[1]
Editor's Note: For statutory authority of a municipality
to compel removal of snow and ice, grass, weeds and other impediments
from sidewalks and gutters, see N.J.S.A. 40:65-12.
[Ord. No. 8-61, § 1]
The owner or tenant in possession of any lands abutting or bordering
upon the sidewalks and gutters of any public streets of the Borough
shall remove or cause to be removed from the abutting sidewalks and
gutters:
[Ord. No. 8-61, § 3]
The notice referred to in Section 20-1(b) of this article shall
be in writing, authorized by resolution of the Council, and shall
be either personally served on said owner or tenant or mailed by registered
or certified mail, return receipt requested. Said notice shall identify
the premises involved and describe the matter to be removed.
[Ord. No. 8-61, § 2]
The owner or tenant of any lands in the Borough shall remove
all grass, weeds and impediments from that portion of any street or
highway in said Borough between the curb, or, where there is no curb,
between the edge of the permanent pavement and the outside right-of-way
line or boundary of said street or highway.
[Ord. No. 8-61, § 4]
(a)
In the event that the owner or tenant of any such lands should fail
to remove such snow, ice, grass, weeds and impediments as provided
in this article, the Borough shall cause the same to be removed.
(b)
The cost of removal of any such snow, ice, grass, weeds or impediments
from any sidewalk or street or highway by the Borough shall be certified
to the Borough Council by the road superintendent or any other officer
or employee actually in charge of said work of removal. The Borough
Council shall examine such certificate and, if the same is found to
be correct, shall by resolution cause such cost to be charged against
such real estate so abutting upon such sidewalk or portion of such
street or highway. The amount so charged shall thereupon become a
lien and tax upon such real estate and be added to and be part of
the taxes next to be levied and assessed thereon, and enforced and
collected with interest by the same officers and in the same manner
as other taxes.
[Ord. No. 8-61, §§ 4, 5; 19-69, § 1]
(a)
The provisions of Section 1-9 of these Revised Ordinances shall be
applicable to this article.
(b)
The imposition and collection of any penalty imposed by the provisions
of paragraph "(a)" of this section shall not constitute any bar to
the right of the Borough to collect the cost of removal as provided
in Section 20-4.
