As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
CONSTRUCTION
Includes paving, repaving, curbing, recurbing, repairing,
improving and altering.
ESTABLISHED GRADE
Both horizontal and vertical alignment prepared by the Township
Engineer or by a professional engineer licensed to practice in this
state and approved in writing by the Township Engineer.
SIDEWALK
That portion of the dedicated street right-of-way between
the existing or proposed curbline and the right-of-way line.
STANDARD
The specifications and drawings governing the same on file
in the office of the Township Engineer.
The construction and reconstruction, paving
and repaving, curbing and recurbing, repairing, altering or improving,
and the maintaining of the sidewalks of public streets and highways
of the Township shall be as prescribed by this article.
It shall hereafter be the duty of the owner
or occupant of any real property in the Township fronting or abutting
any public street or sidewalk to construct, repair or maintain the
curbs, public sidewalks and grass medians between the curbs and sidewalks
in front of such property whenever curbs or sidewalks are required
or, being already installed, shall be in such disrepair as to constitute
a hazard to the general public using the aforementioned areas unless
they are repaired or maintained. In the case of curbs, sidewalks and
grass medians between the curbs and sidewalks, such repairing, grading
and maintaining shall be done without formal notice from the Township
when the need arises.
The unpaved portion of a sidewalk shall be neatly
and sufficiently covered and maintained with gravel, broken stones,
grass or sodding by the owner of the abutting lands. Between the curb
and paved sidewalk, the unpaved portion of the sidewalk shall be graded
to afford a substantially continuous surface with the curb and the
sidewalk pavement.
Violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
I.