[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Tredyffrin as Ch. VIII, Art. 1, § 103, of the 1979 General Laws
of the Municipality of Tredyffrin. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Tredyffrin Township
Anti-Littering Ordinance."
No person, firm, corporation or association shall throw or drop or cause
to be thrown or dropped or allow the following described litter to escape
from his, her, their or its premises upon any street or other public place
or upon the land of another: any garbage, bottles, wastepaper, cans, wood
cartons, ashes, metal or metal sweepings, wire, glass, handbills, cardboard,
boxes of any kind, nails, discarded or soiled personal property, trash or
rubbish of any kind; nor interfere with, scatter or disturb the contents of
any receptacle containing garbage, ashes, household wastes or rubbish which
has been placed upon any sidewalk or elsewhere for the collection of the contents
thereof.
No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other
public place within the township the accumulation of litter from any building
or lot or from any public or private sidewalk or driveway. Persons owning
or occupying property shall keep the sidewalk in front of their premises free
from litter. Persons owning or occupying places of business within the township
shall keep the sidewalk in front of their business free from litter.
[Amended 10-19-1998 by Ord.
No. HR-278; 10-2-2000 by Ord.
No. HR-290]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall
be guilty of a summary violation and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus all court costs, including reasonable
attorney's fees, incurred by the township in the enforcement of this chapter.
Each day a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. In default
of the payment of any fine, the defendant shall be sentenced to imprisonment
to the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses. Further,
the appropriate officers or agents of the township are hereby authorized to
seek any other available relief at law or equity, including injunction, to
enforce compliance with this chapter.
