[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 1]
The word "person," as used in this Part, shall mean any natural person, firm, association, partnership or corporation.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 2; as amended by Ord. 346, 5/6/1991]
NUISANCE
The unreasonable, unwarrantable or unlawful use of property which causes injury, damage, hurt, inconvenience, annoyance to reasonable rights of persons of property.
REFUSE
Hedges, shrubbery, trees, grass, leaves and other similar natural growth not possessing life.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 3]
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, or permit to be maintained, a nuisance on any property owned or occupied by such person within the limits of the Borough of New Oxford.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 4]
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, or permit to be maintained, on any property owned or occupied by such person within the limits of the Borough of New Oxford, any condition detrimental to health and any such condition shall constitute a nuisance.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 5]
It shall be unlawful for any person to accumulate or cause or permit the accumulating of garbage, refuse or rubbish on private grounds within the limits of the Borough of New Oxford and any such accumulation shall constitute a nuisance.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 7]
It shall be unlawful for any person to have, cause or permit the existence of any dangerous structure on public or private grounds within the limits of the Borough of New Oxford.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 8]
It shall be unlawful to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit, within the limits of the Borough of New Oxford, any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless such collection of water is treated so as effectually to prevent such breeding. Any collection of water 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 or flush closets, reservoirs, vessels, receptacles of kind or other containers or devices which may hold water.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 9]
The methods used, or treatment directed, toward the prevention of breeding of mosquitos in collections of water shall be of a type approved by the Borough Council or designated official. The Borough Council or designated official shall, from time to time, issue mosquito control regulations.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 10]
The presence of mosquito larvae in collections of water shall be evidence that mosquitos are breeding there, and failure to prevent such breeding within three days after notice by the Borough Council or designated official shall be deemed a violation of this Part.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 11]
In the event any person shall violate any of the provisions of this Part, the Borough Council may order the abatement or removal of any such nuisance or dangerous structure by the owner or occupier of such grounds, after 15 days' written notice to such owners or occupiers to do so and, upon default of the owners occupiers of such grounds to abate or remove such nuisances or dangerous structure as so ordered, the Borough shall abate or remove such nuisance or dangerous structure as so ordered, the Borough shall abate or remove the same or cause its abatement or removal, and collect the cost thereof, together with a penalty of 10% of the cost, in the manner provided by law.
[Ord. 276, 5/7/1973, § 12; as amended by Ord. 384, 6/7/1999]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.