CROSS REFERENCES
Cleanliness of animal enclosures — See §§ 614.02,
614.19.
Garbage and rubbish collection and disposal — See Ch. 1060.
Junk, wrecked and abandoned vehicles — See Ch. 482.
Littering from vehicles — See § 460.02.
Removal and disposal of dead animals — See § 614.08.
Water and slippery substances on laundromat floors — See
§ 824.03.
STATUTORY REFERENCES
Authority to prohibit accumulations of garbage and refuse — See
Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1202(4).
Health and cleanliness regulations — See Borough
Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1202(5).
Health and sanitation — See Borough Code, 8
Pa.C.S.A. §§ 3100 et seq.
Prohibition and removal of nuisances by Borough — See
Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1202(4) and (5).
[Ord. 3, passed 1-7-1946]
[Ord. 447, passed 10-3-1983]
No person shall set up or establish any place for the storage
of old automobiles, any automobile graveyard or any place for the
storage of junk of any kind.
[Ord. 43, passed 6-8-1953]
(A)
No person shall dump or spread upon the ground or keep or store in
any building or containers any cesspool cleanings, human excrement,
also known as night soil, or filth of any kind.
(B)
Dumping or spreading upon the ground and keeping or storing in any
building or container any cesspool cleanings, human excrement or filth
of any kind are hereby declared to be detrimental to the public health
and a nuisance and may be dealt with as such.
[Ord. 113, passed 9-9-1957; Ord. 565, passed 8-10-1992; Ord. 657, passed 8-6-2001]
(A)
No person shall burn any garbage or other material emitting noxious
odors, gases or fumes.
(B)
No person shall burn anything within the limits of the streets or
highways of the Borough.
(C)
The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Borough Fire
Marshal, the Code Enforcement Officer, the Building Inspector, the
Health Officer or members of the Borough Police Department. All of
these officials shall have enforcement authority to the fullest extent
permitted by law.
(D)
The outdoor burning of tree branches, leaves, shrubs, construction
materials and any other debris or waste is prohibited within the Borough.
(E)
If any such fire for any reason, either on the property wherein the
burning was initiated or any other property, results in the Fire Department
being called to extinguish the initial fire or any spread of that
fire, the individual who initiated the burning shall be responsible
for paying the Fire Department an amount equal to the cost of extinguishing
the such fire. Further, it shall be a violation of this section to
have the fire spread from the initial burning to any other location.
Such violation shall be punishable as a separate offense in addition
to any other violation of this section.
[Ord. 336, passed 7-1-1974]
(A)
NUISANCE
For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply
unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
Any condition or use of premises or of building exteriors
which is detrimental to the property of others or which causes or
tends to cause substantial diminution of the value of other property
in the neighborhood in which such premises are located. This includes,
but is not limited to, the keeping or the depositing on, or the scattering
over the premises of, any of the following:
(B)
No person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge of any premises
shall maintain or keep any nuisance thereon, nor shall any such person
keep or maintain such premises in a manner causing substantial diminution
of the value of other property in the neighborhood in which such premises
are located.
(C)
Should any person maintain or keep any nuisance as described in this
section, written notice to remove and abate the same within 24 hours
shall be served upon such person by any member of the Board of Health,
the Mayor or any member of Council. No person shall fail to comply
with such notice within such period of time. Should any such person
so fail to comply, then the Borough may cause the same to be done
and collect the cost thereof, together with a penalty of 10% of such
cost, in the manner provided by law for the collection of municipal
claims. Such remedy shall be in addition to the penalty provided in
§ 680.99.
[Ord. 161, passed 10-10-1960]
(A)
No person shall cause or permit any dirt, earth, stones, bricks,
building material or other matter to fall, be deposited or collect
upon any street in the Borough by reason of moving the same over such
street in or upon any type of vehicle, or track mud or dirt upon any
street, so as to cause an unsightly condition or so as to interfere
with the use of such street or to stop up or clog a sewer in the Borough,
or place earth or any other substance in the gutters by such street
so as to aid in crossing the curbs. Conditions prohibited in this
Division (A) are hereby declared to be public nuisances and may be
dealt with as such.
