For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED STRUCTURE. Any structure which is not occupied by owners, tenants, licensees or others for 30 or more days.
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.
BOROUGH OF TOPTON. The Borough Council of the Borough of Topton, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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, backets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels, receptacles of any kind or other containers or devices which may hold water.
DILAPIDATED. Fallen into partial ruin or decay.
DISPOSAL. Includes the storage, collection, disposal or handling of refuse.
DWELLING. A building or structure used for residential purposes.
DWELLING UNIT. One or more rooms in a dwelling which room or rooms have fixed cooking facilities arranged for occupancy by one person, two or more persons living together or one family.
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 foods.
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 except, that in dwelling units a guest will not be considered an OCCUPANT.
OWNER. Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
(1) Has legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
(2) Has 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, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
REFUSE. All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage, ashes and rubbish.
RUBBISH. Includes glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible solid wastes.
STRUCTURE. Any building of any type including commercial, industrial, restaurant, bar and warehouse.
VECTOR. A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease or infection. VECTORS shall include, but not be limited to rats, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, ticks and the like.
VECTOR CONTROL OFFICER. Such person or agency or both, so designated by the borough.
VECTOR-PROOFING. A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of vectors to or from a given space or building or gaining access to food, water or harborage. This term shall include, but not be limited to rat-proofing, fly-proofing, mosquito-proofing and the like.
(Ord. 2-1983, passed 2-14-1983)