[Ord. 2017-01, 1/12/2017]
As used in this Part 3, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or
any other legal entity.
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 of the public.
The entire width between the boundary lines of any street,
road, thoroughfare, highway, avenue, lane, place, way, alley, footpath,
sidewalk, or public property owned, controlled or maintained by the
Township or state within the Township, or any part thereof, which
is opened to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
[Ord. 2017-01, 1/12/2017]
1.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land
fronting or abutting on a paved sidewalk, 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 as is in front of
or abuts on said building or lot of land.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection 1B 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 Subsection 1A 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.
C.
Any person in charge or control of a paved sidewalk who fails to
remove snow and ice in a timely fashion or in a width as required
herein, shall be given notice that person shall have two hours in
addition to clear the path in the sidewalk consistent with this Part.
In the case where any such person shall fail, refuse or neglect to
comply with such notice, the Township may cause a pathway to be cleared
in such sidewalk at least 36 inches in width, and the cost thereof,
together with any additional penalty authorized by law, may be collected
by the Township from such person as provided by law.
[Ord. 2017-01, 1/12/2017]
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 24 hours
after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet, or freezing rain.
[Ord. 2017-01, 1/12/2017]
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 on public
cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident
to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. 2017-01, 1/12/2017]
Any person violating the provisions of this Part shall be subject
to a fine not to exceed $1,000 together with costs of prosecution,
including attorneys' fees, and/or imprisonment of not more than 90
days. Each day of violation of this Part shall be a separate violation.
