[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 1]
For the purpose of this Part 3, the following words shall have
the following meaning:
Is putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from
the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
"Garbage," "refuse," and "rubbish" as defined herein, and
all other waste material which, if thrown or deposited as herein prohibited,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare and
to interfere with and impair the cleanliness, beauty, convenience
and comfort of the Township and the inhabitants thereof.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other
public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds
and buildings.
All putrescible and nonputrescible solid wastes, except body
wastes, including garbage, rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead
animals, abandoned automobiles, and solid market and industrial wastes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible
and non-combustible wastes, such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes,
cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, bedding,
crockery and similar materials.
Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices
used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 2]
No person shall sweep, throw or deposit litter in or upon any
occupied, open or vacant property, whether owned by such person or
not, or in or upon any street, sidewalk, park or other public place,
or any pond, lake, stream or any other body of water within West Norriton
Township, except in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles
for collection, or in official Township dumps. Persons placing litter
in public receptacles or in authorized private receptacles shall do
so in such manner as to prevent it from being carried or deposited
by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place, or
upon private property. No person shall use a public litter receptacle
or the private litter receptacle of another to dispose of their domestic
or business generated litter or litter of a type or quantity normally
associated with business or domestic origin.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 3]
No person, including merchants owning or occupying a place of
business, shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other
public place within the Township of West Norriton the accumulation
of litter from any building or lot, or from any public or private
sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep
the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 4]
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw
or deposit litter upon any street or other public place within the
Township, or upon private property.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 5]
No person shall drive any truck or other vehicle within the
Township unless the vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent
any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any
street, alley or other public place; nor shall any person drive any
vehicle or truck within the Township, the wheels or tires of which
carry onto or deposit in any street, alley or other public place,
mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign matter of any kind.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 6]
No person shall bring, cart, remove, transport or collect any
litter from outside this Township, or into this Township, for the
purpose of dumping or disposing of it unless authorized to do so by
the Township.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 7]
The owner or person in control of any private property shall
at all times maintain the premises free of litter; provided, however,
that this Part 3 shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized
private receptacles for collection.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 8]
The Commissioners of West Norriton Township, their agents or
employees, are authorized and empowered to notify the owner of any
open or vacant private property within the Township, or the agent
of the owner, to properly dispose of litter on the owner's property
which is dangerous to public health, safety or welfare, or which interferes
with and impairs the cleanliness, beauty, convenience and comfort
of the Township and the inhabitants thereof. The notice shall be by
registered mail, addressed to the owner at his last known address,
and shall state the acts to be performed by the owner or tenant, as
well as the penalty for failure to comply with the notice.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 9]
If the owner or tenant to which notice is sent neglects or refuses
to comply with the notice within 10 days of receipt of same, the enforcing
authority shall arrange to perform the acts required by the notice
at the cost of the Township Commissioners. The expense of removal
shall be paid by the owner or occupant and shall be a lien upon the
land for which a lien may be filed by the Township Commissioners,
in the name of the Township, in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery
County within six months from the date of completion of the work abatement,
subject to the same proceedings for entry and revival of judgment
and execution as are provided by law for other municipal liens. The
Commissioners may also maintain an action against such owner or occupant
in the name of the Township, to recover the amount of such expense
in the same way as debts of the like amount are by law recoverable
and the same when recovered either by enforcement of lien or by personal
action shall be paid to the Township Treasurer to be held and used
for Township purposes.
[Ord. 343, 5/21/1968, § 10; as amended by Ord.
524, 12/31/1991]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Part 3 shall
forfeit and pay a fine or penalty of not more than $600 to West Norriton
Township the same to be collected by a proceeding before a District
Justice in the Township or recovered as debts of like amount are now
by law recoverable, and in default of the payment for such fine and
costs shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than 30 days in
the Montgomery County Prison.
