[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Waynesboro 8-16-1978 by Ord. No. 832 (Ch. XXVI of the 1970
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter is enacted for the protection of
the health, safety, welfare and convenience of the people using the
public streets and alleys of the Borough of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
No owner of any lot, place or area within the
Borough of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania shall permit any bush, shrub or
tree which is growing upon their land to extend into or over any public
street or alley in such manner that the same interferes with free
passage of the vehicular traffic on any street or alley or pedestrian
traffic on any sidewalk area, and no owner shall permit any dead or
decaying limbs which overhang any public street, sidewalk or alley
to remain in any tree.
It shall be the duty of every police officer
of the Borough of Waynesboro to report any violation of this chapter
which may come to his attention to the Chief of Police of the Borough
of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
Upon the failure and neglect or refusal of any
owner of any lot, place or area within the Borough of Waynesboro to
remove any growth of bush, shrub or tree which protrudes into or over
a public street or alley and which interferes with vehicular or pedestrian
traffic within 20 days after the same has created interference with
said traffic, or dead limbs which overhang any public street, sidewalk
or alley within 60 days after the same are observed to be dead or
decaying, the Chief of Police shall notify the Borough Manager who
is hereby authorized and empowered to pay for the removal of such
protruding growth or decaying limbs or to order the removal of the
same by the Borough Maintenance Department.
When the Borough has caused the removal as aforesaid
or has paid for its removal, the actual cost thereof plus 10% shall
be charged to the owners of said lot, place or area and shall be due
and payable to the Borough within 30 days from the date of invoice.
Upon failure to pay for said removal as above
set forth, the claim for said actual cost plus 10% may be recovered
by proper action in assumpsit in the name of the Borough and shall
further be chargeable against the property as a special assessment.
Any person, firm, partnership, association or
corporation violating any section or sections of this chapter shall
upon summary conviction before Magisterial District Judge be sentenced to pay
a fine of $25 and costs of prosecution for the second and subsequent
offenses thereof.
