[Adopted 2-5-1957 by Ord. No. 6]
As used in this article the following words
shall have the meanings indicated.
Includes coal ashes, coke ashes, wood ashes and ashes resulting
from other fuels and for cooking and heating purposes.
Consists of all vegetable and animal waste, including offal,
carcasses, fat, bone, swill and animal and vegetable matter, or other
organic substance, subject to fermentation or decay, resulting from
the storage, handling, consumption and preparation of food. It shall
not contain dishwater or other soapy water.
An individual or individuals, company, partnership, firm,
association, corporation, or municipality other than the Township
of Raccoon, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
Consists of mixed and waste fragments resultant from the
use of household necessities, including but not limited to glass,
china, metal, tin, wood, leather, rubber, carpeting, prunings from
vines and shrubbery, and other foreign matter, but excepting ashes
and garbage.
A.Â
No person shall dump, deposit or accumulate ashes,
rubbish, garbage or other refuse materials within the Township of
Raccoon, Beaver County Pennsylvania.
B.Â
No person shall use or permit to be used any spot
or place within the Township of Raccoon as a public or private dump
for garbage, ashes, rubbish or other refuse.
A.Â
Nothing in this article will be construed to prevent
or prohibit any person engaged in the business of farming from maintaining
a manure pile upon which may be thrown garbage originating on such
farm, or from disposing of any ashes or rubbish originating on such
farm on land occupied by him so long as it is at least 50 feet from
the center line of any public highway, road, street or land and so
long as a nuisance does not result therefrom.
B.Â
Nothing in this article shall prevent or prohibit
any person from burying garbage on land owned by him in a pit or trench
dug for that purpose, provided that such garbage was originated, manufactured
or produced on such land and provided, further, that the garbage is
immediately covered with a layer of dirt so that it does not become
offensive or a nuisance.
C.Â
Nothing in this article shall prevent any person from
building or maintaining a compost pile, consisting of lawn, hedge
and shrubbery clippings, leaves, weeds and soil.
