No person, firm, partnership, association, company, corporation, organization,
individual or group of any kind shall do or perform, conduct, supervise, or
permit any blasting or the detonation of explosives or blasting material within
Upper Pottsgrove Township, or within any street, highway, or property within
Upper Pottsgrove Township, without first filing with the Township Manager
a copy of its current Pennsylvania blaster's license, blasting activity
permit for the particular blast, explosives purchase permit, magazine storage
license, and the name and telephone number of a contact person who would be
available 24 hours a day.
Every blaster, as a condition precedent to conducting any blasting within
Upper Pottsgrove Township shall provide a certificate of insurance to the
Township Manager that indicates that there is and will continue to be in full
force and effect a commercial general liability insurance policy that provides
coverage for bodily injury, including death, and property damage as a result
of blasting, collapse, and underground releases, in an amount of not less
than $1,000,000 for any one occurrence, and a minimum of $3,000,000 in the
aggregate for any one policy year. The aforementioned commercial general liability
insurance policy shall remain in effect during the entire period that the
blaster is conducting blasting operations in the Township.
[Amended 9-9-2002 by Ord. No. 341]
Blasting shall be permitted in the Township only between the hours of
8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, Monday through Friday, and shall
be prohibited at all other times. In addition, there shall be no blasting
on legal holidays.
Prior to any blasting, the blaster shall offer, in writing, to all property
owners located within 500 feet of the blasting site, to have a preblast survey
of the property owner's house and any other buildings, if any, performed by
an independent blasting consultant to be paid by the blaster. The blaster
shall provide a list of property owners to whom notice was sent and the manner
in which the notice was delivered.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, for every
such violation, upon conviction before a District Justice, be sentenced to
pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution, and, in default
of payment of fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days, provided
that each separate offense or violation of any provision of this chapter shall
constitute a separate violation and shall be subject to a separate penalty.