[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Pine 12-4-1995 by Ord. No. 241. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Township of Pine Snow Emergency
Ordinance."
The purposes of this chapter are:
A.
To prohibit the parking of vehicles on the cartways of
public roads, streets and highways within the Township of Pine and to prevent
their interference with snow removal and deicing operations upon such public
roads, streets and highways during a snow emergency.
B.
To require sidewalks within the Township of Pine to be
expeditiously cleared of snow and ice so as to facilitate safe pedestrian
travel.
C.
To prohibit the placing, casting, throwing or leaving
of any object, including snow and/or ice, onto the cartway of any road, street
or highway within the Township of Pine, so as to facilitate safe travel thereon.
A.
Words in the singular shall include the plural, and those
in the plural shall include the singular.
B.
CARTWAY
PERSON
SIDEWALK
SNOW EMERGENCY
VEHICLE
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words
shall, for the purposes of this chapter, have the meanings herein indicated:
The paved traveled portion of a road, street or highway.
Any natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation,
but excluding the Township of Pine.
Any concrete or asphalt pedestrian walkway, including all structures
or appurtenances necessary, desirable or incidental to the installation and
safe use of a sidewalk.
The period of time from commencement of any snow fall or other weather
condition which causes snow removal or deicing procedures to be performed
by state, county or Township forces on any public roads, streets or highways
within the Township of Pine until four hours after the snow stops falling
or until the conclusion of such snow removal or deicing procedures, whichever
shall last occur.
Every device which is or may be moved or drawn upon a road, street
or highway.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park or to permit
to be parked any vehicle which they own or for which they are responsible
upon the cartway of any public road, street or highway within the Township
of Pine during a snow emergency.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any property owner and/or legal
resident (excluding the Township of Pine) to allow snow or ice to remain on
sidewalks fronting on or upon their property in excess of the time period
specified in this paragraph, and it shall be the responsibility of such property
owner and/or legal resident to clean or clear such sidewalks of snow and ice
within 48 hours of the end of a snow emergency.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, cast, throw
or leave any object, including snow and/or ice, onto the cartway of any public
road, street or highway within the Township of Pine.
A.
Any police officer of the Pine-Marshall-Bradfordwoods
Joint Police Force who observes a violation of this chapter shall file a citation
with the office of the District Magistrate against the person responsible
for such violation. If so requested by the Township's Director of Public Works
or his designee, any such police officer shall have any vehicle parked in
violation of this chapter towed, at the owner's expense, from the cartway
to the towed vehicles compound or to an approved storage garage.
B.
Removal and impounding of vehicles under this chapter
shall be done only by approved storage garages that shall be designated from
time to time by the Township of Pine. Every such garage shall submit satisfactory
evidence to the Township that it is bonded or has acquired liability insurance
in an amount satisfactory to the Township as sufficient to indemnify owners
of impounded and/or towed vehicles against loss or damage to those vehicles
while in the custody of the garagekeeper or his agent for the purpose of towing
or storage. The approved storage garage shall submit to the Township its schedule
of charges for towing and storage of vehicles under this chapter and those
charges shall be adhered to by the approved storage garage. No different schedule
of charges shall be adopted without notice and approval of the Township, and
no different charges shall be demanded of or collected from any person whose
vehicle is removed or impounded under this chapter by any approved storage
garage. The Township may delete from its list of approved storage garages
any such garage that makes any unapproved charge in connection with any vehicle
removed or impounded under this chapter.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction,
be guilty of a summary offense and be punishable by a fine of not less than
$50 nor more than $1,000 or, in default of payment of such fine, by imprisonment
for a period of not more than 30 days, or both. Each day of violation shall
be considered a separate and distinct offense.