[Adopted 11-7-1994 by Ord. No. 2-1994]
The Board of Township Supervisors (“Board”) of this Township hereby declares the following statements as its purpose and intention in enacting this article:
A. 
The Township provides maintenance of certain public street and roads within this Township, including the removal of natural snow and mitigation of the effects of ice. Considerable resources of this Township have been appropriated to provide equipment and manpower to perform these functions. It is observed that persons living, occupying or otherwise connected with lands abutting said public streets and roads place snow and ice accumulating on private driveways, parking areas and sidewalks upon the public streets and roads after Township forces have undertaken to remove snow and treat ice. Such placement negates the removal/treatment processes and causes dangerous obstructions jeopardizing the traveling public.
B. 
Therefore, the Board declares that it is necessary and in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township and the traveling public at large to prohibit the placement of snow and ice on public streets and roads maintained by this Township and to provide penalties for those who violate or permit the violation of such prohibition.
When used in this article, the following words, terms or phrases shall have the meanings set forth hereinbelow:
CLEARED AND/OR TREATED PORTION OF A PUBLIC STREET OR ROAD
That portion of a public street or road which has been plowed or otherwise cleared of snow by Township forces or which has been treated by Township forces with de-icing or anti-skid material.
ENTITY
Any organization of people other than an individual person whether in the form of a partnership, joint venture, association, corporation (whether for or not for profit) or otherwise.
ICE
Frozen water, whether as the result of precipitation or otherwise.
PERSON
A natural person.
PUBLIC STREET OR ROAD
Any street or road within the territorial limits of the Township as maintained by the Township.
RESTITUTION
A sum of money equal to the Township’s actual cost of removing snow or ice unlawfully placed on a public street or road or for treating ice occasioned by such unlawful placement, said costs to be determined by the verified statement of the Township Secretary.
SNOW
Natural frozen precipitation.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Dickinson, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
TOWNSHIP SECRETARY
The Township Secretary as appointed by Township’s Board of Township Supervisors.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place any snow or ice (whether by shoveling, sweeping, plowing, blowing, pushing, dumping or otherwise) upon the cleared and/or treated portion of a public street or road within this Township.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to cause or permit any person to place any snow or ice (whether by shoveling, sweeping, plowing, blowing, pushing, dumping or otherwise) upon the cleared and/or treated portion of a public street or road within this Township. A person or an entity shall be presumed to have caused or permitted a person to place snow or ice upon the cleared and/or treated portion of a public street or road where such person or entity:
(1) 
Owns, occupies or otherwise controls the land from which the snow or ice originated; or
(2) 
Employs, contracts with or otherwise engages the person placing the snow or ice upon said street or road.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.