[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Jackson 5-6-2003 by Ord. No. 138-03.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Nuisance Ordinance."
No person, firm, corporation or any other legal entity shall do any act or omit to perform any act or duty or permit a condition or thing to exist, which act, omission, condition or thing is defined in § 84-3 as a nuisance.
The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby
defined and declared to be nuisances, which include the erecting, maintaining,
using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain in or upon
any private lot, building, structure or premises, or in or upon any street,
avenue, alley, parkway or other private or public place in the Township, or
any one or more of the following disordered, disturbing, unsanitary, fly-producing,
rat-harboring, disease-causing places, conditions or things:
A.
Any putrid, unsound or unwholesome bones, meat, hides,
skins of the whole or any part of dead animal, fish or fowl.
B.
Vaults, cesspools, dumps, pits of like places which are
not securely protected from flies or rats, or which are foul or malodorous.
C.
Filthy, littered or trash-covered house yards, factory
yards, vacant areas in rear or stores, vacant lots, houses, buildings or premises.
D.
Animal manure in any quantity which is not securely protected
from flies and the elements.
E.
Stagnant water in pools in which mosquitoes, flies or
insects multiply.
F.
Weeds or plants which provide rodent harborage, or weeds
or plants which are poisonous or noxious growing in yards, vacant lots or
along public streets in the Township, which may pollute the neighborhood or
menace health.
G.
Tin cans, bottles, glass, cans, ashes, small pieces of
scrap iron, wire metal articles, bric-a-brac, broken stone or trash or abandoned
material, unless the same is kept in covered bins or receptacles approved
by the Township.
H.
Any and all places used as dumping ground or for the
wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, vehicles or machinery
of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn out, wrecked or abandoned
automobiles, trucks, tractors, vehicles or machinery of any kind, or of any
of the parts thereof, which such places are kept so as to interfere with the
comfortable enjoyment of life or property by others.
I.
Trash, litter, upholstered furniture, rags, accumulation
of empty barrels, boxes, carts, packing crates, mattresses, bedding, excelsior,
packing hay, straw or other packing material, lumber not neatly piled, scrap
iron, tin or other metal not neatly piled or anything in which flies or rats
may breed or multiply or which may be a fire danger, unused and discarded
household goods and appliances.
J.
All refrigerators and freezers shall have all doors removed
while placed outside for any purpose in order to prevent access to any individual,
wherein possible physical harm or injury or death may result.
Jackson Township, or any officer, employee or agent thereof including,
but not limited to, the Jackson Township Zoning Officer, is hereby authorized
to notify any owner or occupant of any said property, personally or by United
States regular mail or by positing such notice upon the premises, to remove
or eliminate any nuisance on said person's property within 10 days of the
date of the notice. Upon the failure of such owner or occupant to comply with
the Township's orders within such period of time, the Township Supervisors,
the Jackson Township Zoning Officer, or any officer, employee or agent of
the Jackson Township is hereby authorized and directed, at its option, to
enter upon such premises and remove and eliminate the nuisance contained thereon.
The cost of such entry, removal or elimination, together with a penalty of
10 percent of the amount thereof, shall be paid by such owner or occupant
within 10 days from the date of notification of the cost and penalty. In the
event the owner or occupier refuses to pay the cost and penalty, the same
shall be filed and entered as a lien against said premises and shall be collected
in the manner provided by law for the collection of municipal liens.
Any person violating any of the terms or provisions of this chapter
shall be subject to a fine in a sum not less than $50 and not exceeding $600
in proceedings commenced by the Township before any district justice. Each
day's violation shall constitute a separate offense for the purpose of commencing
proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by conviction, or by proceedings
by summons or default of the fine imposed and costs, said person may be sentenced
to York County Jail for a period not to exceed 30 days. This remedy is cumulative
with any and all other remedies set forth in this chapter.
This chapter shall be effective immediately upon enactment.
