[Ord. No. 62-152; Ord. No. 2015-1281 § 1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to make any opening or openings
in any of the public right of way or easement, of the township whether
paved or unpaved, except for the installation or replacement of utility
poles in the ordinary course of business, without first having obtained
from the township engineer a written permit for that purpose. An opening
shall be considered as any disturbance of the existing area in a public
right of way or easement which either repairs, replaces, restores
or installs certain features within the area, such as but not limited
to curb, sidewalk, driveway aprons, sanitary sewer laterals, and storm
leader drains or culverts.
[Ord. No. 62-152; Ord. No. 87-507 § 1; Ord. No. 2015-1281 § 2]
Before any permit for the opening of any public right of way
or easement, sidewalk, driveway apron, curb or gutter shall be issued
by the township engineer, there shall be filed in his office by the
applicant for such permit a plan showing the exact location of any
or all openings proposed together with a statement giving detailed
and complete information as to the character of the work proposed.
The applicant shall state a time for the completion of the work which,
in the opinion of the township engineer is reasonable. The application
shall remain permanently on file in the office of the township engineer.
[Ord. No. 62-152; Ord. No. 2015-1281 § 3]
Any person making a cut in any public right of way or easement
in the township under the authority of any permit which may be issued
by the engineer shall backfill the trench with care, using such methods
as the engineer may prescribe, and shall be responsible for the maintenance
of such trench in a safe and smooth condition until the final repair
is made. Failure to exercise such care and/or to maintain any trench
in a safe condition at all times shall be sufficient reason for the
engineer to refuse to issue any future permits to any person failing
to completely fulfill the responsibility herein imposed.
[Ord. No. 62-152]
All paving disturbed or removed in the making of any opening
in any public street or road within the township for any purpose whatsoever
by any person shall be restored and replaced by the person making
the opening under the supervision of the engineer and all work shall
be done subject to the inspection and approval of the engineer and
in accordance with such methods as he may prescribe.
[Ord. No. 62-152; Ord. No. 94-670 § 1; Ord. No. 2015-1281 § 4]
The engineer shall have authority to formulate rules and regulations
which shall govern the methods and materials to be used in opening
and restoring any public right of way or easement, sidewalk, driveway
apron, curb or gutter in the township including the cutting and removal
of paving over the trench, back-filling, restoration of the paving
and any other details which in his judgment may be important elements
in the making of proper repair. The engineer shall have authority
to formulate rules and regulations which shall govern the times and
circumstances during which the opening of newly constructed or reconstructed
highways shall be permitted or prohibited.
[Ord. No. 62-152; Ord. No. 87-507 § 2]
Before any permit shall be issued, the township engineer may
require the filing of a bond in such amount as, in the opinion of
the engineer, shall be sufficient to insure the faithful and timely
performance of the work to be undertaken pursuant to the permit issued.
Such bond shall also be in form and with surety acceptable to the
Township of Branchburg.
[Ord. No. 62-152]
Fees for permits hereunder to cover administrative and supervisory
costs shall be in accordance with schedules to be enacted by resolution
of the township committee. Whenever the charges fixed in the schedules
then in force are not, in the judgment of the engineer, sufficient
to cover the costs of administration and supervision of a particular
job, the engineer shall certify such conditions to the township committee
who shall fix such terms as will provide for proper fees.
[Ord. No. 62-152; New; Ord. No. 87-507 § 3]
All work shall be completed by the time stated in the application.
If the work is not completed on or before said date, the township
may complete the work, charging the cost to the permittee.
[New]
All streets, roads and miscellaneous structures such as storm
water drains, manholes, inlets, catch basins, outlets, curb and headers,
rubble walls, head walls and culverts, monuments, guard fence, pipe
railing, street signs, and sidewalks shall be constructed and installed
in accordance with design standards established in the subdivision
and site plan ordinance of 1979 as the same may be amended.
[1]
Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history: Ordinance Nos. 56-107,
99-803
[Ord. No. 2013-1226]
As used in this section:
Shall mean a driveway, sidewalk or other means of pedestrian
or vehicular access from private property to a township street.
Shall mean any pipe, culvert, or other facility that is designed
or used to carry water flowing in or on a Township street or an easement
dedicated to the township under, on or over a driveway.
