[Adopted 2-20-1996 by Ord. No. 71]
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice on or in any public sidewalk, street, roadway or highway or next
to a fire hydrant or any loading or unloading areas of a public transportation
system, except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation and by Pocono Township on public roadways,
streets and highways incident to the cleaning thereof and mounded
on curbs incident to the clearing of public sidewalks.
This article shall be enforced by action brought before a Magisterial
District Judge in the same manner provided for the enforcement of
summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Any person, partnership, corporation or other entity who or which
violates or permits a violation of the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding, pay a fine of not
more than $1,000, plus the costs of prosecution, and, in default of
the payment of the fine and costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned
for a period not exceeding 30 days.
