As used in this article, the following 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.
DEP
Department of Environmental Protection, 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, including
any motor vehicle in a state of disrepair that has not been moved
in a period of 30 days. Any motor vehicle that does not have a current
license plate or a current inspection or emissions control sticker
shall be conclusively presumed not to have been moved within 30 days
of the initial inspection if the vehicle is still without a current
license or a current inspection sticker or a current emission control
sticker.
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:
A.
Legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with
or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
B.
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 article 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, ratproofing, flyproofing
and mosquitoproofing.
[Amended 3-16-1999 by Ord. No. 1094]
The owner or any other person who is in control of any premises,
whether an owner, lessee or agent of the owner, or a corporate or
noncorporate director, administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate
of the owner who may, jointly and severally, violate any provision
of this article shall be, upon conviction thereof, 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 30
days. Each day that a violation of this article continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
This article is intended to regulate vectors and to be a supplement
to any other ordinance which may regulate like subject matter, such
as vegetation, junk automobiles and junkyards. Any violation of other
ordinances regulating similar subject matter shall be considered a
separate offense in addition to any offense occurring under this article.