City of Clifton, NJ
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 433 Trees and Shrubbery
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Article II Plant Life Near Roadways
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 6 Advisory Beautification Committee
- Ch 7 Affordable Housing
- Ch 9 Bonds and Notes
- Ch 11 Advisory Committee on Civil Rights
- Ch 12 Open Space Trust Fund Advisory Committee
- Ch 13 Claims for Damages
- Ch 15 Claims, Payment of
- Ch 17 Clifton Arts Center Gallery and Sculpture Park Committee
- Ch 19 Constables
- Ch 23 Cooperative and Intermunicipal Agreements
- Ch 27 Court, Municipal
- Ch 31 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 33 Elections, Municipal
- Ch 35 (Reserved)
- Ch 37 Fire Department
- Ch 43 Advisory Committee for Individuals With Disabilities
- Ch 44 Environmental Commission
- Ch 45 Hazardous Materials Control Board
- Ch 47 Health Department
- Ch 50 Historian
- Ch 51 Historical Commission
- Ch 57 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 61 Leases
- Ch 65 Library
- Ch 73 Personnel Policies
- Ch 77 Police Department
- Ch 81 Protected Tenancy Act, Administration of
- Ch 85 Recreation, Advisory Board of
- Ch 87 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 91 Redevelopment Agency
- Ch 95 Residency Requirements
- Ch 99 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 103 Seal
- Ch 107 Solid Waste Management Authority
- Ch 113 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 121 Advertising
- Ch 125 Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment
- Ch 127 Air Pollution
- Ch 129 Airports and Aircraft
- Ch 133 Alarm Devices
- Ch 137 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 141 Amusements
- Ch 145 Apartment Rental Businesses
- Ch 149 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 153 (Reserved)
- Ch 155 Barges and Boats
- Ch 159 Bazaars, Carnivals, Circuses and Festivals
- Ch 163 Billiard Rooms, Bowling Alleys and Dance Halls
- Ch 167 Boarding Homes for Children
- Ch 171 Bootblacks
- Ch 175 Brush, Weeds, Uncut Grass and Debris
- Ch 179 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 181 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 185 Political Signs
- Ch 189 Canvassing and Soliciting
- Ch 193 Cemeteries
- Ch 195 Certificates of Continued Occupancy
- Ch 196 Compost, Mulch and Topsoil
- Ch 197 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 199 Contractors
- Ch 201 Developer Fees and Escrow Deposits, Zoning
- Ch 203 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 205 Donation Bins, Clothing/Material
- Ch 207 Dry-Cleaning Establishments, Coin-Operated
- Ch 209 Dumpsters and Refuse Containers
- Ch 210 Dwelling Certificate
- Ch 211 Body Piercing, Scarring, Branding
- Ch 213 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 215 Entertainment
- Ch 219 Fallout Shelters
- Ch 223 Fees
- Ch 227 Fingerprinting
- Ch 231 Fire Limits
- Ch 233 Fire Prevention
- Ch 235 Fire Zones
- Ch 239 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 241 Florists
- Ch 245 Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 247 Foodstuffs
- Ch 251 Fund-Raising, Political
- Ch 255 Gambling Devices
- Ch 257 Games of Chance
- Ch 259 Garage Sales and House Sales
- Ch 261 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 263 Graffiti
- Ch 265 Hawking and Peddling
- Ch 269 Heating of Buildings
- Ch 271 Hours of Construction
- Ch 273 Housing Standards
- Ch 277 Hunting
- Ch 281 Ice Cream Peddling
- Ch 283 Illegal Occupancies and Conversions
- Ch 285 Insurance
- Ch 289 Junkyards and Junk Shops
- Ch 295 Landfills
- Ch 296 Landscapers
- Ch 299 Library Property
- Ch 303 Licensed Businesses
- Ch 305 Lighting
- Ch 307 Littering
- Ch 309 Massage Establishments
- Ch 311 Meats
- Ch 315 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 317 Motion-Picture Filming
- Ch 319 Motorbuses
- Ch 323 Newsracks
- Ch 327 Noise
- Ch 331 (Reserved)
- Ch 332 Nuisances
- Ch 335 Obscene Materials
- Ch 337 Oil Heat Retrofit Program
- Ch 339 Parades
- Ch 341 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 343 Parking for Handicapped Persons
- Ch 345 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 347 Parking of Truck Tractors, Trailers and Buses
- Ch 349 Permit Parking on Residential Streets and Municipal Lots
- Ch 351 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 355 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 358 Portable Storage Units
- Ch 361 Quarries
- Ch 363 Rent Control
- Ch 367 Retail Food Establishments
- Ch 369 Right-Of-Way Use Agreements
- Ch 371 Sales, Special
- Ch 374 Sewer Utility
- Ch 375 Sewers
- Ch 376 Sexual Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 377 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 378 Shopping Carts
- Ch 379 Skating Rinks
- Ch 381 Smoking on Municipal Property
- Ch 383 Snow and Ice, Removal of
- Ch 387 Soil Removal
- Ch 391 Solicitations, Public
- Ch 393 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 393A Storm Drain Inlet Retrofitting, Private
- Ch 394 Stormwater Control
- Ch 395 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 399 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 403 Swimming and Swimming Pools
- Ch 407 Tattooing
- Ch 411 Taxation
- Ch 413 Taxis and Limousines
- Ch 415 Telephones, Public
- Ch 417 Tenancies, Protected
- Ch 421 Theaters
- Ch 425 Towers
- Ch 429 Transient Merchants and Pawnbrokers
- Ch 433 Trees and Shrubbery
- Ch 433 Art II Plant Life Near Roadways
- § 433-6 Definitions.
