[Ord. 92, 12/10/2003, § 1]
The word "person," as used in this Part, shall mean and include
any natural person partnership, association, firm or corporation.
The singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the
singular; and the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.
[Ord. 92, 12/10/2003, § 2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to plant, maintain or allow
to grow any type of tree, ornamental shrubbery or bushes within the
right-of-way lines of any street, alley or sidewalk in the Township.
(Legal right-of-way line, where there is no curbing, is 33 feet or
16 1/2 feet from the center line of the right-of-way.
[Ord. 92, 12/10/2003, § 3]
Every owner of property in the Township shall be required to
keep limbs and branches of all trees growing upon property or along
the street, sidewalk, curb or alley abutting upon such property trimmed
so that no part of such limbs, branches or of the foliage growing
thereupon, shall have a clearance of less than eight feet above the
surface of the right-of-way or of less than 14 feet above the surface
of the roadway of any street or alley.
[Ord. 92, 12/10/2003, § 4]
It shall be the responsibility of property owners in the Township to conform to the requirements of this Part as to trees, ornamental shrubbery or bushes upon property owned by them, or along streets, alleys and sidewalks abutting upon such property, and upon notice from the Township Zoning Officer, to remove any tree or trees growing in violation of § 25-102 of this Part, and to trim or cut the branches or limbs of trees, shrubbery or bushes as required by § 25-103 hereof. Any person failing to comply with any ordinance and, following the expiration of such time limits, the Township Zoning Officer shall have authority to cause the work required by such notice to be done by the Township or under contract therewith, and to collect the cost of such work, with an additional amount of 10% from such property owner in default, plus the costs of collection and legal fees.
[Ord. 92, 12/10/2003, § 5; as amended by A.O.]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a magisterial district judge 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.
