For the purposes of this Article, the following words have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:
BUILDING OFFICIAL
A person appointed by the President of the Commissioners of the Town of Bridgeville empowered to enforce the Articles and sections of this chapter.
OWNER
Any person, firm, conservator, receiver or officer who owns, holds or controls the whole or any part of the freehold title (control of the freehold title is not intended to mean a tenant under any type of written or oral tenancy) to any real property, including but not limited to vacant land, buildings, dwelling units, commercial real property, etc., with or without accompanying actual possession thereof, and shall include, in addition to the holder of legal title, any vendee in possession thereof but shall not include a mortgagee or trustee under deed of trust, unless such mortgagee or trustee is in actual possession.
RUBBISH
The waste materials commonly referred to as "rubbish and garbage," including garbage from normal household living conditions, including waste, foodstuffs of vegetable or animal origin, paper products, fabrics, plastic and metal containers, bottles, crockery and other similar materials, and combustible and noncombustible waste materials, including the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible material, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, yard trimmings, tin cans, metals, mineral matter, glass crockery, abandoned or inoperable machinery, bottles, wastepaper, cardboard, sawdust piles, rubbish from building construction or reconstruction, uprooted tree stumps, street refuse and all other waste materials, including any abandoned, unlicensed or inoperable motor vehicle.
A. 
The provisions of this Article shall apply to any real property within the corporate limits of Bridgeville.
B. 
The decision of the Building Official as to whether particular articles are rubbish, as herein defined, shall be final, and if articles of rubbish have been mixed with other articles not constituting rubbish, as herein defined, the Building Official shall be entitled to treat all such mixed articles as rubbish.
C. 
The Town of Bridgeville, its officers, employees, agents or contractors are hereby authorized to enter upon any real property within the Town of Bridgeville to remove such rubbish and to do any and all other matters upon such property as are reasonably necessary and proper to enforce this article.
D. 
The correction of any condition by the Town of Bridgeville under authority of this article shall not relieve the owner of the property on which such condition existed or arose from criminal prosecution or punishment, whether misdemeanor or municipal infraction, for having caused or allowed such unlawful condition to arise or from having failed or refused to correct the same.
No person shall allow rubbish to remain, to be deposited or to accumulate, either temporarily or permanently, on his or her property.
Town of Bridgeville Building Official is hereby authorized to notify the owner of the property as determined by the official tax rolls of the Town of Bridgeville to remove or properly dispose of the rubbish from the subject property.
Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any owner so notified to remove or properly dispose of such rubbish within 10 days after service of notice, as provided for in this article, the Town of Bridgeville Building Official is hereby authorized and empowered to cause such condition to be corrected by removing and disposing of such rubbish and is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the disposing of such rubbish.
A. 
When the Town of Bridgeville has effected the removal of such rubbish by its employees or has paid for the removal of such rubbish by its agents or contractors, the actual costs thereof and any related expenses, along with an administrative fee of $100, shall be charged to the owner of such property, and if not sooner paid, such charge will be carried on the records of the Town of Bridgeville and shall be collectible in the same manner as real estate taxes are collected.
B. 
When the Town of Bridgeville has, for the second time and any additional times at such property, effected the removal of such rubbish by its own employees or has paid for the removal of such rubbish by its agents or contractors, the actual costs thereof and any related expenses, along with an administrative fee of $500, shall be charged to the owner of such property, and if not sooner paid, such charge will be carried on the records of the Town of Bridgeville and shall be collectible in the same manner as real estate taxes are collected.
C. 
Any person violating any provision of this chapter, upon conviction thereof, shall pay such fines as set out in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II, Penalties.[1]
[Amended 7-8-1996 by Ord. No. 1796; 2-11-2013 by Ord. No. A13-2]
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Editor's Note: Former Art. IV, Garbage and Refuse Collection, added 10-9-2000 by Ord. No. 1-2000, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 12-9-2019 by Ord. No. 19-6.