ORDINANCE ON GARBAGE

Part 1, Garbage Accumulation

§101. Dumping Prohibited.

No person shall store or dump garbage, rubbish, or other offensive matters or otherwise deposit or permit to be deposited, any garbage, rubbish, or other offensive matters to be placed or to remain upon any private or public property or upon any public street, highway, alley or sidewalks. (Ord. 61-1, 7/29/1961, §1)

§102. Junkyards Exempt.

No person shall openly store, accumulate or otherwise suffer to store or accumulate for any commercial purpose or otherwise, any junk or abandoned or disabled automobiles or vehicles upon any private or public property or upon any public street, highway, alley or sidewalks; providing, however, that any person now maintaining or having heretofore established a commercial junkyard or any person who shall hereinafter be licensed to establish a commercial junkyard shall be exempt from the prohibition of this section. (Ord. 61-1, 7/29/1961, §2)

§103. Penalties.

Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense. (Ord. 61-1, 7/29/1961, §3; as amended by Ord. 1985-2, 8/12/1985; as amended by Ord. 97-5, 11/19/1997)