[Adopted 4-10-1961 (Ch. 69 of the 1966 Code)]
[Amended 5-14-2002; 4-22-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
The owner or owners of premises abutting or bordering upon any street in the Borough of Raritan shall remove all snow and ice from the abutting sidewalks of such streets in order to make a cleaning no less than 24 inches in width or, in the case of ice which may be so frozen as to make removal impractical, shall cause same to be thoroughly covered with sand or ash within 12 hours of daylight after the same shall fall or be formed thereon.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 69-2, Duty of ground floor occupant, of the 1966 Code, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 5-14-2002.
No person, firm or corporation, owner, tenant or occupant of any premises abutting on any street shall throw, place or deposit any snow or ice into or upon any street in said Borough, it being the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit all persons from throwing, casting, placing or depositing snow and ice which accumulated within the private property belonging to said person upon the sidewalks or streets of the Borough of Raritan.
[Amended 5-14-2002]
In case such snow or ice shall not be removed from such sidewalks or shall be cast, deposited thereon or placed upon said sidewalks or said street by the owner or owners of any premises as provided in §§ 320-6 and 320-7 hereof, the same shall be removed forthwith under the direction of the Department of Public Works, and the cost of such removal, as nearly as can be ascertained, shall be certified by the Department of Public Works to the governing body of the Borough of Raritan. The governing body of said Borough of Raritan shall examine such certification and, if found to be correct, shall cause such costs to be charged against such real estate so abutting or bordering upon such sidewalks, and the amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien and a tax upon such real estate or land and be added to, recorded and collected in the same way and manner as taxes next to be levied and assessed upon such premises and shall bear interest and be enforced and collected by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes. The imposition and collection of a fine or fines imposed by the provisions of this article shall not constitute any bar to the right of the Borough of Raritan to collect the costs as certified for the removal of such snow or ice herein authorized.
[Amended 5-14-2002]
The provisions of this article shall be enforced by the Property Maintenance Code Officer. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon a determination of the first violation, be issued a warning of such violation, and a record of such warning shall be maintained in the Office of Property Maintenance. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this article after having been issued a warning shall be issued a summons requiring such person, firm or corporation to appear before the Municipal Court of the Borough of Raritan and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $50 and not more than $200 or imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days, or both. Each and every day in which a violation exists after a warning has been issued shall constitute a separate violation.