No owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or other person, having charge of any building or lot of ground in the Township abutting on any street, shall throw, place or deposit any snow, slush and/or ice into or upon any street, or against a fire hydrant or on the loading or unloading areas of any public transportation systems in the Township, except such as falls upon or is formed upon that portion of the property so abutting said street lying within the sidewalk lines thereof. No snow or ice may be deposited on the land of another owner, tenant, or occupant unless said owner, tenant, or occupant has agreed to accept same. No person shall authorize or permit removal of snow, slush and/or ice and its depositing upon any street, or against a fire hydrant or on the loading or unloading areas of a public transportation system in the Township. It is the intent and purpose of this section to prohibit all persons from throwing, casting, placing or depositing snow and ice which accumulated within the private property belonging to said persons upon the sidewalks or streets of the Township.
In any case in which
snow, slush and/or ice shall not be removed from any sidewalk as required in §
297-31, or shall be cast,
deposited, thrown or placed upon any sidewalk or street in violation of §
297-33, such
snow, slush and/or ice shall be removed by and under the direction of the Township Manager or his designee. The cost thereof shall be certified by the Township Engineer to the governing body, which shall examine such certificate of cost and, if it finds said certificate to be correct, shall cause such cost to be charged against the real estate abutting upon such sidewalks. The amount so charged shall thereupon become a lien and tax upon said real estate and be added to and be a part of the taxes next to be levied and assessed thereon, and enforced and collected, with interest, by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes. The imposition and collection of any penalty imposed by the provisions of §
297-34 shall not constitute any bar to the right of the Township to collect such assessment of costs as certified for the removal of said
snow, slush and/or ice in the manner herein authorized.