Copies of this ordinance may also be obtained through the Dingman Township Office.

An Ordinance of the Township of Dingman, Pike County, Pennsylvania, prohibiting the dumping, shoveling, pushing, or placement of any snow, ice, slush, or any combination thereof, into the main cartway of streets or avenues of the Township and prescribing penalties for violation.

Be it enacted and ordained by the Board of Supervisors of Dingman Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania as follows:

This Ordinance may be known and may be cited as the “Dingman Township Snow Removal Ordinance.”

This Ordinance is adopted for the purposes of preventing the creation of any obstacles to vehicular traffic and otherwise providing for the safety of persons traveling in vehicles during and following periods of snowfall in the Township.

This Ordinance shall apply to all public highways within the Township of Dingman, regardless of authority for maintenance.

Any owner, occupant, tenant or other person who removes snow, ice, slush, or any combination thereof, from sidewalks, driveways or any other place within the Township of Dingman shall not place the same on any public street or thoroughfare after such time as the street or thoroughfare has been plowed and cleared for the purpose of allowing free and safe passage of vehicular traffic thereon.

Any person, partnership or corporation who or which shall violate or permit to be violated the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon being found guilty therefore in a proceeding brought by the Township before a District Justice, pay a fine of not more than one thousand ($1000.00) dollars plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by a municipality as a result thereof. No fine shall commence or be imposed, levied or be payable until the date of the determination of the violation by a district justice. Each day that a violation is continued shall constitute a separate offense, unless the district justice that determines that a violation has occurred further shall determine that there is a good faith basis for the defendant to have believed that there was no such violation, in which event there shall be deemed to have been only one such violation until the fifth day following the date of the determination by such district justice and thereafter every day shall constitute a separate offense. All fines and cost collected for the violation of this ordinance shall be paid over to the Township Supervisors.

In case of any violation of this ordinance the Township Supervisors or, with the approval of the Township Supervisors, an officer of the Township, in addition to other remedies, may institute in the name of the Township any appropriate action or proceeding to prevent, restrain, correct, or abate such violation.