[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Upper Providence 6-3-1974 by Ord. No. 156 (Ch. 135 of the 1990 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 3-7-1977 by Ord. No. 183]
The following acts are hereby declared to be unlawful and shall be prohibited:
A. 
The creation of a public nuisance.
(1) 
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used for any trade, industry or business that is noxious or offensive by reason of dust, smoke, gas, vibration, illumination or noise.
(2) 
No lot or premises shall be used for the storage, deposit or disposal of rubbish, junk, scrap metal, machinery parts, garbage, litter, wastepaper, unlicensed, uninspected or junked or abandoned vehicles or any noxious, offensive or otherwise objectionable material, except in closed buildings or containers for temporary storage pending removal in the immediate future.
B. 
The operation of a dump or junkyard, whether for personal or commercial purposes. An area of land with or without buildings, used for the storage, outside a completely enclosed building, of used and discarded materials, including but not limited to wastepaper, rats, garbage, metal, building materials, house furnishings or appliances, machinery or parts thereof or vehicles or parts thereof, with or without the dismantling, processing, salvage, sale or other use or disposition of the same or the deposit or storage on a lot of one or more unlicensed, uninspected, wrecked, disabled or junked vehicles or the major parts thereof shall be deemed to constitute a dump or junkyard.
C. 
The use of trash, garbage, rubbish, ashes or waste material of any description for purposes of changing the contour of the land.[1]
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Editor's Note: See also Ch. 178, Grading and Excavation.
[Amended 9-17-1990 by Ord. No. 301; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.