Borough of Wanaque, NJ
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2021-11-08
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 96 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article IV Removal of Snow and Weeds from Sidewalks
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Assessors, Board of Tax
- Ch 5 Civil Defense Agency
- Ch 6 Civil Service
- Ch 8 Claims Approval
- Ch 10 Court, Municipal
- Ch 12 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 13 Fire Department and Emergency Services
- Ch 15 Health, Board of
- Ch 17 Industrial Commission
- Ch 20 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 22 Meetings
- Ch 23 Open Space Committee
- Ch 24 Part-Time Employees
- Ch 26 Pensions
- Ch 28 Personnel, Municipal
- Ch 29 Personnel Policies and Regulations
- Ch 30 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 31 (Reserved
- Ch 33 Police Department
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 35 Purchasing
- Ch 36 (Reserved)
- Ch 38 Records, Fees for Public
- Ch 40 Recreation Commissioners, Board of
- Ch 43 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 44 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 46 Alarm Devices
- Ch 47 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 48 Alarm Devices and False Alarms
- Ch 49 Amusement Devices and Vending Machines
- Ch 50 Animals
- Ch 51 Assemblies, Mass
- Ch 53 Auctions
- Ch 55 (Reserved)
- Ch 57 Bathing Apparel
- Ch 58 Bathing, Public
- Ch 60 Bees, Domestic
- Ch 62 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 62A Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 63 Buildings, Repair or Demolition
- Ch 64 (Reserved)
- Ch 66 Car Lots, Used
- Ch 66A Certificate of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 67 Checks, Returned
- Ch 67A Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Ch 71 Dwellings Unfit for Human Habitation
- Ch 72 Fees
- Ch 72A Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 73 Fire Prevention
- Ch 74 Flea Markets and Garage Sales
- Ch 74A Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 74AA Golf in Parks and Public Places
- Ch 74B Hazardous Materials
- Ch 74C Hotels, Motels and Tourist Lodges
- Ch 75 Housing
- Ch 76 Insurance
- Ch 78 Library, Municipal
- Ch 79 Licensing
- Ch 80 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 82 Noise
- Ch 83 Obscene Materials and Adult Uses
- Ch 83A Parking of Commercial Vehicles
- Ch 84 Parks
- Ch 85 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 87 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 88 Property Maintenance
- Ch 88A Rainbow Valley Lake
- Ch 89 Raffles
- Ch 89A Recycling
- Ch 89B Retaining Walls
- Ch 90 Secondhand Precious Metals, Dealers in
- Ch 91 Sewers
- Ch 91A Sexual Offenders
- Ch 92 Shade Trees
- Ch 93 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 94 Soil Removal
- Ch 95 Stormwater Management
- Ch 96 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 96 Art IV Removal of Snow and Weeds from Sidewalks
- § 96-36 Time limit for removal of impediments from sidewalks.
- § 96-36.1 Depositing snow and ice on streets.
- § 96-37 Borough to remove if property holders do not.
- § 96-38 Expense of public removal a tax lien.
- § 96-39 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 98 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 99 Swimming Pools
- Ch 101 Taxicabs
- Ch 103 Telephone Communication, Direct
- Ch 104 Trees
- Ch 105 Trespassing
- Ch 106 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 107 Vehicles, Repair of
- Ch 108 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 109 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 110 Vehicles, Towing and Storage of
- Ch 110A Video Surveillance, Outdoor
- Ch 111 Water
- Ch 112 Wellhead Protection
- Ch 112A Wood Furnaces, Outdoor
- Ch 113 Yard Waste
- Ch 114 Zoning
- Part III: Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 116 Air Pollution
- Ch 116A Cigarette Vending Machines
- Ch 116B Dogs
- Ch 117 Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 119 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Garbage and Rubbish
- Ch 122 Vital Statistics and Personal Health Programs, Fees for
- Ch 123 Housing Standards
- Ch 125 Litter
- Ch 127 Nuisances, Health
- Ch 128 (Reserved)
- Ch 130 Food and Beverages
- Ch 132 (Reserved)
- Ch 133 Sanitation Standards
- Ch 135 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 136 (Reserved)
- Ch 137 Public Recreational Bathing
- Ch 137A Tattooing
- Ch 138 Water Systems, Public Noncommunity and Nonpublic
- Ch 139 Weed Control
- Appendix
- Ch A141 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A144 Incinerator Franchise
- Ch A147 Sewerage Authority, Regional
- Ch A149 Telephone Franchise
- Ch A150 (Reserved)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 6-4-1928]
The owner or owners, tenant or tenants of the
lands abutting or bordering upon the flag or concrete sidewalks of
the public streets of the Borough of Wanaque shall remove all ice
and snow from the portion of such sidewalks whereon such lands abut
or border within 24 hours after the same shall be formed or fall thereon,
and all grass, weeds and other impediments therefrom within three
days after notice to remove the same.
[Added 2-10-2003 by Ord. No. 3-0-03[1]]
A.
No person, including the owner or occupant of any
lands or premises abutting or bordering upon any street, shall place,
deposit, throw or shovel any snow or ice into or upon that portion
of any such street which has been cleaned, plowed or shoveled of snow
or ice by the Borough or by any governmental agency or authority or
by any public utility having and exercising a franchise or permit
to operate autobuses along any streets in the Borough at any time
after said street has been cleaned or plowed as aforesaid.
[1]
Editor's Note: Resolution No. 32-0-03, adopted
2-10-2003, waived the twenty-day waiting period in which an ordinance
shall take effect after final passage and publication, pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 40:69A-181(B).
In case such owner or owners, tenant or tenants of lands abutting or bordering upon such sidewalks of the public streets of said Borough shall fail to remove such snow, ice, grass, weeds or other impediments from said sidewalks, as required by § 96-36 of this article, it shall be the duty of the Street Superintendent or other officer having charge of the streets of the Borough to remove the snow, ice, grass, weeds and other impediments from the sidewalks in front of which said lands abut or border.
The cost and expense paid and incurred by the
Street Commissioners or other officers for the removal of such snow
or ice, grass, weeds and other impediments from any sidewalk shall
be assessed by the Council and charged to lands abutting upon or bordering
the said walks, which with interest thereon shall forthwith become
a lien on said lands and shall be added to and form a part of the
taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands and shall be
certified by the Borough Clerk to the Collector of Taxes for the Borough
of Wanaque and be collected in the same manner as other taxes.
The owner or owners, tenant or tenants of lands
abutting or bordering upon any such sidewalk who shall fail or neglect
to remove all ice and snow from the portion of such sidewalk whereon
such lands abut or border and all grass and weeds and other impediments
as required by this article or who shall place, deposit, throw or
shovel snow or ice into any portion of a street that has been cleared,
plowed or shoveled of snow or ice, shall be subject to and pay a penalty
of not less that $50 and not to exceed $500 for repeated offenses.
[1]
Editor's Note: Resolution No. 32-0-03, adopted
2-10-2003, waived the twenty-day waiting period in which an ordinance
shall take effect after final passage and publication, pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 40:69A-181(B).
