BOROUGH OF FAIR LAWN
SNOW PLOWING AND SALTING PROCEDURE
The Department of Public Works would like to advise all residents of their
Snow Plowing and Street Salting procedures for the upcoming winter months.
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 and 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. N.J.S.A.
40:49-5 )
*This provision may change due to weather conditions and breakdowns of snow
plow and vehicular equipment.
