[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Harborcreek 5-16-1956 by Ord.
No. 5. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words, when used in this chapter, shall have the
meanings prescribed to them in this section except in those instances
when the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
Junked tractors, tractor parts, trailers and trailer parts,
junked machinery and machinery parts, industrial by-products and waste
of every kind and nature, discarded lumbering and building materials,
and all kinds and sorts of material commonly classified as junk.
Every natural person, association, partnership or corporation.
The single shall include the plural. Whenever used in connection with
prescribing or imposing a penalty, or both, the term as applied to
partnership shall mean the partner or any of them and as applied to
corporations or associations shall mean the officers thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, store, accumulate
or cause or allow to be dumped, stored or accumulated any junk on
any land, public or private, to store or cause or allow to be stored
junked automobiles on public or private property or to carry on any
offensive manufacture or business or allow or cause to be allowed
the existence of any dangerous structure or excavation within the
limits of the Township of Harborcreek.
In the event any person shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter, the Supervisors of Harborcreek Township shall order
the removal of any such nuisances or dangerous structures from public
or private ground after 15 days' written notice to the owner
or occupants of the premises to do so and, upon default of the owners
or occupants of the premises to abate such nuisances, the Supervisors
of Harborcreek Township shall abate or remove the same and collect
the costs of such removal together with the penalty of $10 from the
owners or occupants.
A.
Any person violating the terms of this chapter shall be subject to
a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250 and, in default of
payment thereof, shall be committed to the Erie County Jail for a
period of not more than 30 days for each separate offence, with the
right of appeal as in other cases of summary convictions.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
The dumping, storage or accumulation of junk, the storage of abandoned
or junked automobiles, the carrying on of any offensive manufacture
or business, the allowing of any dangerous structure or excavation
in violation hereof shall constitute a separate offense for each day
the condition is allowed to exist.
C.
All fines levied, assessed and paid under the terms of this chapter
shall be payable to the Treasurer of the Township of Harborcreek for
the general use of the Township.
Any ordinance or part of ordinance conflicting with the provisions
of this chapter shall be and the same is hereby repealed
