwelling containing two or more dwelling
units, extermination shall be the responsibility of the owner.
Any dwelling, building, structure, accessory structure, premise or any
other place may be required to be vector proofed when found to be providing
harborage or breeding areas for rats, flies, mosquitoes, or any other vectors.
It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, contractor, public utility company,
plumber or any other person to remove and fail to restore in like condition
the vector proofing from any building, structure or accessory structure, for
any purpose.
A program planned and specifications for private vector control programs
may be required to be submitted to this Borough as deemed necessary by the
Vector Control Officer. Said program plan shall be submitted by the owner
or agent of the property on or in which said vector control program is or
will be conducted. The program plan shall state the type of vectors to be
controlled, the name of the company contracted to carry out the program, and
any and all work to be conducted in an effort to control said vectors. If,
after review of the program plan by the Vector Control Officer, it is found
to be inadequate or incomplete, additional information may be required as
well as additional control methods.
The Borough Council of this Borough, by resolution duly adopted, may
establish rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
Such rules and regulations shall become effective upon adoption of the resolution,
unless another effective date is specified in the resolution.
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 $600 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation
of this chapter continues shall constitute a separate offense.