[Ord. 608, 6/9/1987, § 101]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or
any other legal entity.
Portion of a street between the curblines or the lateral
lines of a cartway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use
by pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public
for purposes of vehicular travel.
[Ord. 608, 6/9/1987, § 102]
1.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land
fronting or abutting on a sidewalk, whether as owner, tenant, occupant,
lessee or otherwise, shall remove and clear away or cause to be removed
or cleared away snow and/or ice from a path of at least 30 inches
in width from so much of said sidewalk as is in front of or abuts
on said building or lot of land.
A.
Snow and ice shall be removed from the sidewalks in all areas no
later than 6:00 p.m. of the day following the cessation of the fall
of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.
In the event that snow or ice on the sidewalk becomes so hard that
it cannot be removed without likelihood of damage to the sidewalk,
the person charged with its removal shall, within the time mentioned
above, cause enough sand or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk
to make travel reasonably safe, and shall, as soon thereafter as weather
permits, cause to be cleared a path in said sidewalk of at least 30
inches in width.
[Ord. 608, 6/9/1987, § 103]
Every person in charge or control of any building or other structure,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall remove
and clear away or cause to be removed and cleared away any accumulation
of snow and ice on said building or other structure which is liable
to fall on any sidewalk, roadway or other public way. Such work shall
be completed within the times set forth above for the removal of snow
or ice.
[Ord. 608, 6/9/1987, § 104]
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway
or loading and unloading areas of a public transportation system,
except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Borough of Oxford on
public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs
incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. 608, 6/9/1987, § 105]
In any case where the property owner shall fail, neglect or
refuse to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this Part,
the Borough Council may cause, through the Borough Manager, its employees
or others, at its discretion, to enter upon the premises of such defaulting
property owner and remove all accumulated snow, ice or freezing rain
at the expense of the property owner, and the cost of such work, plus
10%, with interest from the time of completion, shall constitute a
lien against the property. The Borough of Oxford shall have full authority
to collect such costs, expenses, charges, penalties and interest in
like manner as any other municipal claim or collect it by action in
assumpsit, which procedure may be in addition to any fine or penalty
imposed under the following section.
[Ord. 608, 6/9/1987, § 106; 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.
