[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of West Vincent 4-9-2001 by Part Four of Ord. No. 107. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "West Vincent
Littering Ordinance."
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases,
words and forms thereof shall have the meanings or interpretations
given herein.
An accumulation of waste material.
The depositing of waste material not in the proper way.
Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless;
trash or rubbish.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way, intended
for use as a means of vehicular and pedestrian access. The word "road"
includes avenue, boulevard, thoroughfare, street, highway, alley,
lane and other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic
or pedestrians, whether public or private.
Worthless material.
The edge bordering a roadway.
Worthless or useless material that is produced as by-product
and discarded as refuse.
Littering within the Township of West Vincent, Chester County,
Pennsylvania, consists of the depositing of any wastepaper, sweepings,
ashes, household waste, glass, metal, refuse or rubbish, or any dangerous
detrimental substance onto any Township road.
In the following cases, it shall not be a violation of this
chapter:
A.Â
For a Township road crew working to repair or improve a roadway.
B.Â
Any general contractor working as an agent of the Township to repair
or improve a roadway; except, all waste, rubbish and trash must be
removed at the end of each workday.
C.Â
A property owner or tenant placing their trash out for normal collection
and this trash is secured properly so as not to blow away or into
the roadway.
A.Â
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any provision of this
chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $1,000 and/or to imprisonment to the extent allowed
by law for the punishment of summary offenses. Enforcement shall be
by action brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the same
manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the
Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
B.Â
Also, upon conviction thereof, a person or company shall remove all
items that were deposited or shall be required to reimburse the Township
of West Vincent and its agents for expenses incurred for cleanup and
removal of the items deposited.
