Reminder to Property Owners with Public Sidewalks: Please Clean your Sidewalks of Snow or Ice. Failure to do so will result in a Summons that if not paid will be a lien on to your property
Posted on: January 20, 2020 - 4:54pm
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON POLICE DEPARTMENT
Chief David A. Dosin
Hastings-on-Hudson Police Department
7 Maple Ave
Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. 10706
REMINDER TO PROPERTY OWNERS WITH PUBLIC SIDEWALKS
PLEASE CLEAN YOUR SIDEWALKS
Dear Residents,
School will be open tomorrow Tuesday, January 21, 2020 please make sure that your sidewalk is clear so pedestrians and school children who walk will be safe on their travels. Temperatures this week will go above freezing during the day and below freezing at night this may cause ice conditions to form on snow covered sidewalks. Shoveling will stop this from occurring.
12 Hours after the end of Snow or Ice precipitation the owners of property with public sidewalks are required to remove snow and ice from sidewalk and make them safe and passable.
Failure to do so will result in a Summons that if not paid will be a lien on to your property.
Chapter 241 of The Village of Hastings Code Book: Snow & Ice Removal
§ 241-1. Duty of owner.
It shall be the duty of the owner of every parcel of real property abutting a public sidewalk to keep such sidewalk free and clear from snow and ice.
§ 241-2. Removal by Village.
Whenever the owner of a parcel of real property abutting a public sidewalk fails to remove snow and ice therefrom within 12 hours following the end of a snowfall or within four hours after written notice by the Superintendent of Public Works to the owner to remove same, the Superintendent of Public Works shall have the right to remove such snow and ice from such sidewalk, and the expenses incurred by the Village for labor, equipment and materials shall be billed to the owner. If such bill is not paid within 30 days from issuance, the expense incurred by the Village shall be assessed against the property and become a lien thereon collected in the same manner as delinquent Village taxes.
§ 241-3. Severe icing.
In the event that snow and ice on any public sidewalk shall be frozen so hard that they cannot be removed without injury to such sidewalk, the owner of such property abutting such sidewalk shall strew the same with salt, sand, sawdust or other suitable material and in such a manner as will render such sidewalk safe for pedestrian traffic. As soon as practical thereafter the owner shall clear such sidewalk of snow, ice and other materials strewn thereon.
§ 241-4. Snow, ice and water falling from buildings.
The owner of any building or other structure abutting a public sidewalk shall not cause, allow or permit snow, ice or water to fall therefrom onto said public sidewalk.
§ 241-5. Depositing snow and ice on streets prohibited.
A. No person, firm or corporation shall cause, deposit, throw, place, pile or plow any snow or ice onto any public street, avenue or roadway within the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson.
B. No person, firm or corporation shall cause, deposit, throw, place, pile or plow any snow or ice onto any parcel of land within six feet of any street, avenue or roadway in such a manner as to cause the height of the snow and ice so piled, gathered or plowed to exceed three feet six inches in height above the existing natural grade of such parcel of land.
C. No person, firm or corporation shall cover any portion of any fire hydrant with snow or ice.
D. The Superintendent of Public Works of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson shall have the right to remove any snow or ice deposited, thrown, placed, piled or plowed in violation of this section, and the costs of the labor, equipment and materials used therefor shall be charged to and paid by the violator. If such bill is not paid within 30 days from issuance, in the case of a property owner, the expenses incurred by the Village shall be assessed against the property and shall become a lien thereon collected in the same manner as delinquent Village taxes.
Sincerely
Chief David Dosin
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