The following are declared to be a public nuisance and shall
be abated by the owners thereof within the prescribed time within
and after written notice has been given to the owner or the agent
of such owner, by any officer of the Borough directed thereto by the
Code Enforcement Officer, Borough Manager, and/or Borough Manager's
designee.
A. Any structure which is unoccupied for a continuous period of 15 days
under the following conditions:
(1) Having any of the windows or doors in the structure broken out and
either boarded up or left open.
(2) Having any of the roof, weatherboarding or other outside part of
the structure broken off, dilapidated or open so that access can be
had to the building without the use of a key, or so that rain, snow,
animals, vermin and other deleterious substances or things are not
excluded from the building or any part thereof.
B. Any structure occupied by persons:
(1) When the structure is not supplied with sanitary sewer service, laundry
and bath facilities, and other sanitary services which are required
by the laws of the Commonwealth and Borough ordinances, and have not
been inspected and approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
(2) When a structure is not supplied with utilities including, but not
limited to, sanitary sewer service, water, electric, gas, including
documentation.
(3) When there are not sufficient rooms and sanitary beds to provide
sleeping quarters for the occupants or tenants in the building within
the requirements of the Housing Code and sanitary laws of the Commonwealth
and the City.
C. Any and all structure(s):
(1) Which is abandoned, dilapidated, unsafe, unsanitary or uninhabitable
in the opinion of the Code Enforcement Officer, Borough Manager, and/or
Borough Manager's Designee, and is left so that it may be entered
without the use of a key or by unauthorized persons or trespassers.
(2) Which, in the opinion of the Code Enforcement Officer, Borough Manager,
and/or Borough Manager's Designee, is not fit for human habitation.
(3) Which has had a total of three or more responses by the Police or
Fire Departments cumulative within a twelve-month period.
After the owner is given notice, and the owner fails to pay
the amount due, said amount shall constitute a debt due and owing
to the Borough, and the Borough may commence a civil action to collect
such the unpaid debt.
This article shall be effective immediately upon enactment or
as soon thereafter as the applicable laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
allow.