[Ord. 153, 9/21/1993, § 1]
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 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 curb lines, 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 pubic for
purposes of vehicular travel.
[Ord. 153, 9/21/1993, § 2]
1.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land
fronting or abutting on a paved 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 form so much of said sidewalk as is in front of
or abuts on said building or lot of land.
A.
Except as provided in subsection (B) hereof, snow and ice shall be
removed from sidewalks within 12 hours after the cessation of any
fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.
In the event snow and/or ice on a sidewalk has become 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
in subsection (A) hereof, 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. 153, 9/21/1993, § 3]
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or
ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant, mailbox 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 Township of
East Rockhill on public cartways incident to the clearing thereof
or mounded on curbs incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business
districts.
[Ord. 153, 9/21/1993; as amended by Ord. 192, 4/18/2000]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, 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 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
