[Adopted as Ch. 21, Part 3, of the 1983 Code]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
Any day not a Sunday or a national holiday.
Hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any business day.
Portion of a street or highway improved, designed, or ordinarily
used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Natural person, partnership, corporation, association or any other
legal entity.
Portion of a street between the curblines, or the lateral lines of
a cartway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
The entire width between the boundary lines of a way publicly maintained
when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular
travel.
Every person in charge or control of any building or lot of land 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 or cleared
away, snow and/or ice from a path of at least 30 inches in width from so much
of said sidewalk as is in front of or abuts on said building or lot of land.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B hereof, snow and ice shall be removed from sidewalks within 12 hours after the cessation of any fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
B.
In the event that snow and/or ice on a sidewalk has become so hard that it cannot be removed without likelihood of damage to the sidewalk, the person charged with its removal shall, within the time mentioned in Subsection A hereof, cause enough sand or other abrasive to be put on the sidewalk to make travel reasonably safe; and shall, as soon thereafter as weather permits, cause to be cleared a path in said sidewalk of at least 30 inches in width.
Every person in charge or control of any building or other structure,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall remove and
clear away, or cause to be removed and cleared away, any accumulation of snow
and ice on said building or other structure which is liable to fall on any
sidewalk, roadway or other public way. Such work shall be completed within
a reasonable time, but not later than 12 hours after the cessation of any
fall of snow, sleet or freezing rain.
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or ice on
or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway or loading
and unloading areas of a public transportation system, except that snow and
ice may be mounded by the township on public cartways incident to the cleaning
thereof or mounded on curbs incident to the clearing of sidewalks in business
districts.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall,
upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced
by the township before a District Justice, pay a fine of not more than $600,
plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred
by the township in the enforcement of this chapter. No judgment shall be imposed
until the date of the determination of the violation by the District Justice.
If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the township
may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable Rules of Civil Procedure.
Each day a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. Further,
the appropriate officers or agents of the township are hereby authorized to
seek equitable relief, including injunction, to enforce compliance herewith.
