Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 24691. Removal of garbage, etc.

The director of the department of public safety in every such city, with the approval of the councils thereof, shall have power and authority to enter into a contract or contracts with such parties as may be found necessary, for the removal of all offal, garbage and swill from private premises and for the disposal of the same.  The bureau of health shall cause a printed notice to be left at each and every hotel, tavern, eating-house and dwelling house in the city, stating that a scavenger will call for offal, garbage and swill at certain times mentioned in the notice, and requiring that such offal, garbage and swill be ready in prescribed and suitable vessels for the scavenger when he calls for the same, and a copy of this section shall be appended to such notice.  Any person who shall, after notice, neglect or refuse to have the offal, garbage or swill upon his or her premises ready for the scavenger in the manner and at the time mentioned in said notice, shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each and every day such offal, garbage or swill shall remain on such premises after the same shall have been called for by the scavenger.