[Adopted 3-18-2003 by Ord. No. 295]
As used in this article, the following words
and terms shall be construed and be defined as follows:
The portion of a street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
The portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral
lines of a cartway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
use by pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to use of the public for
purpose of vehicular travel.
A.
Every
person in charge or control of any building or lot of land fronting
or abutting on a paved sidewalk, whether as owner, tenant, occupant,
lessee or otherwise, shall remove and clear away or cause to be removed
or cleared away snow and/or ice from a path of at least 30 inches
in width from so much of said sidewalk as is in front of or abuts
on said building or lot of land.
B.
Snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within
12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing
rain.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway
or loading and unloading areas of a public transportation system,
except that snow or ice may be mounded by the Township on public cartways.
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine not more than $1,000 and/or imprisonment for a term not to exceed
90 days upon conviction thereof by a Magisterial District Judge. Each
day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
