[Ord. 154, 7/10/1967; as revised by Ord. 356, 12/17/1986]
As used in this part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
any other legal entity.
Portion of a street between the curblines or the lateral
lines of a cartway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use
by pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel.
[Ord. 154, 7/10/1967; as revised by Ord. 356, 12/17/1986]
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of
land fronting or abutting on a paved sidewalk, whether as owner, tenant,
occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall remove and clear away or cause
to be removed or cleared away snow and/or ice from a path of at least
30 inches in width from so much of said sidewalk as is in front of
or abuts on said building or lot of land.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within 12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.
In the event snow and/or ice on a sidewalk has become so hard that it cannot be removed without likelihood of damage to the sidewalk, the person charged with its removal shall, within the time mentioned in Subsection A hereof, cause enough sand or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk to make travel reasonably safe and shall, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause to be cleared a path in said sidewalk of at least 30 inches in width.
[Ord. 154, 7/10/1967; as revised by Ord. 356, 12/17/1986]
Every person in charge or control of any building or other structure,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or otherwise, shall remove
and clear away, or cause to be removed and cleared away, any accumulation
of snow and ice on said building or other structure which is liable
to fall on any sidewalk, roadway or other public way. Such work shall
be completed within a reasonable time, but not later than 12 hours
after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
[Ord. 154, 7/10/1967; as revised by Ord. 356, 12/17/1986]
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway
or loading and unloading areas of a public transportation system,
except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Township on public
cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident
to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. 356, 12/17/1986; as amended by Ord. 532, 9/10/2008]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than
$1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation
of this part continues or each section of this part which shall be
found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
