§ 243.13. Objectionable establishments and industrial wastes.
(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:
(1) Noxious gases, which are deleterious or detrimental to public health, to escape into the air.
(2) A substance which is deleterious or detrimental to public health to:
(i) Accumulate upon the premises.
(ii) Be thrown or allowed to discharge into any street, roadway or public place.
(iii) Be thrown or allowed to discharge into waters of this Commonwealth.
(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:
(1) If garbage is fed to pigs, provisions shall be made so that unconsumed garbage is removed daily and disposed of by burial or incineration.
(2) Garbage shall be handled and fed upon platforms of concrete or other impervious material.
(3) Unslaked lime, hypochlorite of lime, borax or mineral oil shall be used daily in sufficient quantities to prevent the breeding of vectors.
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