Whenever there is snow covering on the streets or highways in
the Borough, in the discretion of the Borough Administrator or his/her
designee, the following prohibitions shall take effect:
A. Any vehicle parked in violation of this Article or abandoned on a
public street shall be deemed to be a nuisance and a menace to public
safety and any public safety officer may provide for the removal of
such vehicle. The owner shall pay the reasonable costs of removal
and storage of such vehicle before redeeming possession thereof.
B. This parking prohibition shall remain in effect until after the snow
has ceased and the streets have been plowed for the full width as
well as until parking will not interfere with the normal flow of traffic.
C. During a snow emergency, if off-street parking is available, any
vehicle shall not be parked on any street.
D. Any owner or owners, occupant or occupants, tenant or tenants, building
superintendent, rental agent or person in charge of premises abutting
or bordering upon any public street in the Borough shall remove all
snow and ice from the abutting sidewalks of such streets, or in the
case of ice which may be so frozen as to make removal impracticable,
shall cause the same to be thoroughly covered with appropriate ice
melt material, within 24 hours of daylight after the same shall fall
or be formed thereon.
E. The penalty provisions of Chapter
1 (§
1-14) shall apply to a violation of this Article. In addition, the Police Department shall have the option of towing any vehicle in violation of this Article at the owner's expense.
F. During a snow emergency, vehicles may be parked in the parking areas of Holmes A. Adams Recreation Complex, West Sylvania Avenue, notwithstanding the provisions of Section
95-4.
In addition to the provision for penalties herein made for violations of this section, and in case such snow or ice shall not be removed from such sidewalks by the owner or owners, tenant or tenants, occupant or occupants, building superintendent, rental agent or person in charge of any premises, as provided in Section
113-15 D, the same shall be removed forth with and under the direction of the Director of Public Works, and the cost of such removal as nearly as can be ascertained shall be certified by the Director of Public Works to the Governing Body. The Governing Body shall examine such certification and, if found to be correct, shall cause such cost to be charged against such real estate so abutting or bordering upon such sidewalk or street, and the amount so charged shall forth with become a lien and a tax upon such real estate or land and be added to, recorded and collected in the same manner as the taxes next to be levied and assessed upon such premises and shall bear interest and be enforced and collected by the same officers and in the same manner as other taxes.
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant or occupant
of any premises abutting on any street shall shovel, throw, cast,
place or deposit any snow or ice into or upon any public street in
the Borough, it being the intent and purpose of this provision to
prohibit all such persons from shoveling, throwing, casting, placing
or depositing snow and ice which accumulated on the private property
abutting the street or sidewalk on the sidewalks or streets of the
Borough.