[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of Carroll Township 11-5-2003 by Ord. No. 52. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Carroll Township Nuisance Ordinance."
The following terms shall be defined as follows:
Any vehicle for the transportation of persons or property
on the highway carrying its own motive power and not operated on fixed
tracks.
Any animal or vegetable matter and other materials ordinarily
used for food, which have become unfit for such use.
Any natural person, partnership, firm or corporation.
Discarded articles, materials or refuse, whether combustible
or noncombustible, including trash and specifically including tires
and trailers, mobile homes and truck caps.
The following acts shall constitute an act of
nuisance within the Township.
A.Â
To leave, dump, accumulate or permit the leaving or
dumping, accumulation or storage of any garbage or rubbish unless
in a metal, weatherproof, rodentproof, lidded. closed container and
at a place to be collected in the ordinary course of business by a
trash hauler.
B.Â
To place at roadside, for collection by a trash hauler,
any trash or rubbish, bagged or otherwise more than 24 hours prior
to collection.
C.Â
To store more than three abandoned automobiles on
any public or private property in the Township. An automobile shall
be rebuttably presumed to be abandoned in the event it does not have
current registration and/or current inspection sticker properly placed
thereon.
D.Â
Permitting or allowing any well or cistern to be,
or remain, uncovered.
E.Â
To permit or create any other condition or nuisance,
which would be declared a nuisance at common law.
F.Â
To permit or allow any burning rubbish, fly ash or
debris from the burning of rubbish to blow or otherwise travel beyond
the boundary of the property upon which such rubbish is burned.
Any person causing or maintaining an act of
nuisance on any public or private property in Carroll Township shall,
after responsible notice to abate from the Enforcement Officer, remove
any such nuisance or suffer prosecution for a summary offense before
the District Justice.
Any person who violates provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction by the District Justice as provided by law,
be sentenced to a maximum of $1,000 fine and 90 days in jail. Whenever
such person shall have been notified by the Township Enforcement Officer,
or by service of summons in a prosecution, or in any other way, that
he or she has committed a violation of this chapter, each day that
he or she shall continue such violation after such notification shall
constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine or penalty.
