[Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 21-301]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
BUSINESS HOURS
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
CARTWAY
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
CORPORATION
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or
any other legal entity.
SIDEWALK
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.
STREET OR HIGHWAY
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. 907, 9/23/1996, § 21-302]
1. Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land
fronting or abutting on a paved sidewalk, fire hydrant, handicapped
ramp, and/or curb cut 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 36 inches in
width from so much of said sidewalk, fire hydrant, handicapped ramp,
and/or curb cut as is in front of or abuts on said building or lot
of land.
A. Except as provided in paragraph .B hereof, snow and ice shall be
removed from sidewalks within 24 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 paragraph .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 36 inches in width.
[Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 21-303]
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 a reasonable time, but not later than 12 hours
after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet, or freezing rain.
[Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 21-304]
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 on public cartways
incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident to the
clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. 907, 9/23/1996, § 21-305; as amended by Ord.
1005, 5/23/2011]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine 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
continues shall constitute a separate offense.