[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Limerick 1-16-2001 by Ord. No.
221.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The tenant or tenants with respect to one-, two- or multifamily
dwellings, the manager or person having care, custody or control of
the building or lot with respect to three-family or larger dwellings,
commercial business, industrial premises, vacant lots or unoccupied
buildings.
The fee owner and/or contract purchaser of a building or
lot as listed on the property records, properly recorded in Montgomery
County.
Any concrete, bituminous or other hard surface sidewalk,
path or other walkway intended for public use.
Limerick Township or its designee.
A.
The owner or occupant of any building or lot abutting a public sidewalk
is responsible for and shall remove any accumulation of snow, slush,
ice and/or freezing rain from said public sidewalk within 24 hours
after the snow, ice or freezing rain has ceased to fall, gather or
accumulate.
B.
The clearing of sidewalks may require continuous acts due to drifting,
melting and other situations that require snow and ice to be removed
more than once after a single storm.
C.
All sidewalks shall be cleared to a minimum width of three feet.
In the event the snow and/or ice cannot be removed without damaging
the sidewalk, an application of sand, salt, cinders or other grit
and deicing agents will be an acceptable substitute for clearing.
D.
Following the clearing of any public sidewalk and during freezing
conditions, applications of salt, sand, cinders or other deicing agents
shall be applied as necessary to ensure a safe, nonslip surface for
pedestrian traffic.
E.
Clearing of sidewalks shall also include any portion(s) of a driveway
crossing a sidewalk area.
F.
Any/all material removed from a sidewalk and driveway area may not
be disposed of in the street, curb gutter or storm inlet areas.
Following the effective date of this ordinance, it shall be
unlawful to park, abandon or allow to be parked or abandoned any motor
vehicle or other vehicle on or in part of a travel lane of any highway,
street, road or right-of-way which is part of the PennDOT, Montgomery
County and/or Township road system, after the start of a snowfall
and until the snow has stopped falling and the snow has been completely
plowed for the full width of the cartway.
Any member of the Limerick Township Police Department is hereby
authorized to have removed any vehicle abandoned or parked upon or
in part of any travel lane of a public highway, street, road or right-of-way
in violation of the terms and provisions of this ordinance, and to
have said vehicle towed to the nearest safe facility. The registered
owner of any such vehicle shall be notified of the fact of the removal
and of the place to which said vehicle has been towed, where he or
she may obtain the same upon payment of any and all towing and storage
charges. Neither the Township nor any of its officers or employees
shall be held responsible for any damage to any vehicle occurring
as a result of towing and/or storage of a vehicle parked in violation
of this ordinance. The towing company shall be an approved vendor
pursuant to the Limerick Township Police Department Standard Operating
Procedures Manual.
It shall be unlawful for owners, occupants or tenants of property
to dump, throw, shovel, pile or push any snow or ice removed from
driveways, walkways or other private property into any public highway,
street, road or public right-of-way.
