The purpose of this article is to protect the public health,
safety, and welfare, and to prevent the depreciation of property values
due to a person's actions or property constituting a violation of
the conditions of this article.
No person shall erect, construct, cause, continue, maintain, or permit any public nuisance within the Borough of Mount Oliver. Any person who shall cause, create, or maintain a nuisance or who shall in any way aid or contribute to the causing, creating, or maintenance thereof shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter and shall be liable for all costs and expenses attendant upon the removal and correction of such a nuisance and to the penalty provided in §
87-33 of this article.
It shall be the responsibility of tenants and property owners
to maintain their property in a nuisance-free manner and also to be
responsible for the abatement and/or correction of any public nuisance
that has been determined to exist on their property.
The following shall be deemed public nuisances and a violation
of this article:
A. Unburied carcasses: carcasses of animals, birds, or fowl not intended
for human consumption or food, which are not buried or otherwise disposed
of in a sanitary manner within 24 hours after death.
B. Household pet waste: accumulations of bodily waste from all household
domestic animals and fowl that is handled, stored, or disposed of
in a manner that creates a health hazard.
C. Food or breeding places for vermin, insects, etc.: Accumulations
of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, garbage, rotting
lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal, animal and human fecal
matter, or any substance in which flies, mosquitoes, or disease-carrying
insects, rats, or other vermin can breed, live, nest, or seek shelter.
D. Toxic and hazardous materials: any chemical and/or biological material
that is stored, used, or disposed of in such quantity or manner that
is, or has the potential to create, a health hazard.
E. Holes and openings: any hole or opening caused by improperly abandoned
cistern, septic tank, dug well, etc., or any improperly abandoned,
barricaded, or covered up excavation.
All violations of this article shall be subject to forfeiture
of not less than $250, nor more than $500 per offense, together with
applicable surcharges and costs of prosecution. Each day of continued
violation shall constitute a separate offense.