[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Upper Hanover 2-14-1972 by Ord. No. 71-1. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Property maintenance — See Ch. 355.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
terms, phrases, words and their derivatives shall have the meaning
given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in
the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include
the singular, and words used in the singular include the plural. The
word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
Every device of a type which may be registered for the transport
of persons or property on public roads or highways under the Vehicle
Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which device has no value
other than scrap or salvage value and is either inoperable or does
not bear a valid up-to-date registration plate issued by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or other state.
Any private lot or area within the Township limits, whether
it be improved in any manner whatsoever or whether it be vacant.
Any and all streets, sidewalks, roads or other public ways
and all public parks, squares, spaces or grounds, including all grounds
owned by the Township or available for community use.
The Township of Upper Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
It shall be unlawful for any person to store
or continue to store an abandoned or junked vehicle or any parts thereof
on private premises or on a public place, except in a building or
structure, in a manner which is or may be injurious to the public
health, comfort or safety of the residents of the Township.
Any act in violation of the provisions of this
chapter shall be a public nuisance.
Any Township employee or appointee designated
by the Supervisors of the Township is hereby authorized and empowered
to notify any person violating the provisions of this chapter to either
abate said nuisance or remove and properly dispose of any abandoned
or junked vehicle located on private premises owned or occupied by
such person. Upon failure, neglect or refusal of any such person so
notified to properly abate said nuisance or to properly dispose of
said abandoned or junked vehicle within 10 days of the date of said
notice, the issuing party is hereby authorized and empowered to charge
said person with a summary offense as hereinafter provided.
A.
Any person violating any provisions of this chapter
shall be required to pay a fine not to exceed the sum of $1,000, which
fine may be collected by suit or summary proceeding brought in the
name of the Township before any Magisterial District Judge. Upon judgment
against any person by summary conviction or by proceedings by summons
on default of the payment of the fine imposed and costs, the defendant
may be sentenced and committed to the county jail or workhouse for
a period not exceeding 90 days.[1]
B.
Any person violating the terms of this chapter shall,
in addition to paying the fine and costs imposed hereby, shall pay
all costs incurred by the Township in abating said nuisance or in
removing the said abandoned or junked vehicle from said private premises
or public place; said costs may be collected in the manner provided
for the collection of municipal claims or by an action of assumpsit
without the filing of a claim.
