As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The elimination of rodents or insects and other pest life
from any building, lot or premises through the use of traps, baiting,
fumigation or any other method of extermination approved by the Board
of Health, subject to applicable laws relating poisonous substances
and fumigants.
Any condition which provides shelter or protection for rodents,
insects, or other pest life.
The owner or part owner of a building, lot or premises, whether
an individual, partnership or corporation or the agent or occupant
of a building, lot or premises or any other person who has the use
or custody of the same or any part thereof, whether an individual,
partnership, corporation or other entity.
The treatment or shielding with material impervious to rodent
gnawing of all actual or potential openings in the interior and exterior,
walls, ground or first floors, roofs, foundations, basements, sidewalk
gratings, and other places that may be reached by rodents from the
ground or by climbing or borrowing.
All buildings, lots or premises in the Borough
shall be kept free from any condition conducive to rodents, insects
and other pest life. The person in control shall not allow the accumulation
of casual water, garbage, building material, brush, wood piles, or
any other material stored less then 16 inches above the ground which
may afford harborage or provide food for rodents, insects or other
pest life.[1]
A.
No person in control shall feed wild birds other than
in suitable, properly shielded containers for the food, installed
in such a manner as to be inaccessible to rodents and to prevent the
scattering of feed on the ground.
B.
No person shall place food in the open for the feeding
of any domesticated fowl or animal except in a container which will
prevent the scattering of the food upon the ground. Unconsumed food
shall not be allowed to remain where it is accessible to rodents,
insects, or other pest life.
C.
All garbage shall be wrapped. Garbage and waste material
shall be placed in approved watertight containers with tight-fitting
lids and stored in such a manner as not to create an attraction or
harborage for rodents, insects or other pest life.
A.
When any building, lot or premises is subject to infestation
by rodents, insects or other pest life the person in control shall
apply continuous repeated eradication measures as required by the
Board of Health until there is no evidence of infestation remaining.
B.
No building shall be demolished until the Board of
Health certifies to the Code Enforcement Officer of the Borough of
Columbia that the building and premises are free from the infestation
of rodents, insects or other pest life.
C.
The Board of Health may, in its discretion, order
the person in control of any inland swamp, pond, creek, lake, pool,
sunken lot, quarry or abandoned excavation, or any other place where
stagnant water may collect, to fill in or drain the same, or to employ
other methods to prevent the breeding of insects and other pest life.
A.
Whenever conditions inside, outside or under any building
or buildings or on any lot or premises provide harborage for rats,
the Board of Health may require all or any one or more buildings or
premises to be rodentproofed and harborages removed.
B.
The person in control of a building or premises required
to be rodentproofed shall maintain the rodentproofing in good repair.
No person shall injure the rodentproofing. When the rodentproofing
is injured in the course of making alterations, installations, additions
or repairs to the building, the person in control shall restore the
rodentproofing in good condition.
C.
No person shall undertake to remodel or alter any
existing building or portion thereof for the purpose of rodentproofing
without first submitting plans to the Board of Health.
