[Ord. 957, 5/15/2014]
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.
The portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
A natural person, partnership, corporation, association,
or any other legal entity.
The 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. 957, 5/15/2014]
Every property owner of a building or lot of land shall be responsible
for the removal of snow and/or ice from a public sidewalk (as defined
in § 401), clearing a path of at least 30 inches in width,
including the access to a public street or alley.
A.
Except as provided in the immediately following Subsection, 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 the immediately preceding Subsection, cause enough sand, cat litter
or other abrasive material 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. 957, 5/15/2014]
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 presents
a risk of danger of falling on any sidewalk, street or highway. 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. 957, 5/15/2014]
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 Borough on public cartways
incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident to the
clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. 957, 5/15/2014]
Any person, firm, corporation or any legal entity who shall
violate any provisions of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof,
be subject to a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 plus
costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to a term of imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. The costs
of prosecution shall include without limitation any court filing fees
and the expenses incurred by the Borough for its employees to collect
any such sums as well as attorney fees incurred by the Borough. After
12 hours have elapsed following the cessation of any fall of snow,
sleet or freezing rain and a violation has been committed hereunder,
each ensuing twenty-four-hour time period during which a violation
of the provisions of this Part continues shall be deemed a separate
offense and shall be prosecutable as such.
