[Adopted 5-16-1994 by Ord. No. 528B-94; amended in its entirety 4-16-2015 by Ord. No. 12-15]
The owner(s), occupant(s) and tenant(s) of any premises abutting
any public street or roadway within the Township shall remove all
snow, hail, sleet and ice from the full width of sidewalks abutting
the respective premises as well as fire hydrants within 24 hours after
the termination of any snowfall or accumulation of snow, hail, sleet
or ice, whichever shall have occurred. In the event that the ice may
be so frozen as to make removal impracticable, the owner(s), occupant(s)
and tenant(s) of the abutting premises shall cause the sidewalk to
be fairly covered with sand, ashes, sawdust, cinders or ice-melting
product within 24 hours of the accumulation of such ice.
[Amended 4-4-2019 by Ord.
No. 11-19]
No person, firm, corporation, owner, tenant or occupant of any
premises abutting on any street shall throw, place or deposit any
snow or ice into or upon any sidewalk or street in the Township. No
person shall, except under the direction or with the consent of the
Township, plow or otherwise place snow in the unimproved portion of
the public right of way except in an area directly adjacent to their
property. It is also the intent and purpose of this provision to prohibit
any person from throwing, placing, plowing or depositing snow or ice
which accumulates on private property so as to obstruct any fire hydrant
in said Township.
The owners of any condominium and/or garden apartment complexes
located within the Township shall remove all ice and snow from the
sidewalks, fire hydrants, roadways and parking areas of such complexes
within 12 hours of daylight after the same shall fall or be formed
thereon.
All properties adjacent to Route 46 are subject to the same
restrictions regarding the removal of snow as are all other properties
located within the Township.
Any person or firm violating any of the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined $50 for the first, second
and third offenses, and $100 for the fourth and subsequent offenses.
Each and every forty-eight-hour period that such violations continue
shall be considered a separate and distinct offense.
Upon the failure of the owner or tenant to remove or provide
for the removal of such snow and ice, the Township may remove the
same, and the costs thereof shall be chargeable and assessable against
the lands abutting upon the public highways in the Township or such
condominium or garden apartment complex from which the snow and ice
is removed as follows:
A.
The officer or employee of the Township in charge of the removal
thereof shall certify the costs thereof to the Township Council.
B.
The Township Council shall examine such certificate and, if found
to be correct, shall cause such costs to be charged against such lands
after affording the owner a reasonable opportunity to appear before
the Township Council or its designated agent.
C.
The amount so charged shall thereupon become a lien or tax upon such
real estate and be added and be a 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.
