[Adopted 12-10-1997 by Ord. No. 97-21]
When a snow storm occurs, as hereinafter set forth, which constitutes serious public hazard impairing transportation, the movement of food and emergency supplies, medical care, fire, health, police protection and other vital facilities of the Township, a state of emergency shall be deemed to exist. A state of emergency is hereby declared to exist within the municipal limits of the Township whenever there shall be a snowfall of two inches or more, in the opinion of the Director of Public Works or his designee, and such emergency shall be presumed to continue for a period of 24 hours after the cessation of said snowfall.
In order to afford the Township the opportunity to clear its streets and highways of snow and to open the same during the period of the emergency, no vehicle, however propelled, except as herein provided, shall be allowed to stand or park, whether attended or not, upon any street or highway in the Township, except for picking up or discharging passengers or for picking up or delivering essential merchandise or other commodities; provided, however, that such emergency shall be terminated as to any street or highway when the snow has been plowed therefrom for the full width of the pavement.
Such emergency shall continue beyond the seventy-two-hour period above set forth on those streets or highways of the Township from which the snow has not been removed, and no vehicle shall be allowed to stand or park, whether attended or not, on such street or highway until the snow shall have been cleared thoroughly therefrom.
Whenever a vehicle has been parked or left standing in violation of the provisions of this article, the Chief of Police or any police officer so designated by the Chief may move or cause the removal of such vehicle to such place as may be designated by the Chief of Police for the impounding until the person owning said vehicle shall pay the reasonable cost of such removal and storage. Within 24 hours after the vehicle has been so removed, the Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department acting for the Chief shall give written notice thereof to the registered owner or owners if the name or names and address may be ascertained, which notice may be given by personal service or by mail addressed to said owner or owners at their last known address.
The removal of vehicles as referred to in the aforementioned § 296-14 to a designated place of impounding shall be carried out only by Township truck operators listed on the rotating list maintained by the Police Department.
After any vehicle removed as aforesaid has been in the possession of either the Police Department of the Township of Mansfield for a period of six months, and the owner or owner cannot be found or refuses to receive and remove such vehicle and pay the storage costs thereof, then the Chief of Police may proceed to sell such vehicle in accordance with the provisions of the Laws of the State of New Jersey.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported upon a highway.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Section 1.H, Violations, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 6-10-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-07.
The owner or tenant of lands abutting upon a public street of the Township of Mansfield, shall and must remove, or cause to be removed, from the abutting sidewalks of said street, and from around any fire hydrant located on said premises for a radius of two feet all snow or ice within 24 daylight hours after the same shall be formed or fall thereon.
[Added 4-12-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-05]
A. 
No person, firm or corporation, or the owner, tenant or occupant of any premises abutting on any public street within the jurisdiction of the Township of Mansfield shall throw, place or deposit any snow, ice or sleet into or upon any of said Township streets. It is the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit all persons from throwing, casting, placing, plowing or depositing snow, ice and sleet which has accumulated within the private property or any area outside of the traveled way or shoulder onto a Township street.
B. 
No person, firm or corporation, or the owner, tenant or occupant of any premises abutting on any Township street, if require by necessity plowing of their driveways to gain access to the public street, shall plow any snow, ice and sleet into or upon the Township streets, traveled way or shoulder; rather, all snow, ice and sleet shall be deposited off the traveled way and shoulder. It is hereby further required, to facilitate the traffic flow and to maintain the proper width on the Township streets, that said person or persons or individuals and/or their agents shall feather the snow along said Township streets so that same does not encroach upon the traveled way and/or shoulder, if one exists.
Any owner or tenant who violates the above section of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $250, together with the cost of prosecution incurred by the Township of Mansfield.
In cases where the owner or tenant shall refuse or neglect to remove the snow and ice as required by this article, in the manner and within the time provided herein, the Mayor and Township Committee, by or under the direction of the Road Supervisor of the Department of Public Works, shall cause the same to be done.
The cost and expense paid and incurred by the Township of Mansfield for removing such snow or ice from any sidewalk or fire hydrant and for forming the pathway, where required, shall be ascertained by the Committee and certified to the Assessor of the Township, and such expense shall be added to and form a part of the tax or taxes next to be levied and assessed on the lot or lots of land in front of which such sidewalk is, from which snow or ice has been removed or the pathway formed, to be collected according to law, and shall be a lien upon said lands until paid; and this liability of the owner or owners of the said land shall be in addition to his or her liability to the fine imposed hereunder.