For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE. A detached structure which is not used or not intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located on or partially on any premises.
BREEDING AREA. Any condition which provides the necessary environment for the birth or hatching of vectors.
COLLECTION OF WATER. Water contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations, holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns, tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles, tubs, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels, receptacles of any kind or other containers or devices which may hold water.
COVERED RECEPTACLE. A container of metal, wood, heavy duty plastic or synthetic material of solid construction, with a tight-fitting cover secured against leakage.
DEP. Department of Environmental Protection, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
DILAPIDATED. Fallen into partial ruin or decay.
DISPOSAL. Storage, collection, disposal or handling of refuse.
EXTERMINATION. The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their harborage places; by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food; by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging, larviciding, trapping or by any other recognized and legal vector control elimination methods approved by the local or state authority having such administrative authority.
GARBAGE. All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking or consumption of food.
HARBORAGE. Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
OCCUPANT. Any person, over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking or eating in or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a rooming unit; in dwelling units, a guest will not be considered an OCCUPANT.
OWNER. Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others shall have:
(1) Legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; and
(2) Charge, care or control of any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, as owner or agent of the owner, or an executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate of the
OWNER. Any such person thus representing the actual OWNER shall be bound to comply with the provisions of this subchapter and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he or she were the owner.
PERSON. Any natural person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
REFUSE. All solid wastes, except human body wastes, and including handling of refuse.
RUBBISH. Glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or non-putrescible solid wastes.
VECTOR. A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease or infection, including, but not limited to, rats, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies and ticks.
VECTOR-PROOFING. A form of construction to prevent ingress or egress of vectors to or from a given space or building or gaining access to food, water or harborage, including, but not limited to, rat-proofing, fly-proofing and mosquito-proofing.
(2006 Code, § 10-401) (Ord. 90-4, passed 3-5-1990, § 1; Ord. 2006-3, passed 7-10-2006)