[Adopted 10-7-1997 by Ord. No. 106-1997]
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Snow Removal
Ordinance."
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any street, highway or road that is open to the public as
a matter of right or custom, or is used as a means of ingress or egress
to a housing development or similar complex, or any portions thereof,
but which is not owned or maintained by either the Township of Carroll
or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Any improved pavement or part thereof fronting or alongside
of a street or highway, or within the curbline and the property line
of said street or highway, or between the property line and the vehicular
driveway; any unimproved or ground surface area or part thereof fronting
or along side of a street or highway and located within the curbline
and the property line, or between the property line and the vehicular
driveway, if such area is used or usable as a walkway by the general
public.
Any snow, ice, slush, or any combination thereof, that has
fallen, formed, or accumulated on the ground.
A.
The owner, occupant or tenant of every property fronting upon or
along side of any of the streets or highways of the Township of Carroll
is hereby required to remove or cause to be removed all snow from
all of the sidewalks in front of or along side of such property including
that portion of the driveway where the sidewalk crosses the driveway,
for a minimum width of three feet measured from the curbline toward
the property line if there is no grass plot separating the curb from
an improved pavement, or for a minimum width of three feet measured
from the line of the improved pavement located along the grass plot
toward the property line, if there is a grass plot separating the
curb from an improved pavement, but in no case exceeding the width
of the sidewalk, within 24 hours after said snow shall have ceased
to fall, to form or accumulate on such sidewalks, unless said snow
is so hardened or frozen that it cannot be so removed without injury
to the sidewalk, in which latter event, the owner, occupant or tenant
is hereby required to place salt, sand, or other abrasive material
upon said snow within the time above provided.
B.
Any owner, occupant, tenant, or any person who removes snow from
the sidewalks or from any other place for an owner, within the Township
of Carroll, shall not place the same on any public street, road, highway,
or thoroughfare when removing such snow, whether or not the public
street, road, highway,[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: So in original.
Any owner, occupant, tenant, or any person who removes snow
from a private roadway, within the Township of Carroll, shall not
place the same snow on any public street, road, highway, or thoroughfare
when removing such snow, whether or not the public street, road, highway,
or thoroughfare had been plowed or cleared for the purpose of allowing
free and safe passage of vehicular traffic.
In any case where the owner, occupant, tenant or person as aforesaid, shall fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with any of the provisions in this article or within the time limit prescribed therein, the Township of Carroll may, in its discretion, proceed immediately to remove the snow from the sidewalk of owner, occupant, tenant or person, and to collect the expenses thereof, with any additional amount allowed by law, from such owner, occupant, tenant or person which may be in addition to any fine or penalty imposed under § 334-25 of this article. Such expenses shall be added to any penalty, fine or costs as restitution payable to the Township of Carroll.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any owner, occupant, tenant or person who violates any section of this article shall pay a fine or penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $600 for violation of § 334-21 or not less than $75 nor more than $600 for violation of § 334-22, plus court costs. Such fine or penalty and costs may be in addition to any expenses and additional amounts authorized by law, imposed as provided under other sections of this article. If the Township of Carroll removes the snow under § 334-23 of this article, the cost of such removal shall be added as restitution to any fine imposed. Each offense and each day of a continuing offense shall be considered a separate violation of this article.
