[Ord. 64-1, 7/29/1964, § 1]
This Part shall be known and may be cited as "The Smith Township
Industrial Waste and Refuse Ordinance."
[Ord. 64-1, 7/29/1964, § 2]
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words and phrases
shall be construed throughout this Part to have the meanings as follows:
the Board of Supervisors of Smith Township.
any discarded waste which is a by-product of any industrial
plant which waste shall contain dangerous, offensive, and other qualities
injurious to life, health, animal life or the soil and water.
any partnership, association, firm and corporation.
Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 64-1, 7/29/1964, § 3]
It is hereby ordained and enacted by the Board of Supervisors
for the Township of Smith, Washington County Pennsylvania, that it
shall be unlawful for any person or any agent thereof to dump, empty
or place upon the ground or in any stream or any body of water, any
acid, industrial waste, pickling acid, lime, or combination thereof,
on any land or any wasted area, or [in any] streams of water within
the said Township, unless authorized pursuant to the Zoning Chapter,
and in addition to all State and Federal regulations.
[Ord. 64-1, 7/29/1964, § 4; as amended by Ord.
1985-2, 8/12/1985; and by Ord. 97-5, 11/19/1997]
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 $1,000.00 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.
[Ord. 64-1, 7/29/1964, § 5]
In addition to the remedies provided in § 304 above,
any continued violations of this Part which shall constitute a nuisance
in fact or which shall in the opinion of the Board constitute a nuisance
may be abated by proceeding against the violator in a court of equity
for relief.
