[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.
[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.