The owners or tenants of land abutting or bordering
on the public streets, avenues, rights-of-way or highways within the
Borough shall remove or cause to be removed all ice and snow from
the paved sidewalk in front of such land within 24 hours after such
ice or snow shall have formed or fallen thereon.
A.Â
If the owners or tenants of any such premises shall refuse or neglect to remove all ice and snow from the paved sidewalks in front of such land, as required by § 383-26, within 24 hours after such ice or snow shall have formed or fallen thereon, it shall be the duty of the officer having charge of the streets and highways of the Borough to cause such work to be done.
B.Â
Said officer shall certify the cost of the removal
of such ice and snow to the Council. After verification by the Council,
the cost shall be charged against the land abutting or bordering,
and the amount so charged shall become a lien upon the land of the
owner or tenant charged with the duty or removal of such ice and snow.
Said amount shall be added to and become a part of the taxes next
to be assessed and levied upon such land, and the same shall bear
interest at the same rate as taxes.
C.Â
The Council shall, upon receiving and verifying the
cost of removal of such ice and snow, adopt a resolution directing
that the cost shall be charged against such land and shall cause a
certified copy of such resolution to be delivered to the Collector
of Taxes, who shall collect such taxes at the time of collection of
the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such land.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 22-30, entitled
"Penalty," which immediately followed this section, was deleted 11-24-1992
by Ord. No. 92-23.
