SNOW EMERGENCY CANCELLED Mar 2, 2015

                                                BERGENFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT

                                                      MEDIA RELEASE- INCIDENT

INCIDENT:  SNOW EMERGENCY CANCELLED  

OCCURRED: March 2, 2015   2:00 pm

LOCATION: Borough of Bergenfield

The snow emergency issued on March 1, 2015 has been cancelled. As reported by Police Operations and after consultation with the Department of Public Works, the area roadways are sufficiently cleared for traffic flow and there no major incidents to report.

Residents and snow removal contractors are reminded to refrain from throwing snow onto the roadways as it causes a traffic hazard on roadways previously cleared and is a violation of Borough Ordinance -Chapter 273.

Article III. Snow and Ice Removal

[Adopted 12-16-1975 by Ord. No. 1046 as Sec. 3-6 of the Revised General Ordinances]

§ 273-9. Removal required.

The owner or tenant of lands abutting or bordering on paved sidewalks of the streets, avenues, highways and public places shall remove all snow and ice from the same within 24 hours after the snow and ice shall have ceased to fall or form.

§ 273-10. Removal by Borough; cost.

In the event of the refusal or neglect of an owner or occupant of land to comply with the provisions of this article, the Street Commissioner or other official having charge of the streets may cause the snow or ice to be removed from the sidewalks or walkways. The cost of removal, as ascertained by the Council, shall be certified to the Tax Assessor and shall be added to and form a part of the taxes next to be levied and assessed upon the land and shall be a lien upon the land until paid.

§ 273-11. Prohibition against throwing snow and ice onto public streets.

[Added 11-4-1987 by Ord. No. 2033]

No person, firm or corporation shall cast or throw snow or ice onto a public street or thoroughfare.

§ 273-12. Violations and penalties.

For violation of any provision of this article, the penalties set forth in Chapter 1, Article II, General Penalty, shall apply. 

Winter Weather Advisory-Snow Emergency will be in Effect

ALERT: SNOW EMERGENCY ISSUED  Sunday March 1, 2015 begins 10:00 AM

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory and a Hazardous Weather Outlook until 7:00 AM on Monday, March 2.

NWS Forecast Bergenfield NJ

Winter Weather Advisory in effect from March 1, 10:00 AM EST until March 2, 07:00 AM EST

Hazardous Weather Outlook is in effect



Based on this advisory, the Borough of Bergenfield will have a SNOW EMERGENCY IN EFFECT on Sunday, March 1, 2015, beginning at 10:00 AM and it will remain in effect until further notice.

NO OVERNIGHT PARKING WILL BE AUTHORIZED while the SNOW EMERGENCY is in effect. 

The Bergenfield Police will enforce the no parking ban under the snow emergency under section D of Ordinance 299-12. This states that the snow emergency remains in effect until the streets have been plowed sufficiently and to the extent that parking will not interfere with the normal flow of traffic.

Department of Public Works personnel are prepared for the storm and will handle salting and plowing of the roadways. Officers will have the authority to tow any vehicle that is abandoned and interfering with traffic flow or the clearing of snow from the roadways.

**The snow emergency will remain in effect until further notice which shall include until after the snow has ceased or until the streets have been plowed sufficiently and to the extent that parking will not interfere with the normal flow of traffic.


Borough Ordinance 299-12. Snow emergency.
A. A snow emergency shall exist whenever snow has fallen and the accumulation is such that it covers the street or highway. In addition to this, when weather conditions cause a state or condition of the street that is hazardous or dangerous to vehicular or pedestrian traffic even if the entire street or highway is not covered by snow shall constitute a snow emergency when declared by the Chief of Police, or in his absence, the ranking police officer in charge.

B. Definition: As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
SNOW: Any precipitation depositing any accumulation and shall be deemed to include snow, sleet, and hail, ice, freezing rain or any combination thereof.

SNOW TIRES: Tires with or without studs and having treads designed for use in the snow which tread shall be of sufficient depth to accomplish the purpose for which the tire was designed.

C. Snow emergency declared. Upon the occurrence of a snow emergency as hereinabove defined, the Chief of Police, or in his absence, the ranking police officer shall have the authority to declare such an emergency. Within one hour after such a declaration, no person shall cause, permit, allow or suffer any vehicle owned or driven by him to become stalled or immobile on any portion of any street in the Borough of Bergenfield because of the failure of the vehicle to be equipped with snow tires or chains. The Chief of Police or the ranking officer shall immediately inform the public of said snow emergency by issuing a press release to the local and metropolitan radio, television and news services.

D. Snow emergency routes. All streets of the Borough of Bergenfield are snow emergency routes upon which no parking shall be allowed during a snow emergency, and such parking prohibition, shall remain in effect until after the snow has ceased or until the streets have been plowed sufficiently and to the extent that parking will not interfere with the normal flow of traffic or until otherwise terminated by the Chief of Police, or in his absence, the ranking officer, in the same manner as declared in above.

Scams-Frauds: Emails asking for your information

Would you reply to this email below? Hopefully not. Yes, the BPD received this email. We know our faithful followers are smart enough to never fall prey to these type of scams. Pass this information on to your unsuspecting friends and most importantly, your family members. These cyber scam artists usually target elderly unsuspecting citizens who might read this and believe it true. It is not. Watch out for your friends, family and neighbors. Be a part of the fight against crime, even cyber-crime, by helping to spread the word on fraud-scam emails. Click the links below for information on scams like these.

 http://scam-detector.com/forums/forum/notification-email-scams/36-watch-out-for-james-b-comey-from-fbi

 http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/e-scams


Copy/Paste of email received. I love the last part in red at end of email.

I think we can help. Hmm, let's see. What if I hit this button:
Click!

Problem solved!
 ==================================================================

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division

J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC

JAMES B. COMEY

Attention Beneficiary,

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, it is because of the restrictions imposed by your Mail/Internet Service Provider, we urge you to treat it genuinely.

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo/Mr.Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Good luck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes. Now how would you like to receive your payment? Because we have two method of payment which is by Cheque or by ATM card?

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).

We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared.

To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $250 Usd only and nothing more as everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $250.00 only.

Dr. Lord Ruben 

ATM Card Center Director

Email: atmpaymentcenter1@foxmail.com

Private Email:    lordbenn@foxmail.com

Direct Telephone line: Ask for his number

Do contact Lord Ruben of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:

FULL NAMES:

DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD

SEX:

DATE OF BIRTH:

OCCUPATION:

TELEPHONE NUMBER:

EMAIL ADDRESS:

On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $250.00 for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM CARD Release Order, after which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay or extra fee.

JAMES B. COMEY

DIRECTOR

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Lord Ruben of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.