Residents are NOT ALLOWED to push snow off their property and into the roadways or sidewalks or in front of fire hydrants or loading/unloading areas.  Residents will be held responsible for their plow contractors’ actions when maintaining their property including any fines.

Please see the Second-Class Township Code as well as WVT Code listed below for additional information

PA Second Class Township Code 1933 Act 69, Article 23

Section 2326.  Obstructions and Nuisances.–Any person who obstructs any public road or commits any nuisance thereon by felling trees, making fences, turning the road, diverting water onto or in any other way and who does not, on notice given by the board of supervisors, immediately remove the obstruction or nuisance and repair the damages done to the road commits a summary offense. Nothing in this section shall debar a prosecution for any nuisance as in case of misdemeanor at common law.

West Vincent Township Code:

• 309-9Depositing of snow and ice restricted.

No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow or ice on or immediately next to a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway, or loading and unloading areas, except that snow and ice may be mounded by the Township within public rights-of-way associated with the clearing of the cartway therein.

• 309-11Enforcement and penalties.

This article shall be enforced by action brought before the Magisterial District Judge in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure. Violators shall be fined based on the following:

1. First violation per calendar year: warning

2. Second violation per calendar year: minimum of $100

3. Third and subsequent violations per calendar year: minimum of $500 per violation and may be imprisoned to the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses.