[Adopted 2-26-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-3]
As used in this article, the term "sidewalk" shall have the
meaning indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from
the context:
Portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral
lines of a cartway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for
use by pedestrians; and also included within the definition is an
area of two feet surrounding any fire hydrant.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of
land fronting or abutting on a sidewalk located on the streets as
identified within Schedule A attached hereto, which said schedule
may be amended from time to time by the Hilltown Township Board of
Supervisors by resolution, 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; and also from an area of two feet surrounding
any fire hydrant.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B 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 A hereof, cause enough abrasive material 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.
A.
In the event of the failure of any person to clear away or treat
with abrasives and subsequently clear away any snow and ice from any
sidewalk as provided in this article, or cause this to be done, the
Township Manager, as soon as practical after the failure, shall cause
this work to be accomplished.
B.
Each person, whose act or omission makes it necessary that the Township
shall cause work to be done in accordance with this section, shall
be liable to the Township for the costs of such work plus an administrative
fee of 10% of said cost. It shall be the duty of the Township Manager
or other appropriate Township official to sue for such costs and penalties;
and it shall be the duty of the Solicitor to assist in the bringing
of said suit.
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 or
roadway, except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Township of
Hilltown on public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded
on curbs incident to the clearing of sidewalks.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not more than
$600, and costs, and in default of payment, to imprisonment for a
term not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation continues shall
constitute a separate offense.
All articles or parts of articles which are inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed. The following articles or parts thereof are specifically
repealed.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: So in original; nothing specific was included.
If any sentence, clause, section, or part of this article is
for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such
unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or
impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections
or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent of Hilltown
Township that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional,
illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been
included herein.
This article shall become effective on March 2, 2007.