Shall mean the owner of or other responsible party for a
driveway drainage facility.
Shall mean maintenance, repair, or reconstruction sufficient
to bring a driveway drainage facility into compliance with the township
engineer's current standards for maintenance, repair or reconstruction
of driveway drainage facilities.
[Ord. No. 2013-1226; Ord. No. 2015-1281 § 5]
No person shall cause, assist in, contribute to or permit without
the written approval of the township engineer:
a.
The construction or placement of any natural or man-made structure
or object of any kind, other than turf and materials necessary to
grow and maintain turf, in, on, over or under any street right-of-way
or easement owned by or dedicated to the township;
b.
Any impediment of any kind, natural or man-made, to the free flow
of water in, on, over or under any easement owned by or dedicated
to the township as any type of drainage easement, including, not by
way of limitation, those dedicated as "drainage easement", "storm
drainage easement" and "storm sewer easement";
c.
The construction or placement of any man-made structure or object
of any kind in, on, over or under any easement owned by or dedicated
to the township as a "conservation easement";
d.
The rearrangement or alteration of the natural state of any easement
owned by or dedicated to the township as a "conservation easement";
e.
The construction or placement of any natural or man-made structure
or object of any kind, other than turf and materials necessary to
grow and maintain turf, in, on over or under any easement owned by
or dedicated to the township as a "sewer easement".
[Ord. No. 2013-1226]
The repair of every driveway drainage facility shall be the
responsibility of the owner.
[Ord. No. 2013-1226]
Any person who violates the provisions of this section upon
conviction shall be penalized as follows:
a.
For a first offense, or any offense at least one year after any previous
offense, a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $500.
b.
For a second or subsequent offense within one year of the previous
offense, a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,500, and
an additional fine as a repeat offender of $100, or imprisonment for
not more than 90 days, or both;
c.
Each day during which any violation shall continue shall be deemed
a separate offense.
[Ord. #61-136; Ord. #84-454; New; Ord. #2005-985, SI; Ord.
#2011-1171; Ord. #2011-1186]
The owner or tenant of lands abutting upon the public streets
of the township shall remove from the paved part of any sidewalks
and to the width of one foot out of any gutters in front of or bordering
on their lands all snow and ice within 12 hours of daylight after
the same shall fall or be formed thereon or within such larger time
as the mayor may declare for a specific event.
Whenever the owner or tenant shall refuse or neglect to remove
snow or ice as required by this section, the snow or ice may be removed
under the direction of the Zoning Officer, and the cost of such removal
shall be charged against such lands and shall become a lien upon the
lands, to be collected and enforced by the same officers and in the
same manner as taxes.
Any owner or tenant violating any of the provisions of this
section shall, upon conviction, be liable for a fine of:
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant or occupant
of any premises abutting on any street, or any other persons shall
throw, plow, place or deposit snow or ice into or upon the sidewalks
or the paved portion of any street of the township, it being the intent
and purpose of this provision to prohibit all persons from throwing,
casting, placing or depositing snow and ice which accumulates on private
property upon the sidewalks or streets of the township.
[Ord. #78-339; Ord. #83-448]
There are within the township certain roads and streets which
have been improved, but not completed, and are not accepted by the
Township of Branchburg, and the public travel on such roads is often
sufficient to warrant the removal of snow, ice and other obstructions.
The removal of snow and ice therefrom would eliminate hazards to life,
health and fire prevention to citizens of Branchburg living on or
along such roads, and N.J.S.A. 40:67-23.1 authorizes such removal
of snow, ice and other obstructions from such roads or streets.
The township shall maintain and provide for the removal of snow,
ice and other obstructions from those unimproved roads or streets
which have been dedicated to the township by the filing and approval
of a subdivision map and which provide the only means of access to
citizens occupying dwellings on or along such roads or streets when
there is no other convenient means of access.
The removal of snow, ice and other obstructions from such dedicated
but unaccepted roadways shall in no event constitute acceptance of
the same nor shall removal relieve a developer or subdivider from
his obligation to complete the improvements to such roads or streets.
Payment for this service shall be made by the developer or subdivider
pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 18, the Land Subdivision and
Site Plan Review Ordinance of the Township of Branchburg.
