[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Radnor 2-25-1974 by Ord. No. 1564 as Ch. 83 of the 1974
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Solid waste — See Ch. 240.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any printed or written matter, leaflet, pamphlet or any other
printed or otherwise reproduced literature which advertises for sale
any merchandise, product, commodity or thing or which directs attention
to any business or mercantile establishment or which directs attention
to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance or an event of
any kind for which an admission fee is charged.
Any putrescible animal and vegetable waste, commonly known
as garbage; any putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, including
rubbish and refuse, such as ashes, street cleanings, dead animals,
abandoned automobiles and solid market and industrial waste, paper,
wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings, leaves,
wood, glass, bedding, crockery, trash and similar materials.
Any printed or written matter, circular, leaflet, pamphlet
or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of
any matter of literature not included in the aforesaid definition
of a commercial handbill.
No person, association, firm or corporation
shall do or permit to be done any of the following acts:
A.
Throw, place, leave or deposit any materials, items,
garbage, rubbish, tin cans, dead animals, decaying vegetable matter,
organic waste substance, plastic of any kind or other debris at the
recycling center located at the Township Building, except as follows:
[Amended 11-23-1987 by Ord. No. 87-39]
B.
Sweep or deposit in any gutter, street or other public
place within the Township any accumulation of litter from any building
or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons
owning or occupying property, including residences and places of business,
shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free of litter.
C.
Throw or deposit, while a driver or passenger in a
vehicle, litter upon any street or other public place within the Township
or upon private property.
D.
Drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the
Township unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent
any load, contents or litter from being blown or deposited upon any
street, alley or other public place.
E.
Deposit dirt on any public street from the wheels
of vehicles leaving construction sites, unless such dirt is removed
by 5:00 p.m. of the day on which the dirt was deposited.
F.
Throw or deposit commercial or noncommercial handbills
in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place, or hand out,
distribute or sell any commercial handbills or place the same in or
upon any vehicle in any public place, provided that it shall not be
unlawful on any sidewalk, street or other public place to distribute,
without charge, any noncommercial handbill to any person willing to
accept it.
G.
Throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial
handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited, except by
handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner, occupant
or other person then present in or upon such private premises.
H.
Post or affix any notice, poster or other paper or
device, calculated to attract the attention of the public, to any
lamppost, public utility pole or tree or upon any public structure
or building, except as may be authorized or required by law.
I.
Throw, deposit or permit the accumulation of litter
on private premises, both business and residential, within the Township,
whether owned by such person or not. The owner or person in control
of the private premises may maintain authorized private receptacles
for collection in such a manner that litter would be prevented from
being carried or deposited by the elements on any street, sidewalk
or other public place or upon any private property. The owners of
shopping centers are hereby required to install and maintain trash
receptacles on the pedestrian walkways within said shopping center.
These receptacles shall be placed at a maximum of 30 feet apart, unless
the Director of the Community Development Department determines this
distance is not practicable. The receptacles shall be clearly designated
as trash receptacles and the Director of the Community Development
Department shall have the authority to determine the adequacy of such
receptacles in terms of their type and number.
[Amended 6-29-1977 as Ord. No. 77-18]
J.
Throw or deposit litter upon any open or vacant private
premises or any inhabited premises, whether owned by such person or
not.
A.
The Director of the Community Development Department
is hereby authorized and empowered to notify the owner and/or occupant
of any open or vacant private premises or any occupied or unoccupied
private or business premises within the Township, or the agent of
such owner or occupant, to properly dispose of litter located on such
property. Such notice shall be by certified mail, addressed to said
owner and/or occupant at his last known address, or served personally
by the Director of the Community Development Department or his nominee
upon such owner or occupant.
[Amended 6-29-1977 as Ord. No. 77-18]
B.
Upon failure, neglect or refusal of any owner or occupant so notified to properly dispose of litter within three days after receipt of the written notice provided for in Subsection A above, or three days after the date of such notice in the event that the same is returned unserved, the said Director of Licenses and Inspections is hereby authorized and empowered to order the correction of such violation, using Township funds or Township personnel to accomplish such correction, and may charge the costs thereof to the violator. Collection of such costs by the Township may be made by lien or otherwise as authorized by law.
[Amended 11-28-1988 by Ord. No. 88-32; 7-20-1992 by Ord. No. 92-13]
Any person, firm, association or corporation who violates any provision of this chapter or fails to correct within the time hereinabove set forth the conditions for which complaint is made by the Township shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 30 days, and each day's failure to comply with any such provision shall constitute a separate violation. It shall not be necessary for the Township to give notice pursuant to the provisions of § 190-3 above in order to obtain a conviction for any of the prohibited acts in § 190-2 above.
