Wherever a space is marked off on any street
for the parking of an individual vehicle, every vehicle parked there
shall be parked wholly within the lines bounding that space, and it
shall be a violation of this article for any person to park a vehicle
or allow it to remain parked otherwise.
[Amended 4-23-1997 by Ord. No. 420J; 7-23-1997; 12-13-2000 by Ord. No. 467]
Parking shall be prohibited at all times in
the following locations:
|
Street
|
Side
|
Between
|
|---|---|---|
|
Amber Drive
|
Both
|
Sandstone Drive to terminus
|
|
Beech Street and Poplar Avenue
|
Northeast and northwest
|
From the westernmost corner of a 33-foot radial
corner forming the intersection of Beech Street and Poplar Avenue
east crossing Poplar Avenue then crossing Beech Street 33.38 feet
to place of beginning
|
|
Bