[Adopted as Ch. 103, Art. II, of the 1975
Code]
For the purposes of this Article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
That which is set up, maintained or continued so as to be
injurious to the health or an obstruction to the use of property by
interfering with the repose, health, safety or life of the public.
Includes all streams and springs and all bodies of surface
and of ground water, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries
of the state.
A.
No privy, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement
shall be constructed, maintained or used so that flies have or may
have access to the excrementitious matter contained therein.
B.
No privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for
human excrement shall be constructed, maintained or used which directly
or indirectly drains or discharges over or upon the surface of the
ground.
C.
All privies, urinals, cesspools or other receptacles
for human excrement shall be cleansed at sufficiently frequent intervals
to prevent the contents from overflowing.
A.
No garbage, pomace, offal, dead animals, decaying
matter or organic waste substance of any kind shall be thrown or deposited
in any ravine, ditch or gutter, on any street or highway, into any
waters of the state or be permitted to remain exposed upon the surface
of the ground.
B.
Manure shall not be allowed to accumulate in or near
any stable unless it is adequately protected against the breeding
of flies, and all manure shall be removed by the person, partnership,
firm or corporation maintaining a stable before such manure shall
become a public or common nuisance. The Health Officer of the borough
is hereby authorized to notify any such person, partnership, firm
or corporation to remove any such manure within 24 hours of such notice,
and, in default thereof, the Health Officer may cause the same to
be removed and the borough may collect the cost, with an additional
charge of 10%, from the person, partnership, firm or corporation to
whom or which such notice was directed.
C.
The carcass of any dead animal shall be removed and
disposed of by burial, incineration or other proper method within
24 hours after death. If the carcass is buried, it shall be placed
so that every part shall be covered by at least two feet of earth.
Proper disposal shall be made by the owner of the animal. Where the
owner of the animal is unknown and the carcass is found upon any street,
alley or other public place, it shall be removed and disposed of by
the Board of Health at public expense.
No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained
any privy vault, cesspool, well, cistern or other receptacle containing
water in such a condition that mosquitoes may breed therein.
No person, partnership, firm or corporation
maintaining a slaughterhouse, rendering works, dye works, dairy, creamery,
cheese factory, milk station or similar establishment shall allow
any noxious exhalation, odors or gases that are deleterious or detrimental
to public health to escape into the air or any substance that is deleterious
or detrimental to public health to accumulate upon the premises or
be thrown or allowed to discharge into any street, roadway or public
place or be thrown or allowed to discharge into any stream or other
waters of the state.
No owner, partnership, firm or corporation shall
permit any cellar vault, cellar door or other excavation, material
excavated or obstruction on or adjoining any street, alley or sidewalk
within this borough to remain open or exposed without having same
secured by a temporary fence or covering or by putting up a danger
signal consisting of a red light between sunset and sunrise.
It shall be unlawful to keep or suffer to remain
on the premises owned or occupied or used by any person, firm or corporation
any decaying or offensive or unwholesome matter of any kind or to
dump or throw any ashes, tin cans or rubbish or to place material
of any sort on any such premises so that the placing of the same may
become injurious to health or become a harboring or breeding place
for rats or to permit the same or any of the above on any vacant lot
or in any stream or highway adjoining any such premises.
[Amended 8-26-1991 by Ord. No. 413]
Any person, partnership, firm or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this Article shall, upon conviction
thereof before any District Justice, be subject to a fine of not more
than $600 for each offense, and, in default of the payment of said
fine and costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned for a period not
exceeding 30 days.
