The following definitions shall apply as to the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or association
of persons, and the single number shall include the plural.
ROADWAY
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
SHOPPING CENTER
Any commercial establishment that provides off-street parking
for patrons.
SIDEWALK
That portion of a street other than the roadway normally
between the curb and the property line of the street.
STREET or HIGHWAY
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
[Added 3-14-2011 by Ord.
No. 11-05; amended at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Every person in charge or control of any building, structure
or lot within the Township, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee
or otherwise, on which there is located a fire hydrant, shall remove
all snow and ice from around such fire hydrant sufficient to allow
proper and immediate access to such fire hydrant for fire protection
purposes, and in no event shall such person permit snow and/or ice
to obstruct access to such fire hydrant after 24 hours after the cessation
of the fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice:
A. On or against a fire hydrant.
B. On a traveled portion of roadway in a manner that impedes or interferes
with flow of traffic.
No person shall cause the accumulation of snow and ice on any
street or roadway in such a manner as to endanger pedestrians or obstruct
the vision of motorists. In no event shall snow or ice be or be caused
to be piled on any corner by any person within 10 feet of any intersection
in excess of four feet in height which would tend to obstruct a motorist's
vision.