[Adopted 9-27-1955 by Ord. No. 55-24]
The Chief of Police and the Building Inspector of the Borough
of Kenilworth are hereby designated and appointed as the officers
of the municipality to exercise the powers prescribed by this article
in the manner hereinafter provided, their services, as such, to continue
at the pleasure of the Borough Council.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
If the Chief of Police shall determine at any time that any
brush, hedges or other plant life growing within 10 feet of any roadway
within the Borough of Kenilworth and within 25 feet of the intersection
of any two such roadways obstructs the view of persons using such
intersection so as to create a traffic hazard, he shall notify the
owner or tenant of the lands on which same is growing to cut or trim
same to a height of not more than 2 1/2 feet or in such other
manner as he may designate as necessary to eliminate such hazard and
to afford a clear and uninterrupted view at such intersection.
If the owner or tenant so notified fails to comply with the
order to cut or trim such brush, hedges or other plant life within
10 days from the service of such notice as hereinafter provided, then
the Chief of Police shall notify the Building Inspector of such fact,
and the Building Inspector shall then proceed to have the Department
of Public Works cut or trim same or have same cut or trimmed in such
manner as to comply with said notice and to eliminate said hazard.
In all cases where brush, hedges or other plant life are cut
or trimmed from any such lands by the municipality, the Building Inspector
shall certify the cost thereof, in writing, to the Borough Council.
The Borough Council shall examine such certificate and, if found correct,
shall cause the cost, as shown therein, to be charged against said
lands or, in the event that such cost is excessive, shall cause the
reasonable cost thereof to be charged against said lands, and the
amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and
shall be added to, become and form a part of the taxes next to be
assessed and levied upon such lands, same to bear interest at the
same rate as other taxes, and same shall be levied, collected and
enforced by the same officers and in the same manner as taxes.
The notice herein provided for shall be given by mailing same
to the owner and tenant, if any, of said lands at the last known address
of said owner and/or tenant as shown on the books of the Tax Collector
of the Borough.
