[Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
The word "person" used in this Part shall in all cases include
any individual, partnership, association or corporation, singular
or plural, including the responsible officers of any such association
or corporation.
[Ord. No. 3, 2/4/1956;
as amended by Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
Any chimney, furnace or smokestack found to be defective, any
fire hazards found, or any fire escapes or exists which are blocked
or found defective, upon inspection, shall immediately be repaired
or cleared upon written or printed notice from the Township Fire Marshal.
Such notice shall contain a specific statement of the danger or hazard
and a recommendation of the change or changes which are to be made.
[Ord. No. 3, 2/4/1956;
as amended by Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
No person shall make or originate any false alarm of fire.
[Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
No person shall deposit hot ashes, smouldering coals or embers,
grease or oily substances or other matter liable to spontaneous ignition
within 10 feet of any wooden or plastered wall, partition, fence,
hedge, floor, lumber, rubbish or any other combustible container.
Such containers, unless resting on the ground, outside the building,
must be placed on noncombustible stands and in every case must be
kept at least two feet from any wall, partition or other combustible
material.
[Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation making, using, storing or having charge or control of any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter or other combustible trash or fragments to fail, neglect or refuse at the close of each day to cause all such material which is not compactly baled or stacked in an orderly manner to be removed from the premises or stored in a noncombustible container as prescribed in § 9-203 of this Part.
[Ord. No. 3, 2/4/1956;
as amended by Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this
Part or neglecting or failing to comply with any order or notice issued
pursuant to a violation of any section hereof shall, upon conviction
before any District Justice within the County of Berks, be sentenced
to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000 for each offense, with costs to
be recovered in the name of the Township of Amity, Berks County, Pennsylvania,
and if the amount of said judgment and costs shall not be paid, said
person shall suffer imprisonment in the Berks County Prison for a
period not exceeding 30 days.
[Ord. No. 36, 2/6/1970]
The provisions of this Part shall be severable, and if any of
its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, invalid or beyond
the power of the Township of Amity to prohibit the decision so holding,
said provision shall not be construed to affect the validity of any
of the remaining portions of this Part. It is hereby declared as the
intent of the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Amity that this
Part would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, invalid or
unauthorized provision not been included therein.
