(A) Owners, agents, occupants or lessees, whose property faces or connects with a county road or street shall be responsible for keeping that property free of litter. It shall be unlawful to push, sweep or dump litter onto or next to any road or street. Conditions which violate this subchapter are hereby declared a nuisance. On order from the Township Board, any owner, occupant or person in control of any land which is declared a nuisance shall abate within five days. If said conditions is not abated within the said time, the Township Board shall have a lien upon such land until all expenses incurred in the abatement are paid by the owner or owners of such land.
(B) Any person, firm or corporation having debris disposed of on their property by another person, and can prove it not to be theirs shall have the property cleaned by the township, with no cost occurred upon the property owner, firm or corporation.
(C) Any person, firm or corporation caught disposing debris on another person’s property will be fined.
(D) It shall be the duty of every person distributing commercial handbills, leaflets, flyers or any other information material to take whatever measures that may be necessary to keep such material from littering public or private property.
(E) It shall be the duty of the nonresident owner of a vacant property to appoint a resident agent who shall have responsibility for keeping that lot or other property free of litter.
(Prior Code, § 20.204) (Ord. 5-11-83, eff. 6-10-1983; Ord. passed 5-18-1998) Penalty, see § 90.99