[Ord. 291, 11/11/1975, § 2]
For the purpose of this Part, the following definitions shall
apply:
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.
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
Considered in this Part shall be held to be those 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.
Fallen into partial ruin or decay.
The storage, collection, disposal or handling of refuse.
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.
All animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of foods.
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
Any person over one of age living, sleeping, cooking or eating
in or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a rooming unit,
except that in dwelling units, a guest will not be considered an occupant.
Any person who, alone, jointly or severally with others:
Shall have legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, or
Shall have 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 Part and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto
to the same extent as if he were the owner.
All solid wastes, except body waste, and shall include garbage,
ashes and rubbish.
Glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible
solid wastes.
A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease
or infection. Vectors shall include but not be limited to rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies, ticks, etc.
A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of
vectors to or from a given space or building or gaining access to
food, water or harborage. This term shall include but not be limited
to ratproofing, flyproofing, mosquitoproofing, etc.
[Ord. 291, 11/11/1975, § 3]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit
any refuse, offal, pomace, dead animals, decaying matter or organic
substance of any kind in or upon any private lot, building, structure,
accessory structure, premises or in or upon any street, avenue, alley,
parkway, ravine, ditch, gutter or into any of the waters of the Commonwealth
so that the same shall or may afford food, harborage or breeding areas
for rats, flies or other vectors.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit
or permit to accumulate in or upon any premises, improved or vacant,
or on any open lot or alley, any lumber, boxes, barrels, bottles,
cans, glass, scrap iron, wire, metal articles, pipe, broken stone
or cement, broken crockery, broken plaster or rubbish of any kind
unless the same may be kept in approved covered receptacles or placed
on open racks that are elevated not less than 18 inches above the
ground and evenly piled or stacked or disposed as may be approved
by the Department of Environmental Resources.
3.
It shall be unlawful to maintain a junk yard or place for dumping,
wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery
of any kind for the storage or leaving of dilapidated, wrecked or
abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind or
of any of the parts thereof or for the storage or leaving of any machinery
or equipment used by contractors or builders or by other persons,
which said places may afford harborage or breeding areas for rats
or other vectors.
4.
It shall be unlawful to store refuse in containers other than those
which shall be made of durable, watertight, rust-resistant material
having a tight-fitting lid which must be kept on the container when
in use. The containers must be kept clean by thorough rinsing and
draining as often as necessary so as not to provide food or breeding
areas for flies.
5.
It shall be unlawful to dump, burn, bury, destroy or otherwise dispose
of refuse except at an approved refuse disposal site.
6.
It shall be unlawful to collect, haul, transport or convey garbage
in open, unenclosed, non-leakproof vehicles.
7.
It shall be unlawful to construct, maintain or use a sewage system,
privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement so
that vectors may have access to the excrementitious matter contained
therein.
8.
It shall be unlawful to permit weeds or other similar vegetation
more than six inches high to remain standing in any vacant lot, yard
or other place except as may be approved by the municipality.
9.
It shall be unlawful to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit any
collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed
or are likely to breed unless such collection of water is treated
or maintained so as to effectually prevent such breeding.
[Ord. 291, 11/11/1975, § 4]
1.
Every owner of a dwelling containing two or more dwelling units shall
maintain in a clean and sanitary condition the shared or public areas
of the dwelling and premises thereof.
2.
Every occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit shall maintain in a
clean and sanitary condition that part of those parts of the dwelling,
dwelling unit and premises thereof that he occupies and controls.
3.
Every occupant of a dwelling containing a single dwelling unit shall
be responsible for the extermination of insects and/or rodents on
the premises, and every occupant of a dwelling unit in a dwelling
containing more than one dwelling unit shall be responsible for such
extermination whenever his dwelling unit is the only one infested.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, whenever
infestation is caused by failure of the owner to maintain a dwelling
in a rodentproof or reasonable insectproof condition, extermination
shall be the responsibility of the owner. Whenever infestation exists
in two or more of the dwelling units in any dwelling or in the shared
or public parts of any dwelling containing two or more dwelling units,
extermination shall be the responsibility of the owner.
[Ord. 291, 11/11/1975, § 5]
1.
Any dwelling, building, structure, accessory structure, premises
or any other place may be required to be vectorproofed when found
to be providing harborage or breeding areas for rats, flies, mosquitoes
or any other vectors.
2.
It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, contractor, public
utility company, plumber or any other person to remove and fail to
restore in like condition the vectorproofing from any building, structure
or accessory structure for any purpose.
[Ord. 291, 11/11/1975, § 6]
1.
From and after passage of this Part, the municipality and/or a representative
of the Vector Control Program is empowered to make inspections of
the interior and exterior of all dwellings, buildings, structures
and accessory structures, premises, collections of water or any other
places to determine full compliance with this Part and to determine
evidence of vector infestation and the need for vectorproofing or
additions or repairs to existing vectorproofing.
2.
Whenever it shall be determined that any dwelling, building, structure,
accessory structure, premises, collection of water or any other place
is in violation of this Part, a notice shall be issued setting forth
the alleged violations and advising the owner, occupant, operator
or agent that such violations must be corrected. The time for the
correction of said violations must be given as well as the necessary
methods to be employed in the correction.
3.
Whenever said violations shall fail to be corrected within the time
set for and an extension of this time is not deemed to be necessary,
the municipality may proceed to abate the said violations in the manner
provided by the law.
[Ord. 291, 11/11/1975, § 7; as amended by Ord.
361, 4/8/1986]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part 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 continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
