For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall be applicable unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary:
DETRIMENTAL OBJECTS AND MATERIALS
Includes but is not limited to old tires, motor vehicles, motor vehicle parts or related equipment, rubbish, garbage, trash, organic waste, inorganic waste, household furniture, appliances and other obvious junk or salvage, which can endanger the public safety, fire safety, and/or create an environment for rodent infestation.
KEEP
To store, use or in any way maintain.
PERSON
Includes an individual, natural person, joint-stock company, partnership, voluntary association, society, club, firm, company, corporation, business, trust, organization or any other group acting as a unit, with a manger, lessee, agent, servant, partner, member, director, officer or employee of any of them, including an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or other representative appointed according to law.
PREMISES
Those areas of a structure or yard which are open to the weather.
PUBLIC NUISANCE
The unreasonable interference with the health, safety, peace, comfort or convenience of the general community.
TOWN ADMINISTRATOR
Includes the duly appointed or designated Town Administrator of the Town of Selbyville, as well as such other person under his or her supervision who is appointed by the Town Mayor and Council to enforce the provisions hereof.
It is the purpose of this article to eliminate the keeping of detrimental objects and/or materials on premises within the corporate limits of the Town of Selbyville.
This article is declared to be remedial and shall be construed to secure the beneficial intent and purposes thereof which are to eliminate dangerous conditions detrimental to public good and to protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the property owners and residents of the Town of Selbyville.
It shall be unlawful for any occupant or owner of any premises within the corporate limits of the Town of Selbyville to keep, to store, to have stored or permit to be stored on the premises any object or objects or any material of a detrimental nature which is unsuitable for outside storage or use, that would detract from the peace, health, safety or tranquillity of the premises whereon it is stored or of the adjoining premises, and the storage of such object or objects is hereby declared to be detrimental to the public health, safety and general welfare of the property owners and residents of the Town of Selbyville a common and public nuisance.
Whenever any person shall complain to the Town Administrator that a property owner or tenant is storing or maintaining detrimental objects or material on premises within the Town of Selbyville, the Town Administrator may investigate.
Upon a finding by the Town Administrator that a property owner or tenant is storing, using or maintaining detrimental objects or materials on premises, the Town Administrator shall send by certified mail with return receipt requested and postage prepaid a notice to the owner of record of the property as shown on the tax assessment records of the town to take whatever steps necessary to alleviate the nuisance within 10 days following receipt of such notice. Such notice shall contain the following information:
A. 
The nature of the complaint.
B. 
Location of the structure.
C. 
A statement that the detrimental object or material must be removed within 10 days following date of receipt of the notice.
D. 
A statement of penalties for noncompliance with such notice.
Upon the failure of the property owner or tenant to remove the detrimental objects and/or material being maintained in violation of the provisions of the article within the time specified as aforesaid, the Town Administrator may proceed to remove the objects and/or material being maintained in violation of this article or otherwise remedied at the expense of the owner of said property and, when completed, a bill for the costs thereby incurred as determined by the Town Mayor and Council in the name of the Town of Selbyville shall, as soon as convenient thereafter, be presented by certified mail with return receipt requested and postage prepaid to the owner of said property or the tenant of said owner.
If the bill so presented by the Town Administrator on behalf of the Town of Selbyville shall not be paid within 30 days following delivery thereof by certified mail with return receipt requested and postage prepaid, the Town Administrator of the Town of Selbyville may institute an action in the corporate name in any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Delaware for the collection of the debt to collect the same in a manner now or hereafter provided for the collection of judgments in the State of Delaware or to proceed by any other method provided in the Charter of the Town of Selbyville for the collection of debts due the Town of Selbyville.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined no less than $25 nor more than $100 or imprisoned for a term of no more than 20 days, or both, and shall pay the costs for prosecution, including Town Attorney fees and Victim's Compensation Fund assessment. For the purposes of this article, each day or part thereof that violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
In addition to any other remedy provided for in this article and because the purpose of this article is to safeguard and protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the property owners and residents of the Town of Selbyville, the Town Administrator is hereby authorized to bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin any violation of any provision of this article.