[Ord. 161, 8/6/2014, § 1.24]
All municipal waste accumulated by the owners or occupants of
each residential property or establishment shall be placed in containers
for collection. The containers shall be located so as to be accessible
to the collector at ground level and at a point of the curbline of
the street or within 10 feet of the public street or alley curbline
from which collection is to be made. Containers shall be placed out
for collection not earlier than 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the
scheduled collection.
[Ord. 161, 8/6/2014, § 1.25]
The Township Board of Supervisors shall have the right to adopt
resolutions establishing regulations to effectuate and clarify the
municipal waste disposal provisions of this chapter. These regulations
shall have the full force and effect as though they were set forth
in this chapter.
[Ord. 161, 8/6/2014, § 1.26]
The Board of Supervisors may from time to time adopt a resolution
establishing a Township official to serve as the Municipal Waste and
Recycling Coordinator. Said official shall have the responsibility
to coordinate the Township municipal waste program. The Coordinator
shall also prepare any necessary revisions to the municipal waste
and recycling regulations, for review and approval by the Board of
Supervisors.
[Ord. 161, 8/6/2014, § 1.27]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this
chapter or any provisions of the regulations adopted pursuant to this
chapter.
2.
No person shall scavenge, remove, take, scatter or disturb municipal
waste or recyclables which have been placed by another person at the
curbside for collection by hauler pursuant to the curbside collection
program.
[Ord. 161, 8/6/2014, § 1.28; as amended by A.O.]
1.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of
this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial
district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $300 nor more than $1,000
plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a
term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation
of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be
found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense. For
purposes of this section, the doing of any act or thing as to which
any provision of this chapter creates and affirmative duty, shall
constitute a violation of this chapter, punishable as herein stated.
2.
In addition to other remedies, the Township shall have the right
to institute and maintain appropriate actions by law or in equity
to restrain, correct or abate any violations of this chapter or regulations
adopted pursuant to this chapter.
[Ord. 161, 8/6/2014, § 1.30]
The various headings used throughout this chapter are intended
only as an aid in its organization, in order to facilitate ease of
reading, and are not to be considered a substantive part of this chapter.
In this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the singular;
and the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.
