A.
No person shall obstruct or permit the obstruction
of any street or public place by the storage or placing of any building
material or other material or merchandise thereon and permitting the
same to remain longer than is necessary to convey the same on or into
private property, unless a permit therefor shall be obtained from
the Borough Clerk. No permit shall be granted which permits the use
or obstruction of more than 1/4 of the width of the roadway of such
street or public place at any point.
B.
The application for such permit shall state the kind
and character of material to be stored or placed in such public street
or place, the exact location where the same is to be stored or placed,
and the maximum length of time that such obstruction shall continue.
The Superintendent may impose conditions in any permit issued under
this section with respect to keeping the sidewalk open for travel
and any other conditions which he shall deem proper in the interest
of the public safety and convenience. Such permit shall be kept posted
in a conspicuous place on or near the material and shall be kept there
so as to be readily accessible to inspection.
[Amended 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 658]
A.
No person shall organize or conduct or assist in the
organization or conduct of any parade upon any of the public streets
or public places without obtaining a permit therefor from the Borough
Clerk.
B.
The Borough Clerk shall not issue any such permit
until an application therefor shall have been submitted to the Mayor
and Council at a regular or special meeting and such permission has
been granted and a permit authorized by a resolution of the Mayor
and Council.
No person shall place any sign or advertisement
or other matter upon any pole, tree, curbstone, sidewalk or elsewhere
in any public street or public place, excepting such as may be authorized
by this or any other ordinance of the Borough.
No person shall injure, deface, obliterate,
remove, take down or disturb or in any other manner interfere with
or disturb any signboard containing the name of any street or public
place, or any bulletin board, or sign or notice erected, posted or
placed, bearing the name of the Mayor and Council or any officer of
the Borough.
No person, firm or corporation shall place or
permit to be placed any ashes, garbage, dirt, paper, tree limbs or
branches, garden refuse or other waste material upon any street or
public place, provided that clean ashes or sand may be placed upon
ice which has formed upon any sidewalk.
A.
No resident
or agent of the resident shall place or deposit any such garden waste
or litter as referenced herein at the curb or in the street or upon
such sidewalk at any such other time as prescribed Borough policy
or by specific agreement with the DPW. Jurisdiction for enforcement
shall be the Property Maintenance Inspector.
[Added 11-9-2020 by Ord. No. 748]
(1)
Property owners who were in violation of said provisions shall be
given notice of such violation either by mail or delivery to the owner
of such property, who shall be given 10 days to properly bundle and
dispose of such litter consistent with the Borough policies established
for its removal;
(2)
Any such property owner failing to rectify such violation as prescribed
herein shall be issued a summons, the penalty for which shall be $250
per day for each day that the violation continues. In addition, at
the direction of the court if necessary, the DPW may remove such encroaching
material on a time and material basis, costs to be certified by CFO
and which will be added to any fine.
No person, firm or corporation shall burn any
leaves or other waste material or cause the same to be burned upon
any street or public place.
No person shall throw or place, or permit or
aid the throwing or placing of, glass, tacks or other like sharp substance
upon any street or public place.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 44-35, Damaging or removing
safety devices prohibited, which immediately followed this section,
was repealed 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 658.
No person shall open any manhole or remove the
cover thereof unless such opening shall be guarded by a guardrail
and shall be so marked both day and night as to be plainly seen at
a distance of 50 feet, which guardrail shall be maintained so long
as such manhole shall remain opened or uncovered.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 44-37, Coasting or sledding,
which immediately followed this section, was repealed 4-18-2011 by
Ord. No. 658.
[Amended 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 658]
The Superintendent of Public Works may close
any street or public place or section thereof to public traffic for
the purpose of repairing, constructing or reconstructing the same.
When any street or public place or portion thereof is closed, there
shall be a sign at each end of the portion closed, plainly visible
to approaching traffic, reading substantially as follows: "STREET
CLOSED." No person shall drive or cause to be propelled any vehicle
over said street or portion thereof so closed and marked as aforesaid.
No person, firm or corporation shall place or
erect any electric light, telegraph, telephone or other pole in or
upon any street or public place except pursuant to permission granted
by the Mayor and Council. No wires shall be run or strung upon any
pole at a distance less than 18 feet from the ground.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 44-40, Drains and connections
to storm sewers, which immediately followed this section, was repealed
4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 658.
It shall be the responsibility of the Department
of Public Works to maintain the pavement of and to clear snow from
all streets and thoroughfares which have been accepted by ordinance
duly adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough. The Department
of Public Works shall not undertake the maintenance of or snow removal
from any street or highway which has not been accepted by ordinance,
except by resolution of the Mayor and Council authorizing such work.
No person, firm or corporation shall cast or
throw ice or snow upon a public street or thoroughfare from which
snow has been plowed or removed.
It shall be the responsibility of any person,
firm or corporation owning or operating trucks from which earth, stones
or similar debris has been dumped or spilled upon any street or thoroughfare
to remove the same.
No mortar, concrete or similar material shall
be mixed or placed upon the surface of any street or sidewalk.
