[Ord. No. 171, 9/10/1962; as amended by Ord. No. 288, 8/8/1994]
As used in this Part, 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 curb lines, 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.
[Ord. No. 171, 9/10/1962; as amended by Ord. No. 288, 8/8/1994]
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
30 inches in width from so much of said sidewalk as is in front of
or abuts on said building or lot of land.
2. Except as provided in Subsection
3 hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within 12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
3. 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
2 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 30 inches in width.
[Ord. No. 171, 9/10/1962; as amended by Ord. No. 288, 8/8/1994]
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.
[Ord. No. 171, 9/10/1962; as amended by Ord. No. 288, 8/8/1994]
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 Borough on public cartways
incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident to the
clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. No. 171, 9/10/1962; as amended by Ord. No. 288, 8/8/1994]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not more than
$600 plus costs, and in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a
violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.