[Ord. 2017-02, 5/8/2017]
The applicant shall provide a certificate of insurance to the
Township, as part of its application for the permit, same to reflect
that the contractor, subcontractor or any other entity who shall actually
perform the work under the permit is insured against all claims for
bodily injury, including death, as well as all claims for property
damage, any of which may arise out if its performance of the work.
This insurance shall include completed operations and underground
coverages, and it shall name the Township and Township Engineer as
an additional insured. The Foreman or Township Engineer may require
increased limits in the insurance coverage based upon the nature and
extent of the work; however, the minimum limits for bodily injury,
including death, shall be $500,000 for each person and $1,000,000
for each occurrence and a minimum of $250,000 for property damage
for each occurrence.
[Ord. 2017-02, 5/8/2017]
If, in the opinion of the Manager, Foreman or Township Engineer,
the work to be undertaken is such that it will affect any property
which abuts or adjoins the area of the work, the Manager, Foreman
or Township Engineer may require the permittee to give notice of the
same to the owners and/or tenants of each such affected property.
In the case of disruption to electric, gas, phone, water or cable
services, the permittee will inform the Township Emergency Management
Coordinator, the Foreman and the Township Engineer of the expected
commencement and length of such disruption, such notice to be given
at a time not earlier than 48 hours and not later than 24 hours before
the disruption begins. Absent such notice, no disruption of said services
may commence without approval of the Township Engineer.
[Ord. 2017-02, 5/8/2017]
The Township Secretary shall provide the Police and Fire Departments
operating within the Township with a copy of any permit which prohibits
or restricts the flow of traffic on any roadway, and the permittee
shall be responsible for coordination between itself and the Police
and Fire Departments in order that the public safety be protected
during the course of the work.
[Ord. 2017-02, 5/8/2017]
Any person, partnership, firm, corporation or any other entity
which shall violate any provision of this Part shall, upon conviction
thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and/or
to suffer imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days. Each day
that any violation of any provision of this Part continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
[Ord. 129, 12/15/1964, § 1]
Whenever it shall be deemed proper and necessary by the Board
of Township Commissioners that sidewalks, curbs or footwalks shall
be graded, constructed, paved, curbed, repaved, recurbed, laid or
repaired along such streets of said Township, within any residence
district thereof, the said Board of Township Commissioners shall by
resolution at any meeting thereof, direct the Secretary to serve written
notice upon the owners of property abutting on said streets or highways,
requiring them to grade, construct, pave, curb, repave, recurb, repair
or lay such sidewalks or footwalks, within 30 days from such notice
and specify in said notice the width of said sidewalks, and the character
of the same, whether of concrete, brick or other material, and the
nature of the surfacing thereof.
[Ord. 129, 12/15/1964, § 2]
Upon failure of any owner of property abutting on said streets
to do and perform any work required under the provisions of this Part
within the time specified, the said Township Commissioners shall cause
the same to be done and collect the cost of the work and material
from the abutting property owners in the manner and with the penalty
prescribed by the Acts of Assembly in such cases made and provided.