53 Pa. Stat. § 15022
The occupant or tenant of every dwelling, and of each apartment in a two-family house, the lessee or conductor of every rooming-house, and the conductor of every tenement-house, shall provide for each apartment under his supervision a suitable non-absorbent, non-leakable, covered receptacle for garbage, and a receptacle of approved kind for ashes. All occupants or tenants of buildings of the foregoing classes shall securely bundle all rubbish, waste paper, and like refuse, in such manner as to prevent it from causing a nuisance upon the property or upon the street when the collectors are taking it away. Garbage chutes shall not be constructed, maintained, nor used. Contractors or others removing refuse or other waste shall so handle it as to prevent it from escaping or becoming a nuisance on or to other properties or the public street.
53 P.S. § 15022