[Amended 2-22-2011 by Ord. No. 11-OR-001]
A. General rule. Within 24 hours measured from the end of a snow or ice storm, the owner or owners, occupant or occupants, tenant or tenants of premises abutting or boarding upon any street in the Township shall remove all snow and ice from the abutting sidewalks of such streets and from any fire hydrant located on the property.
B. Special rule. In case the building is occupied by more than one family or business unit, then the tenant, or occupant or occupants, of the first floor or story thereof is hereby required to remove all snow and ice from such portion of the sidewalks and from any fire hydrant located on the property.
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant or occupancy of any premises on any street shall throw, place or deposit any snow into or upon any street in said Township, it being the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit all persons from throwing, casting, placing or depositing snow and ice which accumulated within the private property belonging to said person upon the sidewalks or streets or fire hydrants of the Township of Burlington.
The Police Department of the Township of Burlington is hereby designated as the enforcement official of the Township of Burlington in connection with the regulations established under §
520-13.
This article is adopted pursuant to the authority conferred by N.J.S.A. 40:65-12.
[Amended 9-23-2008 by Ord. No. 08-OR-025]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof, and each and every day in which said violation exists shall constitute a separate violation.