As used in this chapter:
(a) Emergency Situation. "Emergency situation" means any situation involving a hazardous condition, nuisance or obstruction wherein there exists a reasonable possibility of imminent or immediate danger or harm to the public health, safety or welfare, or to any individual.
(Ord. 310. Passed 8-21-95.)
(b) Enforcement Official. "Enforcement Official" means the Township Supervisor or Building Department Superintendent and/or their designee or designees.
(Ord. 319. Passed 12-22-97.)
(c) Noxious Weeds or Plants. "Noxious weeds or plants" means those weeds or plants defined as such by statute or established as such by resolution of Council.
(d) Nuisance. "Nuisance" means any public nuisance, known as such at common law or in equity jurisprudence, and whatever is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health. Further, "nuisance" means any condition or activity which is unwholesome, dangerous, offensive or unhealthy, which constitutes a menace to the health and safety of the public, or any structure which, due to a structural defect or dilapidation, has become dangerous to life or property.
"Nuisance" includes, but is not limited to:
(1) Unsanitary disposal of litter, including garbage, waste, peelings of vegetables or fruits, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, parts of automobiles, wagons, furniture, glass, oil of an unsightly or unsanitary nature, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature;
(2) Unburied dead animals;
(3) The accumulation of water causing mosquito or other vector breeding or proliferation;
(4) Rodent or insect infestation;
(5) The accumulation of bees, fowl, bats, wasps or other venomous pests or animals in such a manner as to create a condition that may be injurious to the public health or safety;
(6) Hazards, such as open excavations, open wells, pits, trees or parts thereof in danger of falling on any street, sidewalk or portion of a public right of way, discarded refrigerators and freezers with doors attached, unsecured vacant structures or habitation for bats, wasps or other venomous pests;
(7) Allowing bird infestation within a dwelling or bird roost conditions that are conducive to an unhealthful or disease-causing condition;
(8) The growth of noxious weeds or plants which are about to spread or mature seeds;
(9) Obstructions, as defined in subsection (e) hereof.
(e) Obstruction. "Obstruction" means any structure, vessel, vehicle, tree, bush, shrub, hedge, vine or other plant growth or any other object, or any collection of debris, litter or other objects or substances, which endangers the public health or the safety of any person, or which constitutes an interference or hazard to the lawful use of the waters, railroads, streets, sidewalks or other public ways in the Township.
(f) Owner. "Owner" means and includes both the owner or part owner of property on which a nuisance is located, and the occupant or lessee of such property if the property is leased, where such occupant or lessee is responsible, in whole or in part, for creating or maintaining the nuisance. The legal owner of such property shall, in all events, be responsible for the cost of removing, repairing, abating or obviating such nuisance, and, where applicable, a lessee or occupant shall share mutual responsibility with the owner for such costs.
(g) Person. "Person" means and includes any individual, partnership, firm, corporation or other legal entity.