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As used in this part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Borough of Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Jonestown, Lebanon
County, Pennsylvania.
Full chains, strap chains, or other types of chains so mounted
as to give motor vehicles traction in snow.
The mayor of the Borough of Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Any natural person, association, partnership, firm or corporation.
Any precipitation depositing any accumulation on the streets
of the Borough of Jonestown, including but not limited to snow, sleet,
hail, ice or freezing rain.
A state, declared as herein described, under which highway
or street conditions are hazardous and dangerous to the vehicular
and pedestrian traffic.
All streets within the Borough of Jonestown so designed and
marked as hereinafter set forth.
Tires having tread designed for use in mud or snow and being
in such conditions as to serve the purpose for which they are designed.
All motor vehicles using Borough streets, including but not
limited to public and private transportation conveyances, trucks,
and other powered vehicles.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Part 4,
Snow Emergency, Ord. 1-1994, 11/1/1994, as amended.
[Added by Ord. No. 2021-1, 10/5/2021]
1.
A declaration of snow emergency may be made by the Mayor, in his
discretion, in order to facilitate the movement of traffic on all
streets and to combat the hazards or imminent hazards of excessive
snow and ice on streets named as snow emergency routes herein. Such
declaration shall remain in effect until officially terminated by
the Mayor when the facts warrant.
2.
Information as to any such snow emergency and declaration thereof
by the Mayor or imminent anticipation thereof may be disseminated
by the Mayor through available media of communication.
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It shall be a violation thereof also for the operator of a vehicle
which stalls on any street designated in this part as a snow emergency
route during such emergency, if such stalling shall have been by reason
of the failure to have such vehicle equipped with skid chains or with
snow tires having antiskid patterns impressed or cut into the treaded
surfaces to form bars, buttons or blocks especially designed to give
effective traction on snow.
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During such emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person to
park, or to permit to remain parked, on any street named herein any
type of motor vehicle, boat, boat trailer, camper, recreational vehicle
or any trailer used for the purpose of hauling motor vehicles or other
items. However, upon complete removal of all snow from the total parking
area, on each side of the street designated, parking will at once
become again permissible, so long as there is no interference with
the snow removal program of the Borough and no interference with traffic
during the remainder of such emergency.
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Name of Street
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Side
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Location
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King Street
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All directions
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From Hazel Street to North Lancaster Street
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Market Street
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All directions
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From South Mill Street to Swatara Creek Bridge, including square
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Lancaster Street
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All directions
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Little Swatara Creek Bridge to Rose Lane
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It shall be unlawful for any dumpster to be placed on a designated
snow emergency route at any time from December 1 of any year through
March 31 of the following year, except through the acquisition of
an exemption granted by Borough Council or its designee, and then
only for the specified period of time that is approved by the Borough
and subject to conditions imposed by the Borough for the purpose of
ensuring removal of dumpsters when necessary to prevent impeding snow
removal or traffic.
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It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person from December
1 of any year and continuing until March 31 of the following year
to place or cause to be placed any item whatsoever for the purpose
of reserving parking spaces on any street in the Borough during any
periods of precipitation, whether or not a snow emergency has been
declared.
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An official map, available at the Borough office, shall be prepared
designating such snow routes and clarifying the side of each such
street on which parking is prohibited, official copies of such map
to be admissible in evidence. On such snow routes, around the utility
poles, the Mayor, through Borough personnel, is authorized to place
signs reading "SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTE" and may add thereto reference
to this part.
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Violations of this part shall be subject to a fine of not less
than $50 but not exceed $600 per occurrence or vehicle, together with
cost of prosecution.
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Vehicles found in violation of the provisions of this part may
be towed, with costs and responsibility for recovery to be assessed
upon the owner(s).
