[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
This Part shall be known as the "Vector Control Ordinance."
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
For the purpose of this Part the following definitions shall
apply:
A detached structure which is not used or not intended to
be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located
on or partially on any premises.
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
Those contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations,
holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns,
tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles,
tubs, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels,
receptacles of any kind, or other containers or devices which may
hold water.
Fallen into partial ruin or decay.
The storage, collection, disposal, or handling of refuse.
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their
harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that
may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging,
larviciding, trapping, or by any other recognized and legal vector
control elimination methods approved by the local or state authority
having such administrative authority.
All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking, or consumption of foods.
Any place where vectors can live, nest, or seek shelter.
Any person, over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking,
or eating in, or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or
a rooming unit; except that in dwelling units a guest will not be
considered an occupant.
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
Shall have legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof.
Shall have charge, care, or control of any premises, dwelling
or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or an executor,
administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any
such person thus representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply
with the provisions of this Part and of the rules and regulations
adopted pursuant hereto, to the same extent as if he were the owner.
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage,
ashes and rubbish.
Glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood, or non-putrescible
solid wastes.
A rodent, arthropod, or insect capable of transmitting a
disease or infection. Vectors shall include, but not be limited to,
rats, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, ticks, etc.
A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of
vectors to or from a given space or building or gaining access to
food, water or harborage. This term shall include, but not be limited
to, rat proofing, fly proofing, mosquito proofing, etc.
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit
any refuse, offal, pomace, dead animals, decaying matter, or organic
substance of any kind in or upon any private lot, building, structure,
accessory structure, premises, or in or upon any street, avenue, alley,
parkway, ravine, ditch, gutter, or into any of the waters of the Commonwealth
so that same shall or may afford food, harborage, or breeding areas
for rats, flies or other vectors.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to deposit
or permit to accumulate in or upon any premise, improved or vacant,
or on any open lot or alley, any lumber, boxes, barrels, bottles,
cans, glass, scrap iron, wire, metal articles, pipe, broken stone
or cement, broken crockery, broken plaster, or rubbish of any kind,
unless the same may be kept in approved covered receptacles or placed
on open racks that are elevated not less than 18 inches above the
ground, and evenly piled or stacked, or disposed of as may be approved
by the Department of Environmental Resources.
3.
It shall be unlawful to maintain a junkyard or a place for the dumping
or wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or
machinery of any kind or for the storing or leaving of dilapidated,
wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of
any kind or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving
of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by
other persons which said places afford harborage or breeding areas
for rats or other vectors.
4.
It shall be unlawful to dump, bury, destroy or otherwise dispose
of refuse except at an approved refuse disposal site,
5.
It shall be unlawful to collect, haul, transport or convey garbage
in open, unenclosed, non-leakproof vehicles.
6.
It shall be unlawful to construct, maintain, or use a sewage system,
privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement so
that vectors may have access to the excrementitious matter contained
therein.
7.
It shall be unlawful to have, keep, maintain, cause or permit any
collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed
or are likely to breed, unless such collection of water is treated
or maintained so as effectually to prevent such breeding.
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
1.
Every owner of a dwelling containing two or more dwelling units shall
maintain in a clean and sanitary condition the shared or public areas
of the dwelling and premises thereof.
2.
Every occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit shall maintain in a
clean and sanitary condition that part or those parts of the dwelling,
dwelling unit and premises thereof that he occupies and controls.
3.
Every occupant of a dwelling containing a single dwelling unit shall
be responsible for the extermination of insects and/or rodents on
the premises; and every occupant of a dwelling unit in a dwelling
containing more than one dwelling unit shall be responsible for such
extermination whenever his dwelling unit is the only one infested.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, whenever
infestation is caused by failure of the owner to maintain a dwelling
in a rodent-proof or reasonable inspect-proof condition, extermination
shall be the responsibility of the owner. Whenever infestation exists
in two or more of the dwelling units in any dwelling, or in the shared
or public parts of any dwelling units in any dwelling, or in the shared
or public parts of any dwelling containing two or more dwelling units,
extermination shall be the responsibility of the owner.
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
1.
Any dwelling, building, structure, accessory structure, premises
or any other place may be required to be vectorproofed when found
to be providing harborage or breeding areas for rats, flies, mosquitoes,
or any other vectors.
2.
It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, contractor, public
utility company, plumber, or any other person to remove and fail to
restore in like condition the vector proofing from any building, structure
or accessory structure for any purpose.
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
A program plan and specifications for private vector control
programs may be required to be submitted to the Borough as deemed
necessary by the vector control program director. Said program plan
shall be submitted by the owner or agent of the property on or in
which said vector control program is or will be conducted. The program
plan shall state the type of vectors to be controlled, the name of
the company contracted to carry out the program, and any and all work
to be conducted in an effort to control said vectors. If, after review
of the program plan by the Vector Control Program Director, it is
found to be inadequate or incomplete, additional information may be
required as well as additional control methods.
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982]
1.
From and after passage of this Part, the Borough and/or a representative
of the vector control program is empowered to make inspections of
the interior and exterior of all dwellings, buildings, structures,
and accessory structures, premises, collections of water, or any other
places to determine full compliance with this Part, and to determine
evidence of vector infestation and the need for vectorproofing or
additions or repairs to existing vectorproofing.
2.
Whenever it shall be determined that any dwelling, building, structure,
accessory structure, premise, collection of water, or any other place
is in violation of this Part, a notice shall be issued setting forth
the alleged violations, and advising the owner, occupant, operator,
or agent that such violations must be corrected. The time for the
correction of said violations must be given as well as the necessary
methods to be employed in the corrections.
3.
Whenever said violations shall fail to be corrected within the time
set forth, and an extension of this time is not deemed to be necessary,
the Borough may proceed to abate the said violations in the manner
provided by the law.
[Ord. No. 248, 9/14/1982; as amended by Ord. No. 288, 8/8/1994]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not more than $600 plus costs and, in default of payment of
said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days.
Every day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
