Borough of Berlin, NJ
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2023-06-08
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 287 Streets, Sidewalks and Curbs
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Article III Weed and High Grass Removal
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Celebration Advisory Committee
- Ch 7 Claims Procedure
- Ch 8 Community Center, Use of
- Ch 9 Contracts, Public
- Ch 11 Court, Municipal
- Ch 13 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 16 Business Advisory Committee
- Ch 18 Emergency and Ambulance Services
- Ch 20 Fire Department
- Ch 25 Health, Board of
- Ch 28 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 35 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 42 Nepotism
- Ch 46 Officers and Employees
- Ch 47 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 49 Personnel Policies
- Ch 52 Police Department
- Ch 55 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 59 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 61 Retirement
- Ch 62 Salaries
- Ch 64 (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Water Department
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 76 Airports
- Ch 79 Alarms
- Ch 80 Key Lock Box Emergency Access System
- Ch 82 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 86 (Reserved)
- Ch 89 Animals
- Ch 92 Bamboo and Other Invasive Plant Species
- Ch 98 Boardinghouses, Rooming Houses and Hotels
- Ch 101 Brush, Weeds and Obnoxious Debris
- Ch 105 Buildings and Structures, Dangerous and Unfit
- Ch 111 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 119 Checks, Returned
- Ch 129 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 132 Contractors and Sign Erectors
- Ch 136 Criminal Registration
- Ch 140 Curfew
- Ch 148 Drug- and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 150 Disturbing the Peace
- Ch 162 Fire Prevention
- Ch 167 Flood Management Regulations
- Ch 173 Games of Chance
- Ch 176 Garage Sales
- Ch 179 Gas- and Oil-Burning Equipment
- Ch 182 Gasoline Service Stations
- Ch 188 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 190 Lead-Based Paint
- Ch 193 Housing, Affordable
- Ch 197 Insurance
- Ch 207 Littering
- Ch 211 Loitering
- Ch 218 Mercantile Licenses
- Ch 226 Nuisances
- Ch 232 Parking
- Ch 234 Parking Areas, Municipal
- Ch 236 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 237 Nonprofit Organizations
- Ch 238 Precious Metals, Gems and Secondhand Goods, Dealers in
- Ch 241 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 244 Property, Defaulted Mortgage
- Ch 246 Property Maintenance
- Ch 253 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 256 Rental Properties
- Ch 261 Sewers
- Ch 263 Sex Offender Residency Prohibition
- Ch 266 Shows, Circuses, Carnivals and Amusements
- Ch 268 Signs
- Ch 270 Smoking
- Ch 274 Soil Removal
- Ch 278 Solid Waste
- Ch 282 Sound Trucks
- Ch 284 Storm Sewers
- Ch 285 Stormwater Management
- Ch 287 Streets, Sidewalks and Curbs
- Ch 287 Art III Weed and High Grass Removal
- § 287-20 Duty of owners; enforcement.
- § 287-21 Cost to become lien upon land.
- § 287-22 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 292 Swimming Pools
- Ch 296 Tattooing, Body Piercing and Body Branding
- Ch 299 Taxation
- Ch 301 Taxicabs
- Ch 306 Towing
- Ch 309 Trailers and Camp Cars
- Ch 315 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 320 Vehicles, Unlicensed
- Ch 327 Water
- Ch 332 Youth Programs
- Ch 335 Zoning and Land Use
- Ch 336 Stormwater Control
- Part III, Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 341 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 345 Cannabis and Cannabis Products
- Ch 355 Sanitation
- Ch 358 Sewer Connections
- Appendix
- Ch A365 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 6-17-1968 by Ord. No. 68-3 as
Ch. 68, Art. IV, of the 1968 Code]
[Amended 10-1-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-14]
A.
The owner
or owners, tenant or tenants of lands abutting or bordering upon the
sidewalks of the public streets, avenues and highways in the Borough
of Berlin shall remove or cause to be removed from the sidewalks in
front of or bordering on their said lands all weeds and high grass
within 12 hours after notice given by the Street Commissioner or officer
having charge of the streets and highways of said Borough to remove
or cause to be removed such weeds and high grass, it shall be the
duty of the Street Commissioner or officer having charge of the streets
and highways of said Borough to remove or cause to be removed such
weeds and high grass from the sidewalks in front of or bordering on
said land.
B.
The owner
or owners, tenant or tenants of lands within the Borough of Berlin,
or any other individual or entity, are prohibited from planting trees
of any kind in the area between sidewalks and curbs in the Borough
of Berlin.
The cost paid and incurred by such officer for
removing such weeds and high grass from the sidewalks shall be by
him certified to the Borough Council, which shall examine such certificate
and shall cause the cost as shown thereon to be charged against the
lands abutting or bordering such sidewalk, and 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 then next to be assessed and
levied upon such lands, and shall be collected and enforced according
to law.
Such owner or owners, tenant or tenants, for
every neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions of this article,
shall also forfeit and pay a fine of not more than $50.
