[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Matamoras as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-13-1905 by Ord. No. 16, approved 5-15-1905]
[Added 1-6-1981[1]]
A.
It shall be unlawful to house, feed or otherwise harbor
any wild animal or dangerous reptile. It shall further be unlawful
to house, feed or otherwise harbor any farm animal or fowl, such as
but not limited to sheep, goats, swine, cows, horses, chickens, ducks
and geese.
B.
This section shall in no way apply to any domesticated
dog, cat, fish, caged birds, such as parrots and canaries, etc., pet
turtles or caged rodents, such as hamsters and gerbils, etc.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance superseded former
§ 78-1, Standing of animals and vehicles in streets.
No person shall allow within the borough any
wastewater to flow into the streets or avenues or upon or over any
sidewalks, but the same shall be carried by or through such pipes
as shall be approved by the Council.
No person shall put upon any of the streets,
avenues or sidewalks of this borough any earth, dirt, ashes, paper
or other substance, without first having obtained from the Council
of said borough a permit for that purpose.
A.
No person shall deposit loose paper in the streets
or avenues or leave the same in such condition that the same may become
loosened, scattered or blown upon the streets or avenues of this borough.
B.
No person shall deposit any ashes, wire, glass, tins
or any other rubbish in the streets or avenues of this borough.
No person, company, corporation or their employees
shall open, dig or in any way disturb any street, avenue or sidewalk
within this borough, without first applying to the Street Commissioner
and securing permission from the majority of Council, which permission
to dig in or upon said street, avenue or sidewalk shall be in writing.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Original Sections 10, 12, 14 and 16 of Ordinance No. 16, which appeared between §§ 78-5 and 78-8, and which prohibited gambling in the streets, distribution of certain medical advertisements and samples and the operation of unmuffled stationary engines, were repealed at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Article I. Former § 78-6, Keeping of swine near residences restricted, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 1-6-1981. Said ordinance also provided for the renumbering of former §§ 78-7 through 78-12 to §§ 78-6 through 78-11 respectively.
No person shall distribute or cause to be distributed
any circular, handbill or pamphlet whatsoever except that the same
are left in the hands of some person at a house, store or other public
building.
No handbill, advertisement, poster, circular
or other notice to the public shall be posted on trees, telegraph
poles, telephone poles, electric light poles or fences within the
borough, without the consent of Council first having been obtained.
[Amended 2-2-1993 by Ord. No. 235]
No person shall keep or suffer to remain on
premises owned, occupied or under his control dead carcasses, garbage,
offal, putrid matter or nauseous or other offensive matter, nor shall
the same be cast upon any vacant lot, street or avenue within the
borough, but the same shall be removed beyond the borough limits.
No person shall throw or cause to be thrown
into the Delaware River or on or down the bank of the same any offensive
matter or thing or any thing that will decay and cause an offensive
odor, and nothing shall be deposited in the river or on or down its
bank in front of any person's premises without the consent of the
owner thereof nor at the street's end without the consent of the Street
Commissioner.
No telephone, telegraph or electric light wires
shall be hung at a height less than eighteen (18) feet clear of the
ground.
[Amended 12-30-1975 by Ord. No. 174, approved 12-30-1974; 9-6-1988 by Ord. No.
217]
Any person who shall violate any provisions
of this Article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.) and costs of
such proceedings or, upon default of payment of such fines and costs,
by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than thirty
(30) days. The continuation of such violation for each successive
day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons
allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished
as provided above for each separate offense.
[Adopted 3-1-1955 as Ord. No. 104, approved 3-1-1955]
The following manufacturing, arts, trades or
businesses are hereby declared to be noxious and offensive to the
inhabitants of the Borough of Matamoras, Pike County, Pennsylvania,
and are unlawful and prohibited. The same may not be carried on, conducted,
established or maintained, permitted or allowed on any private or
public property within the borough limits:
A.
Slaughterhouses, stockyards and piggeries.
B.
All chemicals and flammable and noxious gases.
C.
Rendering plants.
D.
Explosives, fireworks and all flammable or dangerous
articles.
E.
Storage of scrap metal, scrapped, abandoned, wrecked,
junked motor vehicles or motor vehicles out of service or use, and
all parts thereof.
F.
Junkyards which shall include but not be limited to the trade or business mentioned in Subsection E.
G.
Tanning of leather.
The aforesaid manufacturing, trades, arts or
businesses are declared to be a public nuisance, and the owner, tenant,
occupier, person, firm, corporation or any other legal entity operating
the same, upon ten (10) days' written notice from the Borough Council,
shall be required to remove the same, and in default thereof the borough
may cause the same to be done and collect the costs thereof, together
with a penalty of ten percent (10%) of such costs, in the manner provided
by law for the collection of municipal claims or by an action of assumpsit
and may seek relief by a bill in equity.
[Added 5-6-1997 by Ord. No. 252[1]]
It shall be unlawful and it is hereby prohibited
for any persons, firm or corporation to store, sell, offer or expose
for sale or have in possession with intent to sell, or use, discharge
or cause to be discharged, ignited, fired or otherwise set in action,
within the limits of the Borough of Matamoras, any fireworks, firecrackers,
rockets, sparklers, torpedoes, Roman candles, fire balloons or other
fireworks or substance of any combination thereof.
[Added 5-6-1997 by Ord. No. 252]
It shall also be unlawful and it is hereby prohibited
for any person, persons, firm or corporation to discharge any rifle,
gun, pistol, revolver, cane, cannon or other appliance, whether projecting
or exploding any bullet cartridge, blank cartridge cap or otherwise
or any explosive substance or mixtures of chlorates or nitrates.
[Added 7-1-1997 by Ord. No. 253[1]]
The Borough Council by resolution duly adopted
may, in its sole and absolute discretion, give special permission
to a licensed fireworks expert who is bonded to the satisfaction of
Borough Council to bring in fireworks to the Borough and to manage,
oversee and operate a fireworks display, subject, nevertheless, to
such conditions as the Council may deem appropriate.
[Amended 12-30-1975 by Ord. No. 174, approved 12-30-1974; 9-6-1988 by Ord. No.
217]
Any person who shall violate any provisions
of this Article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a
fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of such proceedings or, upon
default of payment of such fines and costs, by imprisonment in the
county jail for a term of not more than 30 days. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate
offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
