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Borough of Phoenixville, PA
Chester County
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[Ord. 1193, 7/9/1974, § 1]
No owner, lessee or occupant of real property located within the Borough of Phoenixville adjoining the intersection of public streets shall place or permit to be placed on the said real estate any motor vehicle or other notable article of personal property not permanently attached to the said real estate obstructing clear vision in a triangle formed four feet above the surface of the ground by connecting the ends of street center lines radiating 50 feet from the intersection of the said center lines.
[Ord. 1193, 7/9/1974, § 2]
This Part shall not pertain to intersections the traffic at which is governed by an electrically controlled traffic signal using colored lights.
[Ord. 1193, 7/9/1974, § 4; as amended by Ord. 1276, 8/10/1976, § 1; by Ord. 1607, 11/14/1989, § 3; and by A.O.]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 1]
No person or persons shall destroy, injure or remove in any way whatsoever, or tamper with or deface any public property of the Borough of Phoenixville, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work, building, street light, fire hydrant or water or gas stop box on any of the streets alleys, parks or other public grounds in the Borough, or any private property placed for the use or benefit of the public within this Borough.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 2]
No person or persons shall fell, mutilate, injure or otherwise destroy, wantonly, any tree or shrubbery growing upon any public property or along any of the streets or alleys in the Borough.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 3]
No person or persons shall in any manner interfere with or meddle with or pull, drive, change, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location, corner or angle in the Borough of Phoenixville, made, placed or set, or hereafter made, placed or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Borough in any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground in the Borough, to evidence the elevation, line, grade, location, corner or angle of any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, sewer or other public work, matter or thing.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 4]
No person or persons shall willfully or maliciously destroy or remove or deface or obliterate or cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade erected by the authorities of the Borough or by any person, firm or corporation doing work by permission of the authorities of the Borough on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or bridges, or on any public property in the Borough, as a warning of danger.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 5]
No person or persons shall open or close, negligently or wantonly, any street sewer watercourse in the Borough; or tamper with, injure, destroy, move or remove any machinery, tools, equipment or parts thereof belonging to the Borough.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 6]
No person or persons shall take any earth, stone or other material from any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public grounds in the Borough.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 7]
This Part shall not apply to normal activities in connection with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys, sidewalks and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located thereon, nor to incidental results of work thereon or therein upon permit from or authority of the Borough.
[Ord. 950, 9/17/1963, § 8; as amended by Ord. 1249, 8/10/1976, § 1; by Ord. 1607, 11/14/1989, § 4; and by A.O.]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.