Pennsylvania Code
Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part I - Department of Environmental Protection
Subpart D - Environmental Health and Safety
Article VI - General Health and Safety
Chapter 243 - NUISANCES
Section 243.13 - Objectionable establishments and industrial wastes
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) A person maintaining a slaughterhouse, rendering works, depository of dead animals, glue works, tannery, wool-washing establishment, paper mill, byproduct coke oven, dye works, oil refinery, dairy, creamery, cheese factory, milk station or similar establishment; or engaged in the manufacture of gas chemicals, explosives, fertilizers or similar products; or in the business of soapmaking, fish oil extraction, bone boiling or a similar occupation, may not allow any of the following:
(b) Slaughterhouses, rendering works, bone boiling establishments, depositories for dead animals, garbage disposal works, piggeries and similar establishments handling organic matters shall have an adequate water supply for the purpose of keeping the place clean and sanitary. Floors shall be constructed of concrete or other impervious material, and shall have adequate provision for drainage to a cesspool, to a sewer or to a treatment works approved by the Department.
(c) A pigsty or piggery may not be built or maintained on marshy ground or land subject to overflow, nor where it may prejudicially affect a water supply, nor where, as a source of vector breeding, it may become a menace to the public health, particularly in the following circumstances: