[Adopted 9-21-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-07]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context:
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
The edge where a raised sidewalk, pavement, or road median
meets a street, highway, cartway or other roadway.
All solid or liquid waste material resulting from construction,
building operations, demolition, or the performance of any business,
trade, industry or personal use, including, but not limited to, asphalt
shingles, electric wiring, plastic products, cartons, containers,
cinders, processed wood, stones, dirt, mulch and other forms of solid
and liquid materials.
A level, concrete area, used as a pedestrian walkway, which
parallels but is separate from the cartway of a street.
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.
Material discarded as worthless or of no use.
Waste resulting from the normal maintenance and upkeep of
a yard or farm, including, but not limited to, limbs, branches, bushes,
garden plants, etc.
A.
Unless otherwise approved in writing by the Township, no person(s)
shall at any time commit the following upon any cartway, sidewalk,
street, highway or curb within Upper Uwchlan Township:
(1)
Deposit or pile any material or waste.
(2)
Operate any non-rubber tracked or non-rubber wheeled equipment or
vehicle without first placing a protective surface down on the roadway
to travel upon.
(3)
Permit any construction, building, demolition or other equipment
to remain after dark. All equipment must be properly marked to alert
motorists and pedestrians with traffic control devices in accordance
with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
(4)
Allow the placement of any dumpster or other form of container.
(5)
Allow any vehicle or construction equipment to have contact with
or travel upon any curb without first placing a protective surface
down to prevent damage.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $300, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense. In addition to the fine, the Township
may seek to recover from the defendant all of the costs it incurs
to abate the violation of this article.
