[Adopted by Ord. No. 60-64 (Sec. 13-6 of the 1987 Revised General Ordinances)]
All owners of property abutting on any public streets or highway
within the Borough limits shall remove from the sidewalks all grass,
weeds, shrubbery and overhanging branches of trees which may interfere
with pedestrians on the sidewalk, and shall cause the same to be kept
trimmed.
It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Utilities to
give notice to all property owners of any violation on their part
of this article and requiring the property owners to trim and cut
the hanging branches of trees as aforesaid within 10 days from the
receipt of the notice, and in default of compliance therewith, the
work shall be done by the Director of Public Utilities, and the cost
thereof, having been certified to the Mayor and Council by the Director
of Public Utilities and found correct, shall be charged against the
lands abutting or bordering such sidewalks, and become a lien upon
such lands and be added to and become in form part of the taxes next
to be assessed and levied upon the lands, to bear interest at the
same rate as taxes and to be collected and enforced by the same officers
and in the same manner.
The notice herein required shall be served upon an owner or
tenant residing in the Borough in person or by leaving the same with
a member of his family over the age of 14 years; upon an owner or
tenant not residing in the Borough either by personal service or by
mailing the same to him at his last known post office address or by
service upon the occupant, manager, operator or agent of the owner
in charge of the property. In the event the owner or tenant is unknown
or service cannot, for any reason, be made, the notice shall be published
at least once not less than 30 days before the proposed removal and
destruction in a newspaper circulating in the Borough.
