[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of North East as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-2-1956 by Ord.
No. 7]
The following words, when used in this article, shall have the
meaning prescribed to them in this section except in those instances
when the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Tractors, tractor parts, trailers and trailer parts, machinery
and machinery parts outside of a fully enclosed building not in full
and complete working order, industrial by-products and waste of every
kind and nature, discarded lumbering and building materials, and all
kinds and sorts of material commonly classified as "junk."
Any automobile outside of a fully enclosed building not in
full and complete working order and without current registration plates
or any automobile stored for resale as junk metal or any automobile
outside of a fully enclosed building stored for selling parts therefrom.
Every natural person, association, partnership or corporation.
The single shall include the plural. Whenever used in connection with
prescribing or imposing a penalty, or both, the term as applied to
partnership shall mean the partner or any of them and as applied to
corporations or associations shall mean the officers thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, store, accumulate
or cause or allow to be dumped, stored or accumulated any junk on
any land, public or private, to store or cause or allow to be stored
abandoned or junked automobiles on public or private property or to
carry on any offensive manufacture or business or allow or cause to
be allowed the maintenance of any dangerous structure or excavation
within the limits of the Township of North East.
[Amended 3-4-1996 by Ord.
No. 1996-003; 6-7-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-004]
In the event any person shall violate any of the provisions
of this article, the Supervisors of North East Township, or their
designee, may order the removal of such nuisances or dangerous structures
from public or private ground, and, after 15 days' written notice
to the owners or occupants to do so and upon default of the owners
or occupants to abate such nuisances, the Supervisors of North East
Township, or their designee, may abate or remove the same and collect
the costs of such removal, together with the penalty of $500, from
the owners or occupants.
A.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article shall,
upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution.
In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that
such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this article that is violated
shall also constitute a separate offense.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
The dumping, storage or accumulation of junk, the storage of abandoned
or junked automobiles, the carrying on of any offensive manufacture
or business, or the allowing of any dangerous structure or excavation
in violation hereof shall constitute a separate offense for each day
the condition is allowed to exist.
C.
All fines levied, assessed and paid under the terms of this article
shall be payable to the Treasurer of the Township of North East for
the general use of the Township.
