[Adopted 11-16-1970 by Ord. No. 651 (Ch. 10, Part 2B, of the 1987 Code of Ordinances)]
The following words, terms, and phrases shall be construed in this article to have the following meanings except in those instances where the context clearly indicates otherwise.
GARBAGE
All animal and vegetable waste attending or resulting from the handling, dealing in, storing, preparation, cooking, and consumption of foods; all refuse of animal or vegetable matter which has been used for food of man or which was intended to be so used, and excess fruit from trees on residential property but not from trees in orchards or on farms.
PERSON
Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation.
RUBBISH
All paper, cardboard, rags, broken grass, crockery, bottles, tin cans, wastebasket debris, grass cuttings, and small household refuse, generally including incinerator ashes and refuse from paper burners and ashes from heating plants and coal stoves and refuse caused by repairs, alterations, and new constructions of buildings and sidewalks.
TRASH
Any fluid or object other than garbage and rubbish which is abandoned or of no further use to its owner.
A. 
The right of the people to clean air, pure water, and the natural qualities of their environment shall not be abridged.
B. 
The Township of North Versailles shall endeavor to assure the rights guaranteed to its citizens in Subsection A.
C. 
The Township of North Versailles shall endeavor to correct the ecological imbalance in our dead streams by seeking in cooperation with other local municipalities to eliminate mine acid drainage and other pollutants in our streams with the goal and intention of providing the citizens of the Township of North Versailles with living streams abundant in natural wildlife.
A. 
No person shall keep, accumulate, or suffer to remain upon his or her premises, or upon any private or public property, any garbage, rubbish, or trash.
B. 
No person shall throw, place or dump any garbage, rubbish, or trash upon the shores, margins, or surface of any sewer inlet, stream, drainage ditch, or other body of water within said Township of North Versailles.
[Amended 11-16-1987 by Ord. No. 857; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 867]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and/or to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Every day that a violation of this article continues shall constitute a separate offense.