[Ord. 109, 11/7/1988]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
BUSINESS DAY
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
BUSINESS HOURS
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
CARTWAY
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
CORPORATION
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or any other legal entity.
SIDEWALK
Portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral line of a cartway and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
STREET OR HIGHWAY
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
[Ord. 109, 11/7/1988]
1. 
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land fronting or abutting on a paved sidewalk, 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 13 inches width from so much of said sidewalk as in front of or abuts on said building or lot of land.
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 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 sand or other abrasive 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.
[Ord. 109, 11/7/1988]
Every person in charge or control of any building or other structure, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or otherwise, shall remove and clear away, or cause to be removed and cleared away, any accumulation of snow and ice on said building or other structure which is liable to fall on any sidewalk, roadway or other public way. Such work shall be completed within a reasonable time, but not later than 12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
[Ord. 109, 11/7/1988]
1. 
In the event of a 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 Part, or cause this to be done, the Township Manager shall, as soon as practical after the failure, cause this work to be done.
2. 
The Township Manger shall ascertain and keep a record of the exact costs of all work he causes to be done in accordance with this Part on account of each act or omission of each person; and he shall indemnify those persons with particularity.
3. 
Each person, whose act or omission makes it necessary that the Township Manager shall cause work to be done in accordance with this Part shall be liable to the Township for the costs of the work plus a penalty of 10% of that cost. It shall be the duty of the Township Manager or other appropriate official to sue for these costs and penalties and it shall be the duty of the Solicitor to assist in the bringing of these suits.
[Ord. 109, 11/7/1988]
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, roadway, or loading and unloading areas of a public transportation system, except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Township on public cartways incident to the cleaning thereof or mounded on curbs incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business districts.
[Ord. 109, 11/7/1988; as amended by Ord. 218, 6/27/2005]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of the Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a District Justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.