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The provisions of this Part shall not apply to such a vehicle that is enclosed or stored in a building, or to a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise when it is necessary to the operation of the business or to a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository unless such storage constitutes or contributes to a safety, health or fire hazard, or has become a public nuisance.
(Ord. 1996-1, 6/13/1996, § 5)
No owner or responsible person shall perform or permit another person to perform mechanical repairs upon any vehicle while it is parked or left standing on any Township streets, highways or alleys.
A. Major repairs are those that require the changing of a motor transmission, drive shafts, exhaust systems, the changing of vehicle fluids or the changing of body parts.
B. Exception: this Section does not apply to emergency repairs such as the changing of a flat tire, or to the duties of tow truck drivers and operators in order to prepare a vehicle to be moved or towed to a place of repair.
C. No vehicle shall leak fluids upon Township streets, highways, alleys or public or private properties:
(1) The owner or responsible person shall clean the roadway in the event of vehicular leakage in order to deter health and safety hazards or public nuisances. Fluids shall include gasoline, diesel fuels, transmission oils, motor oils, anti-freeze and differential fluids.
(2) Cleaning shall consist of the washing down of the roadway for some fluids and the use of sand, sawdust or other absorbent material to collect any oily based fluids and the proper disposal of the material.
(Ord. 1996-1, 6/13/1996, § 6)
No person or responsible person shall allow any violation of this Part to occur on his or her property. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Part shall, upon conviction, pay all fines and costs set forth within this Part.
(Ord. 1996-1, 6/13/1996, § 7)
The owner or responsible person that has received a parking ticket for any of the aforementioned violations in this Part shall pay a fine of $100 if paid within seven days. Failure to pay the parking ticket in the required time shall result in the filing of a non-traffic citation and then, upon conviction, the owner or responsible person shall pay a fine of not less than $300 nor more than $1,000, plus the costs of prosecution and/or up to 30-days’ imprisonment. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 1996-1, 6/13/1996, § 8; as amended by A.O.; Ord. 2017-4, 8/10/2017)
Part 5
Nuisances
Nuisances
For the purposes of this Part:
Nuisance–as any person doing an unlawful act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or thing either:
(1) Injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others; or
(2) Offends decency; or
(3) Is offensive to the senses; or
(4) Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous for passage any public or private street, highway, sidewalk, stream, ditch or drainage; or
(5) In any way renders other persons insecure in life or the use of property; or
(6) Essentially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property, or tends to depreciate the value of the property of others.
(Ord. 1996-2, 6/13/1996, § 1; Ord. 2014-1, 1/9/2014, § 1)
The maintaining, using, placing, depositing, leaving or permitting to be or remain on any public or private property of any of the following items, conditions or actions are hereby declared to be and constitute a nuisance; provided, however, this enumeration shall not be deemed or construed to be conclusive, limiting or restrictive:
A. Weeds, grass or other rank vegetation to a height greater than eight inches on average.
B. Accumulation of dead weeds, grass or brush.
C. Poison ivy, ragweed or other poisonous plants, or plants detrimental to health growing on any lot in such a manner that any part of such vegetation shall extend upon, overhang or border any neighboring property or such as to allow seed, pollen or other poisonous particles or emanations therefrom to be carried through the air into any public place.
D. Trees, shrubs, plants or vegetation which overhangs any sidewalk or street, or which grown thereon in a manner as or obstruct or impair the free and full use of the sidewalk or street by the public, including the interruption or interference with the clear vision of pedestrians or persons operating vehicles thereon. Such obstruction impairment or interference with clear vision shall be determined at the sole discretion by the Township Official called to inspect any such condition.
E. Trees, shrubs, plants or vegetation which interferes with electrical poles, wires, pipes or fixtures, or the roots of which interfere with or cause the surface of the street, sidewalk or curb to be up heaved or disturbed.
F. Accumulation of rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and other abandoned materials, metals, lumber or other things.
G. Any condition which provides harborage for rats, mice, snakes and other vermin.
H. Any building or other structure which is in such a dilapidated condition that it is unfit for human habitation, or kept in such an unsanitary condition that it is a menace to the health of people residing in the vicinity thereof, or presents a more than ordinarily dangerous fire hazard in the vicinity where it is located.
I. All unnecessary or unauthorized noises and annoying vibrations, including animal noises.
J. All disagreeable or obnoxious odors and stenches, as well as the conditions, substances or other causes which give rise to the emission or generation of such odors and stenches.
K. The carcasses of animals or fowl not disposed of within a reasonable time after death.
L. The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, dead animals, creamery, industrial wastes or other substances.
M. Any building, structure or other place or location where any activity which is in violation of local, state or federal law is conducted, performed or maintained.
N. Any accumulation of stagnant water permitted or maintained on any lot or piece of ground.
O. Dense smoke, noxious fumes, gas, soot or cinders, in unreasonable quantities.
(Ord. 1996-2, 6/13/1996, § 2; Ord. 2014-1, 1/9/2014, § 2; Ord. 2014-5, 8/14/2014, § 1)
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