[Adopted 7-19-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-4]
The Supervisors of East Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, under the powers vested in them by the Second Class Township Code,[1] as well as other laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby ordain and enact this article.
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Editor’s Note: See 53 P.S. § 65101 et seq.
At anytime there are construction vehicles or machines or other hazards on Township roads and during a change or alteration of the traffic pattern or flow due to the presence of the hazard on the road, the person or entity responsible for the hazard on the road shall provide traffic control devices and warnings for the safety of motorists approaching and traveling around such hazard. The warning devices shall include, without limitation, warning signs, orange cones, warning triangles and the positioning the flagman in accordance with the most recent revised PennDOT Publication 203, as necessary. Any restriction of traffic must be reported to the Township at least 48 hours prior to the disruption of traffic on Township roads.
No type of mud, debris, litter or foreign material shall be deposited, spread or spilled on any Township road at any time. The general contractor, owner of property under construction or person or entity responsible for the deposit of such material on a Township road shall remove such material immediately after notification. In the absence of such removal, the responsible parties shall be subject to fines as set forth in § 208-33 of this article.
Road rollers, traction engines, well-drilling machines, trucks or vehicles of any description, the wheels of which have plates, angles or metal projections of any kind being attached to the rims of the wheels, or any crawler type of equipment which has plates attached or metal projections of any kind, are prohibited from passage over, along or across any of the curbing or bituminous paving of any Township road.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.