[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Exeter 3-13-2000 by Ord. No. 498. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 324.
Except as herein otherwise defined, the terms
used shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Pennsylvania
Vehicle Code.
Includes any person, partnership, copartnership, corporation,
joint stock company, syndicate, tenant, property owner, real and personal,
occupant, lessee or agent in control of any building.
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
That portion of a street or highway between the curblines
and the adjacent property lines or where there is no curbing between
the lateral lines of the street or highway and the adjacent property
lines.
The entire width between curbs or boundary lines of every
way, publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use
of the public for use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
[Amended 1-27-2003 by Ord. No. 545]
A.
Every person in charge or control of any building
or lot of land within the Township of Exeter 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 and
cleared away, snow and ice from a path of at least 36 inches in width
and from and area within 36 inches of every fire hydrant on every
sidewalk which is in front of or abuts on such building or lot of
land, within 36 hours after the same shall have ceased to fall or
to be formed thereon.
B.
However, in the event snow and ice on a sidewalk has become so hard that it cannot be removed without the likelihood of damage to the sidewalk, the person charged with its removal shall, within the time mentioned in Subsection A hereof, cause enough cinder 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 a path in such sidewalk of a least 36 inches in width to be thoroughly cleaned.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw,
shovel, plow, cast or otherwise move, place, pile, deposit or dump
snow or ice removed from the sidewalks, driveways or other areas into
the streets of public highways, or for any person, when the cartway
of the street or highway shall be cleared or partially cleared, or
throw or place any snow or any other accumulation in the clear cartway
or passageway area.
A.
In the event of the failure of any person to clear
away or treat with abrasives and consequently clear away any snow
and ice from any sidewalk, as herein provided, or cause this to done,
Exeter Township may at its sole discretion because exceptional safety
situations, as soon as practicable after such failure, cause such
work to be done.
B.
Exeter Township shall ascertain and keep a record
of the exact cost of all work caused to be done in accordance with
this section on account of each act or omission of each person, and
shall identify these persons with particularity.
C.
Each person whose act or omission makes it necessary
that Exeter Township cause work to be done in accordance with this
section shall be liable to the Township for the cost of such work
plus any additional amount or penalty allowed by law which may in
addition to any fine or penalty.
[Amended 8-13-2007 by Ord. No. 640]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter, upon conviction thereof in an action
brought before a Magisterial District Judge 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 chapter continues or each section of this chapter
which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate
offense.
