Township of Irvington, NJ
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2024-02-26
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 555 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article III Construction and Repair of Sidewalks
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Administration
- Ch 13 Attendance at Meetings
- Ch 18 Audit Reports and Expense
- Ch 22 Commissions, Committees, Councils and Other Agencies
- Ch 24 (Reserved)
- Ch 26 Court, Municipal
- Ch 32 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 37 Employment Applications
- Ch 49 First Source Employment Linkage Program
- Ch 91 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 96 Portrait Photographs
- Ch 100 Purchasing
- Ch 105 Residency Requirements
- Ch 110 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 114 Sexual Harassment
- Ch 120 Township-Owned Property
- Ch 122 Township-Owned Vehicles
- Ch 128 Urban Enterprise Zone
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 140 Abandoned Property
- Ch 149 Air Pollution
- Ch 154 Alarm Systems
- Ch 158 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 163 Amusement Games in Amusement Parks
- Ch 167 Animals
- Ch 174 Barbershops
- Ch 180 Beauty Products, Hair Braiding and Nail Salons
- Ch 192 Bowling Alleys
- Ch 200 Buildings, Moving or Demolition of
- Ch 222 Claims Against Township
- Ch 229 Coin-Operated Machines and Vending Machines
- Ch 234 Condominium and Cooperative Conversions
- Ch 240 Construction Code, Uniform
- Ch 245 Contractors, Licensing of
- Ch 249 Curfew
- Ch 253 Dances and Dance Halls
- Ch 255 Day-Care Facilities
- Ch 266 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 277 Employer Regulations
- Ch 282 Escrow Fees for Redevelopment and Foreclosure Matters
- Ch 290 Fees and Licenses
- Ch 294 Fences
- Ch 299 Filming
- Ch 304 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 307 Fire Prevention
- Ch 313 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 318 Florists
- Ch 324 Food Establishments
- Ch 331 Games of Chance
- Ch 336 Golf Courses, Miniature
- Ch 342 Graffiti
- Ch 355 Housing Standards
- Ch 360 Junk Dealers
- Ch 365 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 369 Laundromats
- Ch 374 Library Rules
- Ch 380 Littering
- Ch 390 Murals and Public Art
- Ch 397 Noise
- Ch 402 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 409 Obscene Materials
- Ch 413 Outdoor Dining
- Ch 415 Parades
- Ch 419 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 428 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 439 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 443 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 449 Pest Control
- Ch 455 Poolrooms and Billiard Rooms
- Ch 460 Property Maintenance
- Ch 462 Records
- Ch 464 Registration of Commercial and Multifamily Properties
- Ch 467 Rental Property
- Ch 472 Rent Control
- Ch 478 Sales
- Ch 483 Sanitary Sewer Laterals
- Ch 491 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 499 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 508 Shopping Carts
- Ch 510 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 513 Signs and Billboards
- Ch 524 Smoking
- Ch 535 Solid Waste and Recycling
- Ch 544 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 550 Stormwater Management
- Ch 555 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 555 Art III Construction and Repair of Sidewalks
- § 555-68 Maintenance in good condition; responsibility for repairs to sidewalks, curbs, gutters and driveway aprons.
- § 555-69 Materials and manner of construction generally.
- § 555-70 Inspections.
- § 555-71 Grades.
- § 555-72 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 560 Subdivision and Site Plan Review
- Ch 566 Sunday Construction
- Ch 571 Swimming Pools
- Ch 577 Taxation
- Ch 582 Taxicabs
- Ch 586 Tax Liens
- Ch 593 Theaters, Motion-Picture
- Ch 598 Tobacco Products, Sale of
- Ch 604 Towing
- Ch 610 Trees
- Ch 620 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 632 Video Stores
- Ch 639 Water
- Ch 650 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A670 Cable Television and Communications System
- Ch A675 Communications Facilities Franchises
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 1-13-1981 by Ord. No. MC 2622 as Ch. 171, Art. III, of the 1981
Revised Code]
[Amended 7-14-2009 by Ord. No. MC 3407; 7-1-2014 by Ord. No. MC 3511; 11-23-2020 by Ord. No. MC 3740]
A.
All sidewalks in streets, roads and highways in the Town shall be
kept in good repair and condition to ensure for the public the safe
and comfortable use of the same, and if any owner of land in front
of which sidewalks have been constructed shall allow such sidewalk
to become out of repair and unsafe for public use, the Municipal Council,
through the Director of the Department of Public Works or his designated
agent, may order the owner to construct and repair such sidewalk at
the owner's expense.
B.
Any person owning any land fronting upon any public street or highway
within the Township of Irvington shall keep all sidewalks, curbs,
monolithic curbs, gutters, catch basins and driveway aprons fronting
said land clean and free of debris, trash and in good repair up 18
inches from the curb/gutter. Specifically, property owners are required
to remove trash and other debris from above and around the catch basins
and ensure no garbage is on top of storm drains.
Every repair referred to in § 555-68 shall be made of the kind of material and after the manner of construction existing in such sidewalk so out of repair or needing construction.
[Amended 7-14-2009 by Ord. No. MC 3407; 7-1-2014 by Ord. No. MC 3511]
The Director of the Department of Public Works or his designated agent may provide for the doing of any work referred to in § 555-68 under inspection by inspectors to be selected and appointed by him.
Where the grade of the street, road or highway or the section
thereof along which any construction or repair of sidewalks is proposed
to be made has been established by law, such improvement shall be
made to conform as nearly as practicable to the grade so established.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former §§ 171-72 through 171-82
of the 1981 Revised Code, regarding improvements to sidewalks and
notices and assessments for such improvements, which previously followed
this section, were repealed 11-26-1985 by Ord. No. MC 2799.
