[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
1.
PERSON
SIDEWALK
STREET
Definitions. The following words, for the purpose of this Part, shall
have the meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
The sidewalk area alongside any street or alley in the Borough,
comprising the paved portion thereof, the curb and, where the same
may be provided for, the grassplot between the curb and pavement.
The cartway and, where the same shall be provided for, the
gutter of any public street or alley in the Borough.
2.
Word Usage. In this Part, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular and the masculine shall include
the feminine and the neuter.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
The following regulations shall govern the construction and/or maintenance of certain obstructions and encroachments upon and over the streets and sidewalks in the Borough of Oxford, but nothing herein shall authorize the future construction of any encroachment in any location where the same could not lawfully be constructed under the provisions of the Borough's Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27].
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
It shall be unlawful to erect any overhanging bay or oriel window
to extend more than two feet beyond the property line, and all such
windows as may be constructed under the provisions hereof shall be
constructed with the lowest part thereof at least nine feet six inches
above the pavement grade.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
It shall be unlawful to construct any porch, steps, cellar door,
platform or areaway that shall extend more than four feet into the
sidewalk along a street that shall be 60 feet or more in width, and
proportionately along a street that shall be less than 60 feet in
width, but in every case there shall be a clear, travelable width
of at least four feet of paved sidewalk beside such encroachment.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
It shall be unlawful to erect, install or maintain any fixed
awning extending above any sidewalk or to erect, install or maintain
any movable awning unless all parts of the same shall be at least
seven feet above the surface of the sidewalk.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 21-406, Storage and Display
of Merchandise on Sidewalks, adopted by Ord. No. 454, 2/10/1969, was
repealed by Ord. No. 955-2022, 11/21/2023.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
With special permission of the Building Inspector, where there
shall be no other practicable means of storing the same, the holder
of a building permit may, for the limited time stated in such permit,
store building material and/or equipment and supplies required in
such construction work upon the sidewalk and/or street directly in
front of the lot on which such construction work is being done, provided
that no more than 1/3 of the width of such street or sidewalk shall
be used for the storage thereof. Such street or sidewalk shall not
be blocked up so as to prevent the free passage of water, and warning
lights shall be placed on and about such obstruction during hours
when there shall not be sufficient natural light to observe the same.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969; as added by Ord. 731, 4/20/1998]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation
or any employee or agent thereof to park or leave standing or to permit
the parking or standing of any motor vehicle, trailer, tractor, motorized
cycle or like conveyance (vehicle), whether attended or unattended,
for the purpose of making repairs or renovations to such vehicle or
to put such vehicle up on blocks or to make repairs or renovations
to such vehicle on any part of any street, avenue, alley or public
parking lot in the Borough, except when the vehicle is disabled while
on said street, avenue or alley in such manner and to such extent
that it is impossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving such
vehicle in such position and to make temporary repairs thereto for
the purpose of moving the same as soon as may reasonably be done.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
It shall be unlawful to drain water from the roof of any building
upon or onto any sidewalk, and whenever water from the roof of a building
shall be taken to the front of the lot, the owner of such building
shall cause piping to be laid under the pavement and through the curb
to the gutter. No other house drainage shall be taken to the street
gutter.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969]
Any obstruction or encroachment prohibited by this Part shall
be removed by the owner of the property upon or abutting which the
same shall be located, upon notice from the Borough Council to do
so. If such property owner shall fail, neglect or refuse to remove
the same within the time limit specified in such notice, the Borough
Council may cause the same to be removed and shall collect the cost
of such removal, with an additional amount of 10%, from such defaulting
property owner.
[Ord. 454, 2/10/1969; as amended by Ord. 636, 5/23/1989,
§ 1-6; and by Ord. 810, 12/17/2007]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a
fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30
days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
