[Adopted 8-6-1969 by Ord. No. 69-2]
On or after the passage of this article, it
shall not be lawful for any person to construct or reconstruct any
driveway or alter the grade line or width of any shoulder within the
right-of-way of Township roads until a permit to perform such construction
or reconstruction has been issued by the Board of Supervisors of Lower
Salford Township.
[Amended 7-16-1986 by Ord. No. 86-3]
The purpose of this article is to provide for
the construction of access driveways, abutting graded areas and areas
abutting public roads in such a manner so as to facilitate the safe
and unobstructed movement of vehicular traffic and to facilitate road
drainage by proper grading of ditches and/or swales thereby preventing
the impeding or obstruction of the flow of surface water drainage
from and along public roads in the Township.
The provisions of this article shall be held
to be minimum requirements to meet the above-stated purposes. Where
the provisions of this article impose greater restrictions than those
of any statute, other ordinance or regulations, the provisions of
this article shall prevail. Where the provisions of any statute, other
ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than those of
this article, the provision of such statute, ordinance or regulations
shall prevail.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any means for passage of vehicles between property abutting
on a Township highway and the highway. It shall be deemed to include
that part of the driveway that lies within the established right-of-way
limits of the Township highway. It will also include such drainage
structures as may be necessary for the proper construction and maintenance
thereof.
A.
Plans and specifications. All construction, grading
or planting within the right-of-way of Township roads shall be executed
in accordance with plans and specifications showing all proposed works
in a manner satisfactory to the Township. Such plans may be part of
or included in plans prepared for building, zoning, subdivision or
sewage applications.
B.
Permits.
(1)
A permit will be issued in writing when a plan is
deemed satisfactory to the Township.
(2)
Under no circumstances whatever shall a verbal approval
or permission given by anyone be considered a justification for any
deviation from the approved plans or the violation of any of the rules
and regulations governing construction within the right-of-way of
Township highways.
C.
Fees. The applicant requesting a permit to construct
shall pay over to the Township such filing fee as the Board of Supervisors
shall establish from time to time by resolution.
A.
Supervision. It shall be the duty of the Township
Road Inspector or his representatives to supervise, superintend and
inspect all work within the right-of-way of the Township highway in
conformity with the ordinances of the Township.
B.
Notice. Notice must be given said Inspector when the
work is sufficiently advanced for inspection, when it shall be the
duty of the proper officer to inspect the same within two working
days alter receipt of said notification.
[Amended 8-4-1982 by Ord. No. 82-8; 9-19-1996 by Ord. No.
96-3; 6-3-1998 by Ord. No. 98-4; 11-18-1999 by Ord. No. 99-16]
Any person or persons, copartnership, firm or
corporation violating any of the provisions of this article shall
be subject to a criminal fine not to exceed $1,000 per violation and
imprisonment of such person or persons or the members of such copartnerships
or firms or the officers of such corporation responsible for such
violation in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility to the extent
allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses. Enforcement
of any such violations shall be by action brought before a District
Justice in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
