[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health of the Township of New Hanover 6-13-1978 by Ord. No. H-1978-1. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
GARBAGE
Includes animal entrails, food waste and refuse.
OFFAL
Includes the entrails of an animal or fish, refuse and animal or vegetable matter from kitchens, markets or stores.
PERSON
Includes a firm, partnership, corporation, individual or one or more individuals.
PIGS
Includes hogs, swine, shoats and pigs more than 60 days of age.
TANKAGE
Sterilized, dehydrated or ground animal protein.
The granting of a permit hereunder shall in no way authorize the creation of a nuisance or the maintenance of an obnoxious condition and shall in no way regulate or prevent the passing of future ordinances concerning the prohibition of or the limitation upon the keeping of pigs or the bringing of garbage into this Township.
No person shall have, keep, raise or maintain a pig or pigs in this Township without first procuring a license as hereinafter required. The license period shall be from the first day of February to the 31st day of January of the following year.
A. 
Application for a license shall be made to the Secretary of the Board of Health of the Township of New Hanover in writing. Said application shall include a statement of the location of the premises on which the pigs are proposed to be kept, the name and address of the owner and operator of said premises and the number of pigs proposed to be kept thereon and shall include such other information as may be required by the Board of Health.
[Amended 9-12-1978 by Ord. No. H-1978-2]
B. 
A license fee of $5 for fewer than 20 pigs, $10 for 20 to 50 pigs and $20 for more than 50 pigs shall accompany the application. If the application is refused, the fee shall be returned to the applicant.
[Amended 9-12-1978 by Ord. No. H-1978-2]
C. 
The Board of Health shall inspect the premises of the applicant prior to issuing the license and may conduct a public hearing upon said application. It shall be the duty of the applicant to publish a notice of his intention to apply for a license in a newspaper circulating within the Township at least two weeks before the date of issuing such license. The Board of Health shall have the authority either to grant said license or to refuse said license or to grant it upon conditions or in modified form.
D. 
Said license shall not be assignable and shall be limited to the premises on which the licensee had pigs on the date such license was issued.
E. 
All applicants, in accepting a license, must agree to conform to the requirements of this chapter.
Any person having or keeping pigs under a license issued under this chapter shall comply with the following provisions:
A. 
All buildings, yards or enclosures in which any pigs shall be kept shall be at all times in a neat, orderly, clean and sanitary condition.
B. 
All dead animals shall be buried or removed within 24 hours of death.
No person operating under a license issued hereunder shall locate any building, pig run, yard or pasture wherein pigs are kept closer than 250 feet to any highway or closer than 500 feet to any dwelling or residence other than the dwelling or residence of the farm whereon said pigs are kept.
A. 
The area wherein pigs are kept, except where they are housed in closed buildings, shall be completely fenced with a sturdy, well-constructed, closely woven wire fence or other equally effective fence so as to prevent any pigs from trespassing on adjoining property.
B. 
No pig or pigs shall be allowed at large upon the owner's property outside of properly fenced pasture.
No garbage, offal or any decaying vegetable substance shall at any time be transported upon the highways of this Township or be brought into this Township for the purpose of feeding the same to pigs within the Township.
[Amended 8-11-1992 by Ord. No. BH-1992-1]
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $500. Each and every day that any violation of this chapter occurs or is allowed to continue after occurring shall constitute a different offense, subjecting the violator, upon conviction thereof, to a fine for each offense. The Township Board of Health may revoke the license of any person who fails to pay this fine within five days of the same being imposed. Any person having three convictions shall be barred from having a renewal of his license.