[Adopted 10-5-1928 by Ord. No. 424]
[Amended 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1538]
The owner or owners, tenant or tenants of lands
abutting or bordering upon sidewalks shall remove all snow and ice
from the same within 12 hours of daylight after the same shall be
formed or fall thereon. Within the Boulevard business section, normally
cleared by the Department of Public Works of accumulated snow, the
sidewalks shall be cleared to within one foot of the curb.
The owner or owners, tenant or tenants of lands
abutting or bordering upon the sidewalks and gutters of public streets,
avenues, highways and public places shall remove all grass, weeds
and other impediments therefrom after notice to remove the same. All
grass and weeds shall be cut to a height of less than four inches
from the ground.
[Amended 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1538]
In case the owner or owners or tenants of lands
abutting or bordering upon the sidewalks and gutters of public streets,
avenues, highways and public places shall refuse or neglect to remove
all snow or ice from the same within 12 hours of daylight after the
same shall be formed or fall thereon or all grass and weeds and other
impediments therefrom after three days' notice, the Superintendent
of Public Works may cause such work to be done under his direction,
and he shall certify the cost thereof to the Council.
The cost of such removal, as certified by the
Superintendent of Public Works, if found correct by the Council, shall
forthwith become a lien upon the lands abutting or bordering any such
sidewalk and gutter and shall be added to and become and form a part
of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands and shall
bear interest the same as taxes.
The Council shall, upon receiving a certificate
of cost as aforesaid from the Superintendent, examine the same and,
if found correct, shall adopt a resolution to that effect directing
that a certified copy thereof be delivered to the Collector of Taxes,
who shall thereupon collect such charges at the time of collection
of taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands as a part
thereof.
[Amended 3-15-1961 by Ord. No. 840; 2-22-1977 by Ord. No.
1087; 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1538]
In addition to the other provisions of the article, any owner or other person in the control of any lands abutting upon a public highway of the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights who shall, in the case of a snowfall, fail to remove all snow or ice from the abutting sidewalks within 12 hours after each snow shall fall or such ice shall be formed thereon shall be guilty of a violation of this article and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the penalties in § 236-12.
