[Adopted as Ch. 92 of the 1973 Code]
[Amended 9-12-1990 by Ord. No. 90:09]
A.
The owner or owners, occupant or occupants, tenant or tenants of
premises abutting or bordering upon any street in the Borough of Somerdale
shall remove all snow and ice from the abutting sidewalks of such
streets or, in the case of ice which may be so frozen as to make removal
impracticable, shall cause the same to be thoroughly covered with
sand or ashes within 12 hours of daylight after the same shall fall
or be formed thereon.
B.
In case the building is occupied by more than one family or business
unit, then the tenant or occupant of the, first floor or story thereof
is hereby required to remove all snow and ice from such portion of
the sidewalks or, in the case of ice which it is impracticable to
remove, to cover the same with sand or ashes within 12 hours of daylight
after the same shall be formed or fall thereon.
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant or occupant
of any premises abutting on any street, shall throw, place or deposit
any snow or ice into or upon any street in said Borough, it being
the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit all persons from
throwing, casting, placing or depositing snow and ice which accumulated
within the private property belonging to said person upon the sidewalks
or streets of the Borough of Somerdale.
[Amended 9-12-1990 by Ord. No. 90:09; 5-8-1991 by Ord. No. 91:05]
In case such snow or ice shall not be removed from such sidewalks or shall be cast or deposited thereon or placed upon said sidewalks or said street by the owner or owners, tenant or tenants, occupant or occupants of any said premises as provided in §§ 223-1 and 223-2 hereof, the same shall be removed forthwith and under the direction of the Police Chief of the Borough of Somerdale, and the cost of such removal, as nearly as can be ascertained, shall be certified by the said Police Chief to the governing body. The governing body shall examine such certification and, if found to be correct, shall cause such cost to be charged against such real estate so abutting or bordering upon such sidewalks, and the amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien and a tax upon such real estate or land and be added to, recorded and collected in the same way and manner as the taxes next to be levied and assessed upon such premises and shall bear interest and be enforced and collected by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes. The imposition and collection of a fine or fines imposed by the provision of this article shall not constitute any bar to the right of the Borough of Somerdale to collect the cost as certified for the removal of said snow or ice in the manner herein authorized.
This article is adopted pursuant to the authority conferred
by N.J.S.A. 40:65-12.
