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The Department of Public
Works requests that homeowners remove their vehicles from the roadway when
it snows in order to facilitate snow-plowing operations. The
following is Fair Lawn D.P.W.'s snow
plowing and street
salting procedures:
Once
it starts to snow, the Road Department will dispatch salt trucks to begin
salting the County Roads and the designated Emergency Snow
Routes. After these roads are made safe and passable, the secondary
roads will be salted, if it is deemed necessary. This decision will be
made based upon continuing weather conditions. Roads will be plowed in the
following order:
1:
County, designated, and posted Emergency Snow Routes
2:
Emergency Services Buildings (Fire Houses, Ambulance Corps, Rescue Squad,
etc.)
3:
All secondary roads
4:
Parking Lots
Each snowplow vehicle has been
assigned a section to plow and will remain in that section until all
roadways have been sufficiently cleaned. This may require the snowplow
vehicle to make multiple passes on each street*.
Borough forces will be plowing each street from curb to curb during
each snowfall. On occasion, due to the lack of areas between the sidewalk
and curb, sidewalks and driveway aprons may become covered with snow that
falls off the snowplow blade. Borough forces will not remove snow from any
sidewalk or driveway apron in these instances. Please do not call the
Borough Hall in this event. We regret this unfortunate inconvenience to
any/all homeowners.
ORDINANCE
NO. 1652-96
states the following:
No person, firm or corporation, owner, tenant or occupant of any premises
on any street shall throw, place or deposit any snow or ice into or upon
any street in the Borough of Fair Lawn.
Any violation of this Ordinance may result,
upon conviction, in one (1) or more of the following penalties:
1:
A fine not to exceed $1,000
2:
Imprisonment not to exceed 90 day’s, or
3:
Community Service not to exceed 90 days
(All penalties are at the
discretion of the Municipal Judge)
*This
provision may change due to weather conditions and breakdowns of snow plow
and vehicular equipment.
Additionally, homeowners / lessees are responsible to maintain a clear
area around any fire hydrants that are within 5 feet of their
property. This includes snow.
§ 104-7.
Technical amendments, deletions and additions made in the Fire Prevention
Code
C. Access to
fire hydrants. To ensure access to fire hydrants in the Borough of Fair
Lawn for the safety and welfare of the public, a clear area of five feet
must be maintained in all directions from the hydrant as well as meeting
the roadside parking requirements.
(1) The owner
or lessee of any property within five feet of a fire hydrant shall be
responsible to see that a five-foot clear space is provided in all
directions from the fire hydrant. The requirements of this section shall
be completed by the responsible party not later than 12 hours after any
natural obstruction such as snow shall prevent access to the fire hydrant
and within one hour of any other type of obstruction.
(2) Upon the
failure of any person in maintaining the five feet clear space from all
fire hydrants in accordance with Subsection C(1) hereof, the Fire Chief of
the Borough of Fair Lawn may cause such space to be cleared in accordance
with the provisions thereof, in which event all costs incurred by the
municipality in connection therewith shall become a lien upon said lands
and be added to and form a part of the taxes next to be assessed and
levied thereon and shall be collected as other real property taxes.
Remember, the Borough
Ordinance requires that the hydrant be clear in all directions.... |