[Adopted 10-1-1975 as Ch. 111, Art. I, of the 1975 Code]
[Amended 9-20-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-11; 10-23-2014 by Ord. No.
2014-19]
A.Â
The owner or tenant of lands abutting or bordering upon the sidewalks
and gutters of public streets, avenues and highways in the Township
are required to remove all ice and snow from the sidewalks and gutters
within 12 hours of daylight after the same shall be formed or fall
thereon.
B.Â
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant or occupant of
any premises abutting any public street within the Township shall
throw, place or deposit any snow, ice or sleet into or upon any of
Township streets. It is the intent and purpose of this provision to
prohibit all persons from throwing, casting, placing, plowing or depositing
snow, ice and sleet which has accumulated within the private property
or any area outside of the traveled way or shoulder onto a Township
street.
C.Â
No person, firm or corporation, the owner, tenant or occupant of
any premises abutting any Township street, shall plow any snow, ice
and sleet into or upon the Township streets. All snow, ice and sleet
shall be deposited off the traveled way and shoulder. It is hereby
further required, to facilitate the traffic flow and to maintain the
proper width on the Township streets, that said person or persons
or individuals and/or their agents shall feather the snow along said
Township streets so that same does not encroach upon the traveled
way and/or shoulder, if one exists.
D.Â
In the event that snow and ice on a sidewalk have become so hard that they cannot be removed without the likelihood of damage to the sidewalk, the person or entity charged with their 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 thereon reasonably safe and shall then, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause said sidewalk to be thoroughly cleaned.
[Amended 9-20-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-11]
In case the owner or owners, tenant or tenants
of land abutting or bordering upon the sidewalks and gutters of public
streets, avenues and highways in said Township of Maple Shade shall
refuse or neglect to remove said ice and snow, or apply sand or other
abrasive if removal is likely to damage the sidewalk, within the time
specified in this article, the governing body of said township may
cause the same to be removed, or may cause sand or other abrasive
to be applied, under the direction of the officers or persons having
charge of streets, avenues and highways in said township, and charge
the cost thereof upon the books of said township against the lands
abutting or bordering upon the said sidewalks and gutters, with interest
thereon, which said sums shall be a lien on said premises and shall
be added to and form a part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied
upon said lands, and shall be certified to the person or persons whose
duty it is to collect the taxes for such township.
