[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Riverside as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment 1 - Brake Retarder Diagrams
[Adopted 11-2-2015 by Ord. No. 4-2015]
This article shall be known as the "Riverside Borough engine suppression/brake retarder/engine brake Ordinance."
The Borough Council of the Borough of Riverside, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, finds as a fact that the operation of an engine brake or an engine suppression device or a compression brake on a gasoline-powered or diesel-powered motor vehicle not equipped with exhaust mufflers, or equipped with defective or modified exhaust mufflers, so as to create excessive noise through the use of said engine brake or engine suppression device or compression brake, adversely affects the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the Borough of Riverside and, therefore, is a nuisance in fact.
No gasoline-powered or diesel-powered motor vehicles shall be operated on the streets, roads, alleys or highways listed below within the Borough of Riverside, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, utilizing, in said operation, an engine brake, engine suppression device or compression brake, without exhaust mufflers, or with defective or modified exhaust mufflers permitting excessive noise to be created by said motor vehicle.
The streets subject to this prohibition shall be as follows:
A. 
State Route 4001 (Sunbury Road) from just east of the Rush Township line to just west of the Mill Street intersection.
B. 
State Route 54 from the Borough of Danville to the Riverside Borough line.
This article shall not apply to emergency driving situations requiring the utilization of an engine brake to protect the safety and property of the residents of Riverside Borough, other motor vehicle operators, pedestrians, and the operator and passengers of the motor vehicle involved in said emergency situation.
Any person, firm, corporation or organization violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon summary conviction before a District Magistrate having jurisdiction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $50 or more than $300 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of the payment thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment in any county jail for a period not to exceed 10 days.
This article shall become effective 30 days after its enactment or adoption.
The provisions of this article shall be severable and if any of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, or otherwise unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining portions hereof shall not be affected thereby.