[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Caln 7-8-1975 by Ord. No. 1975-8. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Brush, grass and weeds — See Ch. 57.
Property maintenance standards — See Ch. 59.
Outdoor burning — See Ch. 64.
Dumps and junkyards — See Ch. 76.
Garbage, rubbish and refuse — See Ch. 87.
Housing standards — See Ch. 91.
Nuisances — See Ch. 103.
Parks and playgrounds — See Ch. 107.
Peace and good order — See Ch. 109.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 111.
A.
When not inconsistent with the context, words used in
the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include
the singular number, and words used in the singular number include the plural
number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
B.
GARBAGE
LITTER
PERSON
PRIVATE PREMISES
PUBLIC PLACE
PUBLIC STRUCTURE OR BUILDING
REFUSE
RUBBISH
TOWNSHIP
VEHICLE
As used in this chapter, the following words shall have
the meanings indicated:
Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking and consumption of food.
Garbage, refuse and rubbish as defined herein, and all other waste
material which, if thrown, deposited or stored as herein prohibited, tends
to create a danger to public health, safety and welfare.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company
or organization of any kind.
Any dwelling house, building or other structure designed or used
either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited
or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and includes any yard,
ground, walk, driveway, porch, steps or vestibule belonging or appurtenant
to such dwelling house, building or other structure.
Any street, sidewalk, alley or other public way, and any and all
public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.
Any structure or building owned or operated by the federal, county
or commonwealth government or any governmental agency.
All putrescible solid wastes (except body wastes), including garbage,
rubbish, ashes, street cleanings, dead animals and solid market and industrial
wastes.
Nonputrescible solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible
wastes, such as papers, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans, yard clippings,
leaves, wood, glass, bedding, crockery, building materials and similar materials.
The Township of Caln.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in or upon any street, sidewalk
or other public place within the Township except in public receptacles or
in authorized private receptacles for collection; provided, however, that
said public receptacles shall not be used by persons owning or occupying property
in the vicinity of said public receptacles for the deposit of domestic, commercial
and industrial litter arising from the conduct of activities on such property.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles or in authorized
private receptacles shall do so in such a manner as to prevent it from being
carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public
place.
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
of litter.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep into or
deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Township any
accumulation of litter, and all persons owning or occupying places of business
within the Township shall keep the sidewalk in front of their business premises
free of litter.
No person while a driver or passenger in a vehicle shall throw or deposit
litter upon any street or other public place within the Township.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle within the
Township unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any
load or contents of litter from being blown or deposited upon any street,
alley or other public place; nor shall any person drive or move any vehicle
or truck within the Township, the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit
in any street, alley or other public place any mud, dirt, sticky substances
or foreign matter of any kind.
No person shall throw or deposit litter in any fountain, pond, lake,
stream, bay or other body of water in a park or elsewhere within the Township.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the Township,
nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill
in any public place; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful on any
sidewalk, street or other public place within the Township for any person
to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, any noncommercial
handbill to any person willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any vehicle; provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in
any public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to
the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle
who is willing to accept it.
No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill
in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously uninhabited
or vacant.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial
handbill upon any private premises if requested by anyone thereon not to do
so or if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous position near the
entrance thereof a sign bearing the words "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisements"
or any similar notice indicating in any manner that the occupants of said
premises do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed
or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
No person in any aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the
Township any litter, handbill or any other object.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper or device
calculated to attract the attention of the public to any lamppost, public
utility pole or shade tree or upon any public structure or building, except
as may be authorized by the owners thereof or required by law.
No person shall throw, deposit or store litter on any occupied private
property within the Township, whether owned by such person or not, except
that the owner or person in control of private property may maintain authorized
private receptacles for collection and removal of same in such manner that
same shall not be unsightly and detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood.
The owner or person in control of any private property shall at all
times maintain the premises free of litter, particularly one or more automobile
bodies, frames or chassis, one or more automobiles unable to be self-propelled
or one or more abandoned automobiles; provided, however, that this section
shall not prohibit the storage of litter in authorized private receptacles
for collection.
No person shall throw or deposit litter on any open or vacant private
property within the Township, whether owned by such person or not.
[Amended 9-11-1990 by Ord.
No. 1990-3]
The Police Department, the Board of Commissioners or any officer or
employee of the Township designated thereby shall enforce the provisions of
this chapter by handing or sending by certified mail an appropriate notice
to every person violating any section aforesaid, notifying the person of the
violation and the date and time thereof and instructing said person that he
may, within 24 hours of the time when such notice is handed to or received
by him, pay to the Township of Caln at the Township Building, as a penalty,
the sum of $40. A copy of any notice of violation shall be maintained by the
issuer thereof.
[Amended 9-11-1990 by Ord.
No. No. 1990-3]
Any person violating the provisions of any section of this chapter shall, upon summary conviction thereof before an issuing authority having jurisdiction in the Township of Caln, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $300 and costs of prosecution, and in default thereof, be sentenced to imprisonment in the county prison for not more than five days, provided that payment of the sum of $40 to the Township of Caln within the time limit and under the circumstances provided by § 97-18 of this chapter shall save from prosecution any person making such payment.
