[Added by Ord. No.
5-28-1913B]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place a pile
of stone, lumber, brick, mortar beds, boxes, barrels, merchandise,
household goods, furniture or any other articles or things whatsoever
within a radius of four feet on the sidewalk or pavement and a radius
of 10 feet on the street or highway of any fire hydrant or plug within
the limits of said Borough of Manheim.
[Added by Ord. No.
5-28-1913B; amended 9-21-1955 by Ord. No. 282; 7-14-1992 by Ord. No. 524]
Any person or persons violating any provision of §
190-1 of this article shall, upon conviction thereof before the Magisterial District Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days.
It shall not be lawful for any person to willfully obstruct
or damage any watercourse or gutter along any street, lane or alley
in the Borough.
[Amended 9-21-1955 by Ord. No. 278]
All persons owning any property abutting upon any street or
alley in the Borough shall keep all trees overhanging such street
or alley trimmed so that no part thereof shall be closer than eight
feet above the surface of the sidewalk or 14 feet above the surface
of the street and so that no part of the roots or trunk shall extend
into the cartway, and shall maintain no permanent or temporary structure
or thing overhanging the sidewalk with any part thereof closer than
eight feet above the level of such sidewalk, provided that nothing
in this section shall authorize the construction or maintenance of
any overhanging thing that is prohibited by or does not conform to
the requirements of any other valid ordinance of the Borough.
[Amended 9-21-1955 by Ord. No. 278; 6-28-1966 by Ord. No. 371; 11-27-2018 by Ord. No. 660]
The owner, occupant or tenant of every property fronting upon
or alongside any of the streets or alleys of the Borough shall remove
or cause to be removed from all of the sidewalks in front of or alongside
of such property all snow or ice thereon fallen or formed within 24
hours after the same shall have ceased to fall or to be formed, or
after the same has been deposited thereon in any manner, so that a
pathway for pedestrians of not less than three feet in width is cleared,
provided that the owner of a property shall be responsible for carrying
out the requirements of this section where such property is occupied
by him or is unoccupied or where the property is a multiple-business
or multiple-dwelling property designed to be occupied by more than
one tenant; the tenant or occupier shall be responsible where such
property is occupied by such tenant only. No snow or ice removed from
any sidewalk for the pathway or removed by an owner, occupant or tenant
from any street or alley along any curb for a parking area for vehicles
or for other purposes shall be deposited at places in the streets
or alleys of the Borough which have been plowed or cleared of snow
or ice.
[Amended 6-28-1966 by Ord. No. 371]
Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution for each and
every violation and, in default of payment of such fine and costs,
undergo an imprisonment for a period of not more than 30 days, provided
that, in any case where any person or persons shall fail to remove
any obstruction or to remedy any condition prohibited by this article,
Borough Council may cause such obstruction to be removed or condition
to be remedied and the cost of such work, together with an additional
charge of 10%, shall be collected from such person or persons, which
may be in addition to any penalty imposed under this section.