[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]
The unreasonable, unwarrantable or unlawful use of property
which causes injury, damage, hurt, inconvenience, annoyance to reasonable
rights of persons of property.
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, § 6]
It shall be unlawful for any person to store or cause or permit
the storage of any abandoned or junked automobiles on public or private
ground within the limits of the Borough of New Oxford, and any such
storage 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.
