As used in this article, 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 curblines, 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.
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.
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 Township of Warrington
on public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on
curbs incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Amended 2-10-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this article, 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 article continues or each section of this article which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense. This article may be enforced initially by violation ticket (citation); see Chapter
38, Ordinance Enforcement Procedures, Article
II, Tickets for Certain Offenses.