As used in this ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
A detached structure which is not used or not intended to
be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located
on or partially on any premises.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH COUNCIL
The Borough Council of the Borough of Jonestown, Lebanon
County, Pennsylvania.
BREEDING AREA
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
COLLECTION OF WATER
Contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations,
holes, depressions, open cesspools, tires, privy vaults, fountains,
cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes,
bottles, tubs, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs,
vessels, receptacles of any kind or other containers or devices which
may hold water.
DISPOSAL
The storage, collection, disposal or handling of refuse.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their
harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that
may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging,
larviciding, trapping or by any other recognized and legal vector
control elimination methods approved by the local or state authority
having such administrative authority.
GARBAGE
All animal and vegetable waste resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking or consumption of foods.
HARBORAGE
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
OCCUPANT
Any person over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking
or eating in, or actually having possession of, a dwelling unit or
a rooming unit; except that in dwelling units a guest will not be
considered an occupant.
OWNER
Any person who alone or jointly or severally with others:
A.
Shall have legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
B.
Shall have charge, care or control of any premises, dwelling
or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner or as executor, administrator,
trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus
representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions
of this Part and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto,
to the same extent as if he were the owner.
REFUSE
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage,
ashes and rubbish.
RUBBISH
Glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible
solid waste.
VECTOR
A rodent or insect capable of transmitting a disease or infection.
Vectors shall include, but not be limited to, rats, mosquitoes, cockroaches,
flies, ticks, etc.
VECTORPROOFING
A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of
vectors to or from a given space or building or gaining access to
food, water or harborage. This term shall include, but not be limited
to, ratproofing, flyproofing, mosquitoproofing, etc.