[Ord. 306, 10/5/1981, § 1]
The purpose of this Part is to protect the health, safety, morals
and welfare of the citizens of the Borough by causing the removal
of abandoned, illegally parked, stored, wrecked, junked and stripped
vehicles from both public and private property, or the storage, placement
or accumulation on private property of junked, wrecked, discarded
or abandoned machinery, equipment, household appliances, household
furnishings or other debris and waste materials of any kind or description,
and to abate public nuisances caused by the storage of, parking of
and accumulation of such vehicles, machinery, household appliances,
household furnishings or other debris and waste materials of any kind
or description which are detrimental to the health, safety, morals
and welfare of the citizens of the Borough and which constitute a
peril to highway and traffic safety.
[Ord. 306, 10/5/1981, § 2]
As used in this Part, the following words or phrases shall have
the meaning ascribed to them in this Section:
ABANDONED
Any item resting for 96 hours or more and which is inoperable,
without current registration plates, certificate or inspection or
in such a condition as to be unusable.
APPLIANCE
A stove, refrigerator, television, furnace, water heater,
water softener, washer, dryer or mangle, household articles used to
perform any of the necessary work in a household, and articles used
in business to increase production or to speed, ease or eliminate
work.
DISCARDED
Any item resting for 96 hours or more with no known or apparent
owner.
JUNKED
Items sold or to be sold for scrap, being stripped or being
used or sold for parts.
MACHINERY
Machines or the constituent parts of a machine taken collectively,
any combinations of mechanical means designed to work together so
as to effect a given end.
PERSON
A natural person, the members of an unincorporated association,
all of the partners of a partnership and the officers and board of
directors of a corporation.
VEHICLE
An automobile, motorcycle, motorbike, minibike, bicycle,
go-cart, truck or other wheeled means of conveyance, motorized or
self-propelled.