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:
ACCESS DRIVEWAY
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.
[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.