[Adopted 4-2-1954 by Ord. No. 1954-02]
The following words, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:
GARBAGE
Any animal or vegetable waste, including offal, carcasses, putrid meat, bone, fat, swill and vegetable or animal refuse resulting from handling, preparation or consumption of food.
PERSON
Any person, partnership or corporation.
WASTE
Includes paper, ashes, shavings, rubbish, manure, stone, wood, mortar, lime, sweepings, boxes, cartons, glass, garbage, or any other substance of any kind generally discarded or disposed of.
On and after the effective date of this article, it will be unlawful for any person to keep or suffer to remain on his premises or on any private property owned, leased or controlled by him any accumulation of garbage, waste, offal, vegetable or animal waste, or to cast the same upon any lot or piece of ground within the limits of the Township of Lower Windsor or on any highway, street, or alley, or upon the shores or margins of any of the streams within said Township, or so near to the limits thereof as to be offensive.
[Amended 10-12-1988; 9-12-1996 by Ord. No. 1996-03; 3-13-1997 by Ord. No. 1997-01]
A. 
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding before a Magisterial District Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus the costs of prosecution and, upon default of payment of said fine and costs, to imprisonment in the York County Prison for not more than 90 days. Each day or portion thereof in which a violation is found to have been violated shall be a separate offense.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
B. 
Enforcement. This article shall be enforced by the Lower Windsor Township Police Department or by the other appropriate officer or officers of Lower Windsor Township. Any such officer is authorized to determine whether a violation of such article has occurred.