[Adopted 11-14-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-003]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The portion of a street right-of-way normally paved or stoned
and designed or intended for vehicular use.
Any corporation, partnership, association, receiver, legal
representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, labor organization,
municipality, or individual, as well as any other entity recognized
as a "person" at law.
Land usually linear in configuration, set aside for use as
streets, roads, pedestrian ways or other means of travel and/or for
the location of public utilities.
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.
Includes grass, grass clippings, leaves, branches, brush,
bushes, shrubs, and clippings from bushes and shrubs that come from
residential, commercial/retail, institutional, or industrial sources
as part of maintaining yards or other private or public lands.
Except as otherwise approved by the Township, no person shall
stockpile, deposit, or cause to be stockpiled or deposited, yard waste
within the right-of-way of public streets, such that the deposit of
yard waste is located upon the cartway, shoulder, sidewalk, or any
other portion of the public right-of-way that creates a hazard to
motorists, bicyclists, or pedestrians; or which obstructs roadside
drainage facilities (including, but not limited to, drainage swales,
storm sewer inlets, culverts, and driveway pipes) or public utilities.
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are hereby repealed.
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 be effective five days after enactment.