The cost for this service shall become a lien upon the lands
of the developer or subdivider, and shall be added to and become and
form a part of the taxes then next to be assessed and levied upon
such lands, and shall be collected and enforced according to law.
[Ord. #93-663; Ord. #2009-1135]
[1]
Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions
of Ordinance Nos. 79- 343, 79-351, 82-430 and 93-663.
The township dumpster has been established to provide residents
of Branchburg with a method of disposing of certain wastes and to
supplement the services available throughout the township from various
private contractors.
The director of public works is hereby authorized and directed
to prepare regulations concerning the hours of operation; permitted
and prohibited uses; issuance, reissuance and revocation of permits;
fees; and all other aspects of the operation of the township dumpster.
Such proposed regulations may be approved, modified or disapproved
by the township committee. Regulations shall become effective only
when adopted by resolution of the township committee. The director
of public works may from time to time recommend to the township committee
changes in the regulations. The township committee may from time to
time, with or without recommendation of the director of public works,
revise, amend or repeal any such regulations by resolution.
No person shall deposit anything in or at the township dumpster
without having first obtained a permit from the township clerk's
office.
No person shall deposit anything in or at the township dumpster
except as permitted by regulations adopted pursuant to this section.
[Ord. #88-543; S1; Ord. #92-627; Ord. #92-628; Ord. #97-732;
Ord. #99-809; Ord. #2004-965; Ord. #2008-1096]
The street names set forth below shall be changed as follows:
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Present Name
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New Name
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Edgebrook Drive
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Bristol Road
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Pheasant Lane
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Falls Road
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Brookside Court
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Crystal Court
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Devon Laine Road
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Devon Lane
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Harvest Court
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Fieldpointe Drive
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North Post Road
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South Horizon Way
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Woodside Lane (from the intersection of Bernard Street running
in a north easterly direction to its end)
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Timbers Court
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That portion of Stony Brook Road, beginning at the intersection
with the northern right-of-way line of Sunset Street and running in
a northeasterly direction for a distance of approximately 350 feet,
terminating in a cul-de-sac.
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Lindsay Court
|
|
That portion of Orr Drive beginning at the intersection with
the southern right-of-way line of County Route 614 and running in
a southerly direction for a distance of approximately 1,175 feet to
the intersection with the northern right-of-way line of U.S. Route
22.
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Raritan Valley College Drive
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Chubb Way Beginning at a point being the intersection of the
southerly sideline of U.S. Route 202, if extended, with the centerline
of Chubb Way.
Southeasterly along the centerline of Chubb Way, a distance
of approximately 2,500 feet to a point being the intersection of the
centerline of Chubb Way with the westerly sideline of West County
Drive, also known as Somerset County Route 646, if extended
|
Imclone Drive
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West County Drive Beginning at a point being the intersection
of the southerly sideline of U.S. Route 202 with the centerline of
a portion of West County Drive.
Southeasterly along the centerline of West County Drive a distance
of approximately 2,900 feet to a point being the intersection of the
centerline of West County Drive, also known as Somerset County Route
646, with the northwesterly sideline of South Branch Road, also known
as Somerset County Route 567, if extended
|
Chubb Way
|
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Somerset County Route 567 Beginning at a point, said point being
the intersection of the centerline of Somerset County Route #567 with
the centerline of the South Branch Raritan River. Said point also
being on the boundary line between the Township of Branchburg, Somerset
County and the Township of Hillsborough, Somerset County, and from
said beginning point in a northwesterly direction along the centerline
of Somerset County Route #567 a distance of approximately 1,400 feet
to the intersection with the centerline of Somerset County Route #667,
being also known as Pleasant Run Road
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Picket Place
|
[Ord. #2001-854]
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning
of terms used in this section shall be as follows:
Shall mean the owner of the land on which a sidewalk is located
or which abuts the sidewalk.
Means maintenance, repair, or reconstruction sufficient to
bring a sidewalk into compliance with the township engineer's
current standards for maintenance, repair or reconstruction of existing
sidewalks.
Shall mean any sidewalk, or part thereof, whether constructed
of concrete or other material, which is open to the public.
The repair of every sidewalk shall be the responsibility of
the owner.
