[Ord. No. 224, 6/5/1973, § 1]
The word "person" as used in this Part shall mean and include
any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
In this Part, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall
include the singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine
and the neuter.
[Ord. No. 224, 6/5/1973, § 2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to plant or maintain, upon
any property owned by him, any willow tree or poplar tree so located
that the roots thereof are likely to interfere with or obstruct any
sewer line or water line under the control of the Borough of Hatfield.
[Ord. No. 224, 6/5/1973, § 3]
1.
It shall be the duty of the owners of real estate in the Borough
to trim and keep trimmed all trees located upon such property and
along or near to any street in the Borough so that:
A.
The limbs and/or branches thereof shall in no way interfere with
electric wires and other wires lawfully suspended along such street.
B.
The limbs and/or branches thereof shall not obscure or obstruct the
light from any streetlight.
C.
No part of such tree or the limbs and/or branches and foliage thereof
shall obstruct the view of said street and/or traffic thereon by persons
operating vehicles upon such street or any intersecting street.
D.
There shall be a clearance of at least 14 feet from the surface of
the street and at least eight feet from the surface of the sidewalks,
to the lowest branch or limb of such tree or any other overhanging
part thereof.
E.
No portion of the trunk of any tree shall encroach horizontally over
the roadway of the street or over the paved portion of the sidewalk.
[Ord. No. 224, 6/5/1973, § 4]
Any person owning property in the Borough of Hatfield upon which
any tree shall be growing or maintained contrary to any provision
of this Part shall, within 30 days' notice from the Borough Council,
be required to remove such tree or to trim the same, as the case may
be, so as to be in conformity with the requirements of this Part,
and every day after the end of such thirty-day period on which such
notice shall not be obeyed shall constitute a separate violation of
this Part; provided, in case of the failure, neglect or refusal of
any property owner to trim or remove any tree or part thereof growing
in violation of any provision of this Part within such thirty-day
period, the Borough may remove or trim the same, either by Borough
personnel or by contract with another person, and shall then collect
the cost of such removal or trimming, with an additional amount of
10% from such property owner in default.
[Ord. No. 224, 6/5/1973, § 5; as amended by Ord.
No. 501, 8/15/2012]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
