All accumulations of trash, garbage, ashes and/or rubbish on any private or public property or grounds within the Township of Tredyffrin are hereby prohibited.
The storage or keeping of abandoned or junked automobiles on any private or public property or grounds within the Township of Tredyffrin, where the same amounts to a nuisance in fact, is hereby prohibited.
It is the responsibility of the owner or occupier of any property to keep that property free of any accumulations or nuisances such as those described in this article. Any such accumulations or nuisances prohibited by the terms of this article shall be abated and removed by the occupant and by the owner of the property on which such accumulation or nuisance exists and by the person or persons who are responsible for such accumulation or nuisance within five days after receipt by him, her or them of written notice so to do from the Board of Supervisors of Tredyffrin Township, and upon his, her or their default and/or failure or neglect to abate or remove such accumulation or nuisance within such time, the Township shall have the right and power to remove or cause the removal of or abatement of any such accumulation or nuisance and to pay for the cost or costs thereof and to collect the costs of such removal, together with a penalty of not more than $600, plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred by the Township in the enforcement of this article, for each and every such accumulation or nuisance, each day constituting a separate offense. No judgment shall be imposed until the date of the determination of the violation by the District Justice and/or Court. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable rules of civil procedure. Further, the appropriate officers or agents of the Township are hereby authorized to seek equitable relief, including injunction, to enforce compliance herewith.
It shall be unlawful hereafter in Tredyffrin Township for any person, association or corporation to store trash, rubbish or garbage outside of an enclosed building in other than closed waterproof containers.
From and after the effective date hereof, in Tredyffrin Township, no person, partnership, firm or corporation shall place containers for trash, rubbish, garbage or recyclables at the curb or in the front yard area of any lot, except during the period beginning at 6:00 p.m., prevailing time, on the day prior to a scheduled collection and ending at 12:00 midnight on the day of a scheduled collection. "Front yard area" shall mean the area between the street line and the first building on the lot.
In the enforcement of the provisions or any of the provisions of this article, the Board of Supervisors of Tredyffrin Township shall have the power and right to institute and conduct proceedings in courts of equity or courts of law, as well as before District Justices and other courts not of record.