(B)
When any person commits a nuisance as described in Division (A) of
this section, written notice to remove and abate the same within 24
hours shall be served upon such person by any member of the Board
of Health, the Mayor or any member of Council. No person shall fail
to comply with such notice within such period of time. Should any
such person fail to comply, then the Borough may cause the same to
be done and collect the cost thereof, together with a penalty of 10%
of such cost, in the manner provided by law for the collection of
municipal claims. Such remedy shall be in addition to the penalty
provided in § 680.99.
[Ord. 257, passed 4-11-1966]
(A)
DEBRIS
PERSON
RESPONSIBLE PARTY
For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall
apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different
meaning.
Every kind of refuse, trash, garbage, earth, mud, dirt, fill,
discarded material or object, stone, rock, block, brick, wood, lumber,
building material or other kind of object or substance which will
create or could create any type of hazard, danger, obstruction or
interference of or with the public streets, sewers, gutters, roadways,
highways or sidewalks in the Borough.
Every natural person, co-partnership, association or corporation.
Whenever used in any clause prescribing or imposing a penalty, the
term "person," as applied to co-partnerships or associations, means
the partners or the members thereof, and as applied to a corporation,
the officers and directors thereof.
Any person who is the operator or controller of any vehicle
or other media which is used to carry or transmit debris, or the owner
of any real property from which the debris is transmitted or transported
or from which it flows or from which it emanates.
(B)
No person shall cause or permit debris to wash, drain, flow, roll,
fall, fly, drop or be placed upon any street, roadway, highway or
sidewalk in the Borough when the same could have been prevented by
reasonable precaution by the responsible party, and when the same
could or is likely to inhibit the flow of or clog drains, gutters,
sewers or culverts in the Borough, and where it could or is likely
to obstruct, inhibit or create a hazard to the traveling public or
could or is likely to interfere with the normal and customary use
of such street, roadway, highway or sidewalk.
(C)
Any person who causes or permits a violation of Division (B) of this
section shall immediately correct such violation and remove such debris
and return the street, highway, roadway or sidewalk to the condition
existing immediately prior to the violation. Compliance with this
division shall not, however, preclude the imposition of the penalty
provided in § 680.99.
[Ord. 380, passed 3-27-1978; Ord. 768, passed 1-7-2013; Ord. 803, passed 11-5-2018]
(A)
No owner, tenant or other person, firm or corporation in possession
of any real property in the Borough shall permit snow or ice to remain
on any pavement or sidewalk on such property for a period of more
than 24 hours after the accumulation of such snow or ice has ceased.
(B)
During the aforesaid twenty-four-hour period, the owner, tenant or
other person, firm or corporation in possession of such real property
shall remove such snow or ice from the pavement or sidewalk so as
to create a pathway on such pavement or sidewalk for pedestrian traffic,
which pathway shall be the entire width of the pavement or sidewalk.
(C)
A separate offense shall be deemed committed each and every day that
an owner, tenant or other person, firm or corporation in possession
of real property permits ice and snow to remain in violation of Division
(B) of this section.
[Ord. 77, passed 5-10-1954]
No person shall sell or dispense gasoline, kerosene or any other
volatile or inflammable liquid in glass containers or any containers
made of breakable material which may be deemed dangerous for transportation
of such inflammable material or liquid.
[Ord. 83, passed 6-14-1954]
(A)
No person shall leave outside of any building or dwelling in a place
accessible to children any abandoned, unattended or discarded ice
box, refrigerator or other container of any kind which has an airtight
door or lock which may not be released for opening from the inside
of such ice box, refrigerator or container.
(B)
No person shall leave outside of any building or dwelling in a place
accessible to children any abandoned, unattended or discarded ice
box, refrigerator or other container of any kind which has an airtight
snaplock or other device thereon without first removing such snaplock
of doors from such ice box, refrigerator or container.
[Ord. 415, passed 3-2-1981]
(A)
No person in the possession of real property in the Borough shall
store or stack firewood or other combustible materials for use in
fireplaces and wood-burning stoves unless such firewood or other combustible
materials are stored at least eight inches above the ground.
(B)
The Health Officer is hereby authorized to make reasonable and periodic
inspections of all properties where firewood or other combustible
materials for use in fireplaces or wood-burning stoves are stored
to ensure compliance with Division (A) of this section.
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Editor's Note: See § 202.99 for general code
penalty if no specific penalty is provided.
