[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Pennsbury 12-18-1989. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Pennsbury Township Refuse Ordinance."
All persons shall provide storage facilities for refuse to prevent the attraction, harborage or breeding of insects or rodents and to eliminate conditions harmful to the public health or which create safety hazards, odors, unsightliness and public nuisances.[1]
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Editor's Note: Storage of refusable materials shall be allowed to the extent of a verifiable rate of recovery, plus a reasonable supply for market or reuse. The rate of recovery may be verified by valid contractual arrangements or historical rates.
All refuse accumulated on any property in the township shall be collected, conveyed, and disposed of only at a landfill approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and operated by the Southeastern Chester County Refuse Authority.
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All refuse shall be transported in such a manner as to prevent public health, and safety hazards and nuisances.
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Collection personnel operating or otherwise assigned to collection vehicles shall be responsible for the immediate cleaning up and removal of refuse or garbage that may be spilled or scattered during the process of collection.
[Amended 2-22-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-1]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.
All persons shall comply with applicable laws, ordinances rules and regulations of Pennsbury Township and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating to the collection, transportation, storage or disposal of solid waste.