CHAPTER 85        STREETS AND SIDEWALKS

ARTICLE I
SIDEWALKS AND CURBS

ARTICLE IITree
OPENINGS IN STREETS

ARTICLE III
SNOW REMOVAL

ARTICLE IV
TRIMMING TREES AND SHRUBS
§    85-27.    Definitions.
§    85-28.    Obstructing streets and sidewalks unlawful.
§    85-29.    Trimming over streets and sidewalks.
§    85-30.    Notice to cut or remove.
§    85-31.    Trimming or removal by Township; costs.
§    85-32.    Violations and penalties.

ARTICLE V
CURB AND SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS


ARTICLE IV
TRIMMING TREES AND SHRUBS
[Adopted 10-14-1980 by Ord. No. 47]

§    85-27.     Definitions.

For the purpose of this article, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context in which the word is used clearly indicates otherwise.

PERSON - Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
TOWNSHIP - North Londonderry Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

§    85-28.     Obstructing streets and sidewalks unlawful.  [Amended 5-18-2009 by Ord. No. 151]

No person owning or occupying any property within the Township shall permit limbs of trees, shrubbery, bushes or any other type of plant life or growth to be less than fourteen (14) feet in height over any highway, street, alley or cartway, or to be less than eight (8) feet in height over any sidewalk or footway, or to otherwise obstruct, impede or interfere with traffic or travel or use of such highways, streets, alleys, cartways, sidewalks or footwalks.

§    85-29.    Trimming over streets and sidewalks required.

The owner of any vacant premises, or any owner or occupant of an occupied premises, shall trim, cut or remove all trees, shrubbery, bushes or any other type of plant life or growth growing or remaining upon such premises in violation of the provisions of this article.

§    85-30.    Notice to cut or remove.

The Township Supervisors, the Township Manager or Administrator or any officer or employee of the Township designated thereby for the purpose are hereby authorized to give notice, by personal service or by mail, to the owner or occupant, as the case may be, of any premises whereon there is a violation of the provisions of this article, directing and requiring such owner or occupant to trim, cut or remove such trees, shrubbery, bushes or any other type of plant life or growth so as to conform to the requirements of this article within fifteen (15) days after issuance of such notice.

§    85-31.    Trimming or removal by Township; costs.

In case any person neglects, fails or refuses to comply with such notice within fifteen (15) days, the Township authorities may trim, cut or remove such trees, shrubbery, bushes or any other type of plant life or growth or may enter into a contract to cause the same to be done, and the costs thereof, together with a penalty of five percent (5%) of such costs, may be collected by the Township.

§    85-32.    Violations and penalties.  [Amended 9-13-1988 by Ord. No. 74; 6-11-1996 by Ord. No. 108; 4-8-1997 by Ord. No. 112]

This article shall be enforced by action brought before a District Justice in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure. Any person who violates or permits the violation of this article shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding, be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days.  Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues, or is permitted to continue, shall constitute a separate offense and notice to the offender shall not be necessary in order to constitute an offense.  Each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.