[Adopted at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Words and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code (the Act
of June 17, 1976 P.L. 162 No. 81) as amended. The words streets, roadways,
highways and alleys shall have the same meaning as the word "highway"
as defined in the Vehicle Code. "Township" means Mount Pleasant Township,
Washington County, Pennsylvania, a municipal body having its principal
address at 31 McCarrell Road Hickory, PA 15340.
[Amended 11-18-2015 by Ord. No. 136; 11-20-2019 by Ord. No. 150]
A.
The following streets or roadways shall be designated as having no
parking as described below during all times, and it shall be unlawful
for any person or corporation to park, or to allow to remain parked,
on the designated street and/or roadway any vehicle, except by special
event/occasion permit issued by the Mount Pleasant Township Police
Department as provided hereunder. The said designated streets are
as follows:
|
Street
|
Side
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
|
Brown Street
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Cherry Valley Estates PRD, all roads
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Church Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Dire Drive
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Dogwood Street
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
First Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Fourth Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Grandview Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Kler Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Lakeside Drive
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Lakeview Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Meadows Street
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Meriage Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Penn Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Portage Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Route 50
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Second Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Shoreline Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Stillwater Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Summer Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Sunrise Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Third Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Top Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Valley View Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Wabash Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
(except by Township permit in designated areas)
|
|
Washington Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
(Village of Hickory)
|
|
Waterdam Commons
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
B.
Temporary parking permits. Where parking is otherwise prohibited under Subsection A of this section, the Township Chief of Police may, upon request, issue temporary parking permits for special events or other temporary circumstances, to authorize temporary on-street parking by a resident or by a resident's bona fide visitors, upon the Chief's finding that such proposed temporary on-street parking will not pose undue traffic or other public safety concerns.
C.
All violations of this section shall be punishable as set forth under
the appropriate provisions of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code.
A.
The following maximum speed limits are imposed and
no person shall operate a vehicle at a speed in excess of the following:
[Amended 7-28-2010 by Ord. No. 118; 9-25-2019 by Ord. No. 148]
|
Name of Street
|
Speed Limit
(mph)
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
|
First Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
South Second Street (Southview)
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Second Street (Westland)
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Third Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Fourth Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Agape Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Allegna Way
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Allison Avenue
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Antill Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Baker Road
|
15/25
|
15 mph first 300 feet from Baker Road/Fort Cherry Road intersection;
then 25 mph remaining length
|
|
Beechnut Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Belgium Hollow Road
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Bowen Road
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Brown Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Caldwell Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Caleffe Lane
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Carter Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Casey Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Chapman Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Chestnut Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Chiarelli Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Church Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Club Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Covered Bridge Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Cowden Road
|
25
|
Intersection + 500 feet
|
|
Crawford Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Culley Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Dairy Road
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Dire Drive
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Dogwood Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Donaldson Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Eleanor Drive
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Elm Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Galati Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Gilbert Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Grandview Avenue
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Headwater Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Herriott Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Hidden Acres Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Hillside Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Hoop Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Jacobs Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Johnston Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Kelley Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Kelso Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Kler Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Kozares Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Kress Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Lakeside Drive
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Lakeview Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Loffert Road
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
South Main Street (Southview)
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Martin Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Meadow Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Menechi Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Meriage Street (Township Road 493)
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Miller Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Oak Ridge Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Oak Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Orchard Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Penn Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Penny Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
South Pleasant Street (Southview)
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Plum Run Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Portage Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Primrose Road
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Prospect Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Quarry Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Railroad Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Ridge Road
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Sabo Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Salvini Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Saw Mill Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Serenity Farms Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Shady Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Shoreline Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Short Street (Township Road 606)
|
15
|
Between Township Road 493 and State Route 4012
|
|
Skyline Drive
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Skyview Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Snedecker Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Stewart Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Stillwater Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Summer Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Sunrise Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Testa Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Top Street
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Toth Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Valleyview Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
South Wabash Street (Southview)
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Walnut Road
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Washington Avenue
|
35
|
Entire length
|
|
Waterdam Commons
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
White Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Woodland Road
|
25
|
Entire length
|
|
Woodrow Drive
|
25
|
Entire length to Cross Creek Township
|
|
Wussick Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Zombeck Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
|
Zuk Lane
|
15
|
Entire length
|
B.
An official traffic control device shall be erected
and shall indicate the beginning and end of said controlled traffic
zone to traffic approaching in each direction.
C.
The Mount Pleasant Township Police Department is hereby
authorized to use any mechanical, electrical and/or electronic device
to calculate the speed of a vehicle, for purposes of this article,
as approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
D.
This article shall not affect any maximum speed limits
established in school zones, bridges, hazardous grades, work zones
or railroad crossings.
E.
Any person violating the maximum speed limits set
forth in this section shall, upon conviction by a Magisterial District
Judge, be sentenced to pay fines and costs as established by the Pennsylvania
Motor Vehicle Act for exceeding maximum speed limits.
A.
The following are hereby established as stop intersections,
and official stop signs shall be erected in such a position as to
face traffic approaching the second-named street (the intersecting
or through street) on the first-named street (the stop street) in
the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every
driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named
street or stop street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall
stop the vehicle as required by 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b) of
the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, and shall not proceed into or
cross the second-named street or intersection or through street until
he or she has followed all applicable requirements of that section
of the law.
|
Stop Street
|
Intersecting or
Through Street
|
Direction
|
|---|---|---|
|
Bowen Road
|
Cherry Valley Road
|
South
|
|
Ridge Road
|
Miller Road
|
North
|
|
Ridge Road
|
Miller Road
|
South
|
|
Sabo Road
|
Washington Avenue
|
On Sabo Road at both intersections with Washington
Avenue and on Sabo Road eastbound where the spur of Sabo Road off
Washington Avenue intersects with the main portion of Sabo Road
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section
shall upon conviction of the same be sentenced to pay a fine of $25
costs and any fees set by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania such as
for the CAT Fund and EMS.
