[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Prospect Park 9-9-1939 as Ord. No. 534, approved 9-9-1939. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Littering — See Ch. 99.
No person, copartnership, corporation or unincorporated
association, either directly or indirectly by employing others, shall
throw, cast, drop, place or deposit, or cause to be thrown, cast,
dropped, placed or deposited, in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk
or other public place within the Borough of Prospect Park or in or
upon any porch, stoop, piazza, doorknob or yard of any house or other
structure along any of the streets, sidewalks or alleys within the Borough
or in any vehicle parked along any of the streets, sidewalks or alleys
within the Borough, any poster, circular, bill, handbill, paper or
other advertising matter of any kind or description or any wastepaper,
rubbish or discarded article of any kind; provided, however, that
nothing herein contained shall be held to apply to any newspaper,
periodical, advertisement, handbill or circular subscribed to by any
occupant of the structure at which it is left or which is contained
in any envelope addressed by name to any occupant of the structure
at which it is left.
Any person who shall violate any provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of not more than 300 and costs of such proceedings or, upon default
of payment of such fines and costs, by imprisonment in the county
jail for a term of not more than 30 days. The continuation of such
violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense,
and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
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Editor's Note: Amended 4-4-1977 by Ord. No.
948, approved 4-4-1977.
