[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Easttown 10-3-1994 by Ord. No. 275-94. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 395.
The following words and phrases shall have the meanings as set
forth hereinafter when used in this chapter:
Includes any vehicle, or portion thereof, parked, stalled,
incapable of moving under its own power or left unattended, resting
upon or protruding over any portion of a public roadway.
A natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation
or similar entity.
Each publicly maintained street, highway, lane or way open
to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Snow, ice, sleet or other form of frozen precipitation.
A condition which, because of the accumulation of snow, ice,
freezing rain or similar condition, in the opinion of the Township
Manager or designee, creates a hazard or danger to vehicular and/or
pedestrian travel and is declared as such by the Manager or designee
or is so defined in this chapter or the regulations adopted pursuant
thereto.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
may be transported or drawn upon a highway, which device must be licensed
for such use by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or other governmental
jurisdiction.
For purposes of the implementation of parking regulations, a
snow emergency shall be deemed to exist, whether or not declared by
the Township Manager or designee, at such time as the depth of snow
shall accumulate to the depth of two inches on public roadways within
the Township.
Once a snow emergency has been declared or otherwise arises
pursuant to the terms of this chapter, such emergency shall be deemed
to continue until such time as the Township Manager or designee shall
declare that such emergency has been terminated.
Any vehicle parked, stalled, left unattended or otherwise unable
to be moved under its own power upon any public roadway within the
Township during a snow emergency shall be deemed to be in violation
of the provisions of this chapter and any regulations adopted hereunder.
No person shall deposit in any manner any snow upon any public
roadways within the Township during a snow emergency.
During the continuance of a snow emergency, the person owning,
occupying or otherwise responsible for the property abutting such
sidewalk shall maintain such sidewalk in accordance with this chapter
and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
The Supervisors of Easttown Township shall have the power to
adopt, amend and revise rules and regulations to implement the purposes
of this chapter.
[Amended 10-7-1996 by Ord. No. 293-96[1]]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge 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 costs of prosecution, including reasonable
attorneys' fees. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may
be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each
day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted
to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section
of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate
offense.
