[Adopted 5-3-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-03]
A.
The owner or owners, occupant or occupants or tenant or tenants of any premises, private, commercial or apartment complexes abutting or bordering upon any street in the Township of Lopatcong, except as provided in § 203-42, shall remove all snow and ice from the abutting sidewalks of such streets or, in the case of ice which may be so frozen as to make removal impracticable, shall cause the same to be thoroughly covered with sand, salt or cinders within 12 hours of day light after the same shall fall or be formed thereon.
[Amended 7-3-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-12]
B.
After the expiration of the initial twelve-hour period,
the Police Department has the authority to issue a written warning
allowing for an additional twelve-hour removal period. In addition,
the Police Chief may issue a waiver of the removal period upon receipt
from the owner or owners, occupant or occupants or tenant or tenants
of a written doctor's excuse as to why the snow and ice cannot be
removed from the property within the twelve-hour removal period.
[Added 4-4-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-10]
[Added 5-2-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-14]
The owner of any apartment complex located within
the township shall remove all snow and ice from sidewalks, roadways
(with dedicated and accepted public roadways of the township excepted),
parking areas, walks from the sidewalks to the entrance of the structures
on the premises, walks and stairways to basements, storage areas and
refuse storage areas of such apartment complex within 12 hours of
daylight after the same shall fall or be formed thereon.
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant
or occupant of any premises, private, commercial or apartment complexes
abutting on any street shall throw, place or deposit any snow or ice
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,
commercial property or apartment complexes belonging to said person
upon the sidewalks or streets of the Township of Lopatcong.
In case such snow or ice shall not be removed from such sidewalks or shall be cast, deposited thereon or placed upon said sidewalks or said streets by the owner or owners, tenant or tenants or occupant or occupants of any said premises, private, commercial or apartment complexes, as provided in §§ 191-6 and 191-7 hereof, the same shall be removed forthwith under the direction of the Road Department, and the cost of such removal as nearly as can be ascertained shall be certified by the Road Department to the governing body. The governing body shall examine such certification and, if found to be correct, shall cause such cost to be charged against such real estate so abutting or bordering upon such sidewalks, and the amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien and a tax upon such real estate or land and be added to, recorded and collected in the same way and manner as the tax next to be levied and collected by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes. The imposition and collection of a fine or fines imposed by the provision of this article shall not constitute any bar to the right of the Township of Lopatcong to collect the cost as certified for the removal of said snow or ice in the manner herein authorized.
Any violation of this article shall, upon conviction,
be punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service not exceeding
90 days, or any combination thereof.
