As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context:
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
The portion of a street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
any other legal entity.
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 the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel.
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.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within 12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.
In the event that snow and/or ice on a sidewalk has become so hard that it cannot be removed without likelihood of damage to the sidewalk, the person charged with its removal shall, within the time mentioned in Subsection A hereof, cause enough sand or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk to make travel reasonably safe and shall, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause to be cleared a path in said sidewalk of at least 30 inches in width.
Every person in charge or control of any building or other structure,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall remove
and clear away or cause to be removed and cleared away any accumulation
of snow and ice on said building or other structure which is liable
to fall on any sidewalk, roadway or other public way. Such work shall
be completed within a reasonable time, but not later than 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 and ice may be mounded by the Borough on public cartways
incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident to the
clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding under the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus court costs
and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement
proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction,
or by proceedings by summons on default of the payment of the fine
or penalty imposed and the costs, the defendant may be sentenced and
committed to the Borough correctional facility for a period not exceeding
10 days or to the county correctional facility for a period not exceeding
30 days. Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement
under this section, the Borough may enforce this article in equity
in the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County.
