[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 1]
This Part shall be known as and may be cited as the Vermin Control
Ordinance of the Borough of Emmaus.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 2]
The elimination of rats, mice, cockroaches, and other types
of pests of vermin from any building, lot or premises through the
use of traps, baiting fumigation, or any other method of extermination
approved by the Borough Council and subject to applicable laws relating
to poisonous substances and fumigants.
Any condition which provides shelter or protection for rats,
mice, cockroaches, and other types of pests or vermin.
The owner or part owner of a building, lot or premises, whether
an individual, partnership or corporation, the agent or occupant of
a building, lot or premises, or any person who has the use or custody
of the same, or any part thereof, whether an individual, partnership
or corporation.
Any various small animals or insects including rats, mice,
cockroaches, lice, flees, or other pests.
The treatment or shielding with material impervious to gnawing,
of all actual or potential openings in the exterior and interior walls,
grounds or first floors, roofs, foundations, basements, sidewalk gratings
and other places that may be reached by rats, mice, or other similar
vermin from the ground or by climbing or burrowing.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 3]
The purpose of this Part is to protect public health by the
control and eradication of rats, mice, cockroaches, and other types
of pests or vermin; to prescribe methods for the extermination of
said vermin; to eliminate harborages for such vermin; and to prohibit
conditions conducive to the existence of such vermin in the Borough
of Emmaus.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 4; as amended by Ord. 1161,
9/18/2017]
1.
All buildings, lots or premises within the corporate limits of the
Borough of Emmaus shall be kept free from any condition conducive
to rats, mice, cockroaches, and other types of pests or vermin. The
person in control shall not allow the accumulation of automobiles
or trucks without current license plates or a current inspection sticker,
garbage, refuse, or any material which may afford harborage or provide
food for rats, mice, cockroaches, and other types of pests or vermin.
2.
Whenever conditions inside or under unoccupied buildings provide
extensive harborage for rats or other vermin, the Borough Manager,
Animal Control Officer, or Building Official or other duly designated
person, is empowered, if said conditions are not corrected in a period
of 30 days after written notification to the owner, to institute condemnation
and demolition proceedings. The cost of such proceedings is to be
borne by the owner.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 5; as amended by Ord. 1161,
9/18/2017]
1.
Unconsumed food shall not be allowed to remain where it is accessible
to rats, mice, cockroaches, and other types of pests or vermin.
2.
Garbage and waste materials shall be placed in nonleaking metal or
plastic containers with securely fitted lids, plastic bags tightly
bound, or such other tightly covered nonleaking containers as may
be approved by the Board of Health and Borough Council, and stored
in such a manner as not to create an attraction or harborage for rats,
mice, cockroaches, and other types of pests or vermin.
3.
When the Borough Manager, Animal Control Officer, or Code Official
notifies the person or persons in control of a building in writing
that there is evidence of rat or other vermin infestation on the premises,
the said person or persons shall immediately institute eradication
measures and shall continuously maintain such measures in a satisfactory
manner until the premises is declared by the Borough Manager, Animal
Control Officer, or Building Official or duly designated person to
be free of such infestation. Unless said measures are undertaken within
five days after receipt of notice, it shall be construed as a violation
of the provisions of this part and the person or persons shall be
held responsible thereof.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 6; as amended by Ord. 1161,
9/18/2017]
When any building, lot, or premises is subject to infestation
by rats, mice, cockroaches, or other types of pests or vermin, the
person in control shall apply continuous or repeated eradication measures,
as required by the Borough Manager, Animal Control Officer, or Building
Official or duly designated person until there is no evidence of infestation
remaining.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 7; as amended by Ord. 1161,
9/18/2017]
1.
Whenever conditions inside, outside, or under a building, or on any
lot or premises, provide harborage for rats, mice, cockroaches, and
other types of pests or vermin, the Borough Manager, Animal Control
Officer, or Building Official or other duly designated person may
require any one, or more, buildings to be vermin-proofed.
[Ord. 489, 11/6/1972, § 8; as amended by Ord. 675,
11/17/1986]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part 2 shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $300; and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 90 days. Every day that a violation of this Part 2 continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
