[Ord. 1985-1, 2/13/1985]
As used in this Part, terms shall have the meanings indicated,
unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
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
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.
COVERED RECEPTACLE
A container of metal, wood, heavy-duty plastic or synthetic
material of solid construction, with a tight-fitting cover secured
against wind and leakage.
DER
Department of Environmental Resources, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DISPOSAL
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 food.
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; in dwelling units a guest will not be considered an
occupant.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others
shall have:
1.
Legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with
or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
2.
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 ordinance and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant
thereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner.
PERSON
Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.
REFUSE
All solid wastes, except human body wastes, and including
handling of refuse.
RUBBISH
Glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood, or nonputrescible
solid wastes.
VECTOR
A rodent, arthropod, or insect capable of transmitting a
disease or infection, including but not limited to rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies and ticks.
VECTORPROOFING
A form of construction to prevent ingress or egress of vectors
to or from a given space or building or gaining access to food, water,
or harborage, including, but not limited to, rat-proofing, fly-proofing
and mosquito-proofing.
[Ord. 1985-1, 2/13/1985]
A program plan and specifications for private vector control
programs shall be required to be submitted by the owner to the Township
upon determination of the necessity by the Vector Control Program
Director. Said determination shall be served on the owner personally
or by certified mail. Within 10 days of said service the owner may
contest the necessity of the program by requesting a hearing to be
conducted in accordance with § 204 of this Part. Said program
plan shall be submitted by the owner to the Board of Supervisors within
10 days of notice. The program plan shall state the type of vectors
to be controlled, the name of the company contracted to carry out
the program, if any, and any and all work to be conducted in an effort
to control said vectors. The Vector Control Program Director shall
review the program plan, and if the plan is found to be inadequate
or incomplete, additional information may be required as well as additional
control methods. The owner may request a hearing on the Director's
determination in accordance with § 204 of this Part.
[Ord. 1985-1, 2/13/1985; as amended by Ord. 97-3, 11/12/1997]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and,
in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.