[Adopted 4-8-1946 by Ord. No. 37; amended in its entirety 11-17-1987 by Ord. No.
456 (Ch. 21, Part 3, of the 1987 Code of Ordinances)]
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.
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.
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.Â
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.Â
In the event 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 Township on public
cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident
to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
A.Â
A developer owning or having an interest in undedicated streets and
roadways adjoining houses or lots being developed by said developer
shall enter into a contract with the Township for the removal of snow
on said undedicated streets and roadways. A developer entering into
an agreement with the Township shall pay the reasonable charges incurred
by the Township in the removal of the snow from the said undedicated
streets and roadways.
B.Â
Any developer who does not enter into a contract with the Township
for the removal of snow on undedicated streets and roadways shall
remove said snow within four hours after notification by the Township
that said streets and roadways are unplowed. Said developer shall
provide the Secretary of the Township with his or its address and
phone number. The developer who has hired an outside contractor for
the removal of snow shall provide the name, address and phone number
of said contractor or person employed to remove snow for said developer.
C.Â
Any developer who fails to remove the snow on said undedicated streets
and roadways, or fails to enter into a contract with the Township
for the removal of said snow, shall be liable for the cost of removing
said snow by the Township. Any cost for the removal of snow incurred
by Township may be collected from escrow funds provided by the developer
for the completion of municipal improvements.
[Amended 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 465[1]]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $1,000, together with the costs of prosecution,
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, shall be subject
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Every day that a
violation of this article continues shall constitute a separate offense.
