Township of Verona, NJ Article I Numbering of Buildings; Maintenance of Sidewalks

[Adopted 8-20-1963 (Ch. 125, Art. I, of the 1981 Code)]

§ 460-1 Numbering required; map conformity.

The numbers of all houses and business establishments in the Township shall correspond with the numbers on the current Tax Map of the Township filed in the office of the Township Engineer. It shall be the duty of all property owners to have their houses and business establishments numbered in conformity with the numbers designated on such current Tax Map.

§ 460-2 Owner responsible for numbering; placement.

In all cases where any number is or shall be hereafter placed on the Tax Map by the Township Engineer, it shall be the duty of the owner thereof to apply to the Tax Assessor of the Township for the correct number of such house or business establishment as the same is indicated on the current Tax Map, and upon such application, the Tax Assessor shall furnish to the applicant the correct number of such property, and the property owners shall thereupon place or affix to the front of such house or business establishment the number as designated on the current Tax Map by the Assessor.

§ 460-3 Notification of nonconformity; official action for noncompliance.

If the owner of any house or business establishment erected upon any street where the number appears upon the current Tax Map shall fail to number or cause to be numbered such house or business establishment in conformity with the number designated on the current Tax Map as referred to in the preceding section, after 10 days' written notice from the Township Clerk, by ordinary mail addressed to the last known address of the owner, the owner shall be punished as provided in § 460-51.

§ 460-4 Maintenance of sidewalk area required after notification.

The owners or tenants of lands abutting or bordering upon the sidewalks of the public streets, avenues and highways in the Township shall remove or cause to be removed from the sidewalks, from the curb to the property line, in front of or bordering on their lands, all grass, weeds and other impediments thereon, within three days after notice from the Township Engineer to remove the same.

§ 460-5 Noncompliance; subsequent action by Township officer.

In case the owner or tenant of any land abutting or bordering upon any public street, avenue or highway in the Township shall neglect or refuse to remove such grass, weeds and other impediments within three days after notice to remove same, it shall be the duty of the Township Engineer or such person as may be designated by the Council to remove or cause to be removed such grass, weeds and other impediments from the sidewalk in front of or bordering on such land.

§ 460-6 Lien for cost of maintenance.

The cost paid and incurred by the Township Engineer or such person as may be designated by the Council for removing such grass, weeds and other impediments from any sidewalk as required by the preceding section shall be by him certified to the Township Council, which shall examine such certificate and shall cause the cost as shown thereon to be charged against the lands abutting or bordering such sidewalk. The amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and shall be added to and become and form part of the taxes then next to be assessed and levied upon such lands and shall be collected and enforced according to law.

§ 460-7 Removal of snow and ice required; lien for noncompliance.

[Amended 2-4-1964]

A. The owner or tenant of land fronting upon any street or public place (intended to include private streets open to the public) within the limits of the Township where a sidewalk has been graded shall, within 24 hours after a fall of snow or after a freezing of water into ice upon any sidewalk of whatsoever kind, in front of such land, remove such snow or ice from such sidewalks in front of such lands owned or occupied by them, and no such snow or ice shall be thrown onto the public street. Where snow or ice shall have become frozen to sidewalk so that it cannot be removed therefrom, such owner or tenant shall cause such snow or ice to be covered with sand or a comparable material.

B. In case of the refusal or neglect of such owner or tenant of land thereof to comply with this section, the Council may cause such snow or ice to be removed from such sidewalks, and the cost of removing such snow or ice as ascertained by the Council, with interest thereon, shall be added to and form a part of the taxes next to be levied and assessed upon such land, and shall be a lien upon such lands until the same shall be paid.