The provisions of this chapter shall be severable,
and if any of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional,
illegal or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity
of any of the remaining provisions of this chapter. It is hereby declared
as a legislative intent that this chapter would have been adopted
had such unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise, invalid provision
not been included herein.
A.
All previous ordinances of the Township of Lower Providence
pertaining to the regulation of traffic and parking are hereby repealed.
B.
Overtime parking violations. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter by allowing a vehicle to remain parked beyond the time limit set for legal parking in §§ 138-25 and 138-25.1 of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a summary offense and be sentenced to pay a fine of not exceeding $50 and costs of prosecution; provided, however, that if the notice of violation is returned to the Police Department in the Township Building within 24 hours from the time when the notice was given and the sum of $5 is paid to the officer in charge, such payment shall be deemed full satisfaction of such violation.
[Amended 7-17-2008 by Ord. No. 568]
C.
The provisions of this chapter, insofar as they are
the same as those of ordinances and regulations in force immediately
prior to the enactment of this chapter, are intended as a continuation
of such ordinances and regulations and not as new enactments.
A.
Violations generally. Unless another penalty is expressly
provided by the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code or herein or except as hereinafter
specified, every person convicted of a violation of a provision of
this chapter or any supplement thereto shall be liable to a penalty
of not more than $25 and costs of prosecution.
B.
Overtime parking violations. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter by allowing a vehicle to remain parked beyond the time limit set for legal parking in § 138-25 of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a summary offense and be sentenced to pay a fine of not exceeding $50 and costs of prosecution; provided, however, that if the notice of violation is returned to the Police Department in the Township Building within 24 hours from the time when the notice was given and the sum of $5 is paid to the officer in charge, such payment shall be deemed full satisfaction of such violation.
C.
The Grange Avenue and Visitation Road entries in § 138-19 are adopted in accordance with the authority of the Vehicle Code, and the proper officials of the Township are authorized and directed to see to the purchase and installation, in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicle Code and the Manual of Regulations for Official Traffic Signs, of the necessary signs in respect thereto; and any person who shall violate the provisions of these entries shall, upon summary conviction before a District Justice, be liable to pay a fine of not less than $300, besides costs.
D.
Any person violating any of the provisions of § 138-23 shall, upon summary conviction before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs of prosecution, except that in all cases where a police officer or Fire Marshal of Lower Providence Township shall first give notice of the offense by either handing to the offending operator, or affixing to the motor vehicle in question, a ticket on which he has noted the time and place of the offense, nature of the offense charged and the license registration of the motor vehicle in question, no prosecution shall be instituted for 48 hours thereafter, provided that, if during the said forty-eight-hour period, the offender shall voluntarily appear at the Lower Providence Township Police Department and voluntarily pay $25 to the Township, in lieu of fines and costs, no prosecution for such offense shall thereafter be brought.
[Added 5-22-1997 by Ord. No. 417]
