[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Pen Argyl 5-1-1972
by Ord. No. 364, approved 5-1-1972. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Council of the Borough of Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania,
or any officer or authorized representative thereof.
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 County Board of Health and
subject to applicable laws relating to poisonous substances and fumigants.
[Amended 5-17-1976 by Ord. No. 380,
approved 5-17-1976]
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 person who has the use or custody of the same or any
part thereof, whether an individual, partnership or corporation.
The treatment or shielding, with material impervious to rodent gnawing,
of all actual or potential openings in the exterior and interior 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 burrowing.
A.
All buildings, lots or premises within the corporate
limits of the Borough of Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, shall
be kept free from any condition conducive to rodent, insect and other pest
life. The person in control shall not allow the accumulation of automobiles
or trucks without current license plates or a current inspection sticker,
garbage, refuse or any material which may afford harborage or provide food
for rodents, insects or other pest life.
B.
Whenever conditions inside or under unoccupied buildings
provide extensive harborage for rats, the authorized representative of the
Borough Council is empowered, if said conditions are not corrected within
a period of 60 days after written notification to the owner, to institute
condemnation and demolition proceedings. The cost of such proceedings is to
be borne by the owner.
A.
No person in control shall feed wild birds other than
in a suitable, properly shielded container for the food, installed in such
a manner as to be inaccessible to rodents and to prevent the scattering of
food on the ground.
B.
No person shall place food in the open for feeding any
animal except in a container which will prevent the scattering of food upon
the ground. Unconsumed food shall not be allowed to remain where it is accessible
to rodents, insects or other pest life.
C.
Garbage and waste material shall be placed in nonleaking
metal 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.
D.
Whenever the authorized representative or officer of
the Borough Council notifies the occupant or occupants of a building in writing
that there is evidence of rat infestation on the premises, the said occupant
or occupants shall immediately institute rat-eradication measures and shall
continuously maintain such measures in a satisfactory manner until the premises
is declared by the authorized representative or officer of the Borough Council
to be free of rat infestation. Unless said measures are undertaken within
five days after receipt of notice, it shall be construed as a violation of
the provisions of this chapter and the occupant shall be held responsible
therefor.
A.
Whenever any building, lot or premises is subject to
infestation by rodents, insects or other pest life, the person in control
shall apply continuous or repeated eradication measures, as required by the
Borough Council, until there is no evidence of infestation remaining.
B.
No building shall be demolished until the authorized
representative or officer of the Borough Council certifies to the Borough
Council that the building and premises are free from the infestation of rodents,
insects or other pest life.
A.
Whenever conditions inside, outside or under a building
or on any lot or premises provide harborage for rodents, the Borough Council
may require any one or more buildings to be rodentproofed.
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. Whenever the rodentproofing is injured in
making alterations, installations, additions or repairs to the building, the
person in control shall restore the rodentproofing in good condition.
[Amended 5-17-1976 by Ord. No. 380,
approved 5-17-1976]
Any person in control who shall violate any provision or provisions
of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction,
shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 or imprisonment of not more
than 10 days, or both. Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed to the extent of such conflict only.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter
is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, void or invalid, the validity
of the remaining portions of this chapter shall not be affected thereby.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon its passage, the matter
being one of urgency and necessity and the public welfare requiring it.
