Township of Montclair, NJ
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2024-03-12
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 270 Sewers, Storm
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Article III Encroachments and Encumbrances
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Diversity Inclusion Program
- Ch 8 Affirmative Action Requirements
- Ch 11 Civil Rights Commission
- Ch 15 Claims, Payment of
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 Court
- Ch 21 Discrimination
- Ch 23 Education, Board of
- Ch 25 Energy Aggregation
- Ch 27 Fire Department
- Ch 29 Housing Commission
- Ch 29A Residential Dwelling Rental Relief Fund
- Ch 31 Insurance Fund
- Ch 40 Mutual Assistance
- Ch 42 Native Vegetation
- Ch 44 Officers and Employees
- Ch 46 (Reserved)
- Ch 48 Personnel Regulations
- Ch 51 Police Department
- Ch 51A Project Labor Agreements
- Ch 52 Domestic Violence Intervention Team
- Ch 53 Retirement
- Ch 55 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 60 Urban Renewal
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 65 Affordable Housing
- Ch 67 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
- Ch 71 Alarms, Burglar and Fire
- Ch 74 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 78 Amusements
- Ch 82 Animals
- Ch 83 Animal Shelter
- Ch 86 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 88 Bamboo
- Ch 90 Barbershops
- Ch 93 Bicycles
- Ch 96 Boardinghouses
- Ch 100 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 104 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 108 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 110 Cannabis
- Ch 117 Condominium and Cooperative Conversions
- Ch 121 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 127 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 130 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 132 Employer Regulations
- Ch 134 Environmental Hazards
- Ch 136 Fees
- Ch 140 Filming
- Ch 144 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 148 Fire Hoses
- Ch 153 Fire Prevention
- Ch 157 Fire Safety Act Enforcement
- Ch 161 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 163 Fund-Raising, Political
- Ch 166 Games of Chance
- Ch 170 Glue Sales and Head Shops
- Ch 174 Graffiti
- Ch 178 Handbills and Posters
- Ch 182 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 186 Health Standards
- Ch 190 Housing
- Ch 196 Jogging
- Ch 200 Landscapers
- Ch 202 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 204 Library Property
- Ch 207 Lighting
- Ch 213 Multifamily Buildings
- Ch 217 Noise
- Ch 218 Nuisances
- Ch 219 Leaf Blowers
- Ch 220 Obscene Material
- Ch 222 Parades and Processions
- Ch 228 Parking
- Ch 230 Parking Lots
- Ch 234 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 238 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 241 Portable Storage Units
- Ch 243 Precious Metals Dealers
- Ch 247 Property Maintenance
- Ch 249 Property, Vacant and Abandoned
- Ch 251 Public Lands, Sale of
- Ch 253 Public Recreational Bathing
- Ch 256 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 257 Rent Regulation
- Ch 260 Roll-Off Containers and Dumpsters
- Ch 264 Sales, Special
- Ch 269 Sewers
- Ch 270 Sewers, Storm
- Ch 270 Art III Encroachments and Encumbrances
- § 270-8 Enforcement by Township Engineer; authority.
- § 270-9 Removal of encroachments upon notice.
- § 270-10 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 273 Shopping Carts
- Ch 274 Shuttle Bus Service
- Ch 276 Sidewalk Cafes
- Ch 277 Signs
- Ch 281 Site Plan Review
- Ch 285 Skateboards
- Ch 292 Solid Waste
- Ch 293 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 294 Steep Slopes
- Ch 295 Stormwater Control
- Ch 297 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 301 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 305 Swimming Pools
- Ch 309 Taxation
- Ch 313 Taxicabs and Liveries
- Ch 317 Telephones, Pay
- Ch 320 Tobacco Products
- Ch 322 Towing
- Ch 324 Trees
- Ch 326 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 327 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 333 Vending Machines
- Ch 337 Vendors, Mobile
- Ch 341 Water
- Ch 347 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A351 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The Township Engineer is designated as the authority empowered
to prevent and remove all encroachments, obstructions or encumbrances
in or upon all sewers, drains and watercourses in the Township. He
or she shall have full power and authority:
A.
To open, clear, clean out, straighten, repair, prevent and remove
all such encroachments, obstructions and encumbrances.
B.
For the performance of the aforesaid acts, to go, personally or through
his or her duly authorized representatives, upon the land of any person
through or along which any sewer, drain or watercourse flows or is
located.
Any person putting, placing or making any encroachment, obstruction
or encumbrance in or upon any sewer, drain or watercourse shall remove
the same within 24 hours after receiving written notice from the Township
Engineer requiring such removal.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000,
imprisonment in the county/municipal jail for a term not exceeding
90 days, or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or
any combination thereof as determined by the Municipal Court Judge.
Each day on which a violation of an ordinance exists shall be considered
a separate and distinct violation and shall be subject to imposition
of a separate penalty for each day of the violation as the Municipal
Court Judge may determine.