- § 433-7 Legislative declaration.
- § 433-8 Trimming required after notice.
- § 433-9 Engineer to have authority to compel trimming.
- § 433-10 Notice to owners and tenants.
- § 433-11 Failure to comply.
- § 433-12 Construal of provisions.
- § 433-13 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 439 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 441 Vehicles, Diesel-Powered
- Ch 443 Vehicles, Renting and Leasing of
- Ch 445 Vehicles, Sale of New or Used
- Ch 449 Vending Machines
- Ch 451 Venereal Disease Preventatives
- Ch 455 Water
- Ch 461 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A470 Cable Television
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-20-1960 by Ord. No.
3319 as Article 1 of Chapter 28 of the Revised Ordinances
of the City of Clifton, New Jersey, 1960]
[Amended 11-21-1967 by Ord. No.
3803]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any plant, hedge, brush or other plant life on lands
within the City.
The meaning respectively ascribed to it in Chapter 12 of Title 48 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey.
[Added 6-15-1982 by Ord. No. 4718-82]
The meanings respectively ascribed to them in Subtitle 1
of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes of New Jersey.
[Amended 11-21-1967 by Ord. No.
3803; 6-15-1982 by Ord. No. 4718-82]
The Council hereby finds and declares that plant
life growing within 10 feet of any street or highway or within 50
feet of the intersection of two or more streets, highways or a railroad
grade crossing may cause traffic and safety hazards and may be detrimental
to the public welfare unless the same are trimmed as provided in this
article.
[Amended 11-21-1967 by Ord. No.
3803; 6-15-1982 by Ord. No. 4718-82]
Any plant life growing within 10 feet of any
street or highway or growing within 50 feet of the intersection of
any two or more streets or highways or of a railroad grade crossing
on lands within the City shall be trimmed or cut to a height of not
more than two feet within 10 days after notice from the City Engineer,
as hereafter provided in this article.
The City Engineer shall have the power and authority to compel the trimming and cutting of any plant life growing within the limits stated in § 433-8 to a height of not more than 2 1/2 feet whenever, in his judgment, he shall deem it necessary for the elimination of a traffic or safety hazard or he determines such growth of more than 2 1/2 feet in height is detrimental to the public safety.
The City Engineer shall give or cause to be given 10 days' written notice to the owners of any lands upon which said plant life is growing and to the tenants in possession, if any, of such lands to cut, before the expiration of such ten-day period, the plant life growing within the limits stated in § 433-8 to a height of not more than 2 1/2 feet. Such notice may be given by registered or certified mail, addressed to the last known address of said owners and tenants.
If, by the end of the ten-day period referred to in § 433-10, the owner or tenant shall have neglected or refused to cut the plant life in accordance with the notice, it shall be lawful, at the expiration of such period, for City employees, under the direction of the City Engineer, to cut the same. The City Engineer shall certify the cost thereof to the Council. Upon receipt of the certificate, the Council shall examine the same and, if found correct, shall cause the cost as shown thereon to be charged against said lands. If such cost is found to be excessive, the Council shall cause the reasonable cost thereof to be charged against said lands. The amount so charged shall forthwith become a lien upon such lands and shall be added to and become and form part of the taxes next to be assessed and levied upon such lands. Such amount shall bear interest at the same rate as other taxes and shall be collected and enforced by the same officer and in the same manner as taxes.
Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as repealing or in any wise affecting the provisions of Chapter 175, Brush, Weeds and Debris.
[Amended 5-9-1969 by Ord. No. 3912; 3-17-1970 by Ord. No. 3969]
Every owner or tenant who shall refuse or neglect
to cut or trim any plant life in the manner and within the time provided
in the notice given by the City Engineer or who violates any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine
not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90
days, or both.
