[Adopted 8-15-1994 by Ord. No. 5-94 (Ch.
21, Part 3, of the 1996 Code)]
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 traffic, exclusive of the berm or shoulders.
Portion of a street or highway between the curblines, or
the lateral lines of a cartway, and the limits of the street or highway
right-of-way lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
The entire width between the right-of-way 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, partnership, corporation or other
entity, in charge, control, possession, occupancy or having an ownership
interest in any building or lot of land fronting or abutting on a
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 so much of said sidewalk as is in front of or
abutting on said building or lot of land.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B, hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within 24 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.
In the event 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 the sidewalk to be cleared of snow and ice as provided for in this section.
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 Borough of
Jersey Shore on public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or
mounded on curbs incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business
districts.
[Amended 5-6-1996 by Ord. No. 4-96; 8-13-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-04]
Any person violating any provision of this article
within shall, on their first offense, be fined $25. If said fine of
$25 is not paid in 10 days, then, upon conviction thereof, they will
be sentenced to pay a fine of no less than $150 and no more than $1,000
or shall undergo imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both.
Each day of violation constitutes a separate violation. It is recognized
that more than one person or entity may be responsible for performing
the duties required under this article with regard to any one location.
It is the express intent of this article to make all such persons
or entities fully responsible for assuring compliance with this article.
