This chapter shall be known as the "Vector Control Ordinance."
For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A detached structure which is not used or not intended to be used
for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located on or partially
on any premises.
BREEDING AREA
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for the birth
or hatching of vectors.
COLLECTION OF WATER
As considered in this chapter shall be held to be those 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, or other receptacles, containers, or devices of any kind,
which may hold water.
DISPOSAL
Includes 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
All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, or consumption of foods.
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 who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
A.
Shall have legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with
or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
B.
Shall have charge, care, or control of any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or an executor, administrator, trustee,
or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus representing
the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this chapter
and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent
as if he were the owner.
REFUSE
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage,
ashes, and rubbish.
RUBBISH
Includes glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood, or nonputrescible
solid wastes excluding, however, cut and stacked firewood and leaves.
VECTOR
A rodent, arthropod, 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.
A program plan and specifications for private vector control programs
may be required to be submitted to the municipality as deemed necessary by
the Board of Supervisors or such township official who may from time to time
be designated by the Board to administer this chapter. 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, it is found to be inadequate
or incomplete, additional information may be required as well as additional
control methods.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision(s) of
this chapter shall upon conviction before any District Justice be sentenced
to pay a fine not exceeding $300 plus the cost of prosecution. Each day's
violation shall constitute a separate offense. In default of the payment of
such fine and costs, said person shall undergo imprisonment for a period not
to exceed 30 days.
This chapter shall not repeal, except as specifically inconsistent therewith,
Ordinance No. 1970-1 of the Township of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, referred
to as the "Grass and Weed Ordinance" adopted May 11, 1970. This chapter shall repeal all ordinances or parts of ordinances
which conflict with the provisions of this chapter insofar and only insofar
as they are inconsistent with this chapter.
This chapter may be enforced by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Lancaster, or such township official who may from time to time be designated
to enforce this chapter, and who shall be endowed with police powers with
regard to the enforcement of this chapter.