{"id":3517,"date":"2015-02-20T05:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2015-02-20T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T05:28:39","slug":"brick-mayor-no-tolerance-on-sidewalk-shoveling-enforcement-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/02\/brick-mayor-no-tolerance-on-sidewalk-shoveling-enforcement-this-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Mayor: ‘No Tolerance’ On Sidewalk Shoveling Enforcement This Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shoveling snow. (Credit: Elvert Barnes\/Flickr\/File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

When it snows outside, make sure to shovel your sidewalks. You\u2019re risking a potentially costly summons if you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Brick officials are taking a \u201cno tolerance\u201d stance on enforcing an ordinance that requires residents to clear snow off the sidewalk in front of their homes and businesses this year, Mayor John Ducey said this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking a \u2018no tolerance\u2019 approach,\u201d Ducey said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that needs to be done because a lot of kids need to get to school. We have to make sure that the sidewalks are all clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mayor made the statement after a resident who called in to his online radio show told him that portions of the sidewalks on Lanes Mill Road, a heavily-traveled route for students walking to Lanes Mill Elementary School and Brick Memorial High School, were not shoveled.<\/p>\n

Ducey said in each of the recent winter storms, code enforcement officials have been writing summonses to those who have not cleared snow from their sidewalks, a reversal of a previous township policy that gave people 72 hours to remove snow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s really not acceptable,\u201d Ducey said of the previous policy. \u201cThat\u2019s three days, which means three days of kids walking out in the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the township code, homeowners and tenants are required to remove snow \u201cwithin 24 hours of daylight after the snow shall have ceased falling or after the ice has formed.\u201d The only exception to the law covers those who live on cul-de-sacs or dead-end streets.<\/p>\n

There is no specific penalty for the violation listed in the township code, rather, the penalty for violating the ordinance defaults to a general penalty, which is a fine not to exceed $2,000 or no more than 90 days of community service.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely unacceptable for any kids to be walking in the street just because of somebody who didn\u2019t take the opportunity to shovel their sidewalks,\u201d Ducey said.<\/p>\n

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When it snows outside, make sure to shovel your sidewalks. You\u2019re risking a potentially costly summons if you don\u2019t. Brick officials are taking a \u201cno tolerance\u201d stance on enforcing an ordinance that requires residents to clear snow off the sidewalk in front of their homes and businesses this year, Mayor John Ducey said this week. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,985,984,280],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-shoveling","tag-sidewalks","tag-snow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snow_shoveling.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}