[Adopted 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 411]
As used in this article, 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.
Every person in charge or control of any building
or lot of land fronting or abutting on a paved sidewalk, whether as
owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall remove and clear
away, or cause to be removed or cleared away, snow and/or ice from
a path of at least 30 inches in width from so much of said sidewalk
as is in front of or abuts on said building or lot of land.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B hereof, 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 that 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 Subsection A hereof, cause enough sand or other abrasive 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.
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 is liable to fall on any sidewalk, roadway or
other public way. 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.
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 township on
public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs
incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
Any person who violates or permits a violation
of this article shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil
enforcement proceeding commenced by the township before a District
Justice, pay a fine of not more than $600, plus all court costs, including
reasonable attorney's fees, incurred by the township in the enforcement
of this article. No judgment shall be imposed until the date of the
determination of the violation by the District Justice. If the defendant
neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the township may enforce
the judgment pursuant to the applicable Rules of Civil Procedure.
Each day a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. Further,
the appropriate officers or agents of the township are hereby authorized
to seek equitable relief, including injunction, to enforce compliance
herewith.
