[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Harmony
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-2-1980 by Ord. No. 0:80-14]
A.
All streets and roads for public use in the Township of Harmony shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 148, Subdivision of Land, except that the improvement of existing roadways under the provisions of Chapter 148 may be modified by the governing body upon recommendation of the Township Engineer.
B.
All roadways shall have as a minimum the following cross-section
characteristics:
(2)
Curb: seven inches exposed face.
(3)
Sidewalk area: slope of 1/4 inch per foot rising from
the curb to the right-of-way line, whether sidewalks are or are not installed.
(4)
Side slopes: beginning at right-of-way line, desirable
maximum: four to one (4:1); absolute maximum: two to one (2:1) only with the
approval of Township Engineer due to exceptional conditions.
(5)
Rock cuts: as determined by engineering analysis.
[Amended 8-7-1990 by Ord. No. 0:90-15]
All construction materials shall conform to the New Jersey State Department
of Transportation Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction,
1983, as amended and supplemented or superseded by a later edition.
[Amended 8-7-1990 by Ord. No. 0:90-15]
Roadway pavements shall be constructed of the following materials:
|
Class of Roadway
|
Bituminous Concrete Surface Course Mix I-5
(inches)
|
Bituminous Stabilized Mix I-3
(inches)
|
Dense Graded Aggregate Base Course
(inches)
|
Base Course
(inches)
|
Width
(feet)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Major collector
|
1 1/2
|
1 1/2
|
5
|
4
|
48
|
|
Minor collector
|
1 1/2
|
1 1/2
|
5
|
4
|
36
|
|
Local, Class I
|
2
|
5
|
2
|
30
| |
|
Local, Class II
|
2
|
4
|
2
|
26
|
Curbing shall be constructed on all roads and shall be either concrete
or granite block, at the discretion of the Township Committee.
A.
All streets, roads and parking areas constructed for
multifamily, commercial, business or industrial use shall be paved and curbed.
The pavement shall consist of four inches of bituminous stabilized base course
and two inches of pavement Type FABC-1.
[Adopted 12-4-2001 by Ord. No. 01-12]
Maintenance at expense of owner. All sidewalks in said Township shall
be well and sufficiently constructed, repaved and maintained under the supervision
of the Municipal Engineer, at the expense of the person or persons in front
of or along whose lot or lots of ground such paving may be required to be
done.
A.
Uniform width. The sidewalks of all streets or highways
of the Township now or hereafter laid out shall be uniformly paved the width
and manner ordered by resolution of the Township Committee or, if no such
resolution has been adopted, the full width thereof as ordained in the manner
and of materials hereinafter specified.
B.
Sidewalks shall be constructed in conformance with the
following specifications. Sidewalks shall be required along both sides of
all newly constructed streets within the interior of a proposed subdivision
and along one side of the entire frontage of a subdivision on an existing
public street, and shall be constructed in accordance with the following standards:
sidewalks shall be at least five feet in width and four inches thick, constructed
of one course of concrete, except that a sidewalk forming part of a driveway
apron shall be at least six inches thick at grade with abutting sidewalks
and of the same construction material as the abutting sidewalk and shall be
constructed in accordance with the current prevailing standards of the New
Jersey Department of Transportation Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge
Construction, dated 1983, as amended. Such construction standards shall include
the following: the subgrade shall be properly prepared and compacted, if disturbed,
or upon an undisturbed suitable subbase, upon which shall be installed a four-inch
compacted thickness, three-quarter-inch clean crushed stone base.
C.
D.
Notice of required improvements; work done by Township;
assessment of costs.
(1)
The Township Committee may by ordinance provide for the
construction and reconstruction, paving and repaving, repairing and improving
of the sidewalks of the streets and highways at the cost of the owner or owners
of the real estate in front of which the improvement is made.
(2)
Before making such improvement, the Township Committee
shall cause a notice of the proposed improvement to be given to the owner
or owners of all real estate affected thereby. Said notice shall contain a
description of the improvement and a statement that unless the owner or owners
complete the same within 30 days after service thereof, the Township will
make the improvement at the expense of the owners.
(3)
If the owner of any real estate affected by such improvement after passage of ordinance and notice given as in Subsection D(2) above shall fail to make such improvement, the Township may cause the improvement to be made under supervision of the Municipal Engineer, who shall keep an accurate account of the cost thereof and shall assess such cost upon the several properties fronting on the improvement in proportion to the respective frontage thereof, and file a report thereof with the Municipal Clerk. The Township Committee shall examine such report and, if properly made, confirm and file it with the officer charged with the collection of assessments, who shall record the same in the book in which other assessments of the Township are recorded. Before confirming the report, the Township Committee shall give notice to the owner or owners of the time and place fixed for examination of the report.
A.
Snow and ice to be removed. The owner and/or tenant of
lands abutting or bordering upon the sidewalks or walking area of public streets
and highways of the Township of Harmony shall remove all snow and ice from
the sidewalks, driving aprons or walking areas for a minimum width of three
feet within 24 hours after the same shall fall or be formed thereon.
B.
Placing snow in street forbidden. Snow and ice so removed
by the owner and/or tenant shall at no time be placed in the street abutting
the sidewalks or walking area.
C.
Violations and penalties. For any and every violation
of the provisions of this section, the owner and/or tenant shall be subject
to the following penalties.
A.
Penalties.
[Amended 6-6-2002 by Ord. No. 02-5]
(1)
For a violation of any provision of this article, one
or more of the following penalties may be imposed:
(2)
For the violation of this article, a minimum penalty
shall be imposed, which shall consist of a fine in an amount not exceeding
$100. A court before which any person is convicted of violating any ordinance
shall have the power to impose any fine, term of imprisonment, or period of
community service not less than the minimum and not exceeding the maximum
fixed in this article.
(3)
A person convicted of violating this article within one
year of the date of a previous violation of the same article, and who was
fined for the previous violation, shall be sentenced by the court to an additional
fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by the court upon a
person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum or exceed
the maximum fine fixed for a violation of the article, but shall be calculated
separately from the fine imposed for the violation of the article.
(4)
Any person convicted of the violation of the article
may, in the discretion of the court by which he was convicted, and in default
of the payment of any fine imposed therefor, be imprisoned in the County Correctional
Facility (or a place of detention provided by the Township) for a term not
exceeding 90 days, or be required to perform community services for a period
not exceeding 90 days.
B.
Separate violations. Except as otherwise provided, every
day in which a violation of any provision of this article exists shall constitute
a separate violation.
C.
Application. The maximum penalty stated in this section
is not intended to state an appropriate penalty for every violation. Any lesser
penalty, including a nominal penalty or no penalty at all, may be appropriate
for a particular case or violation.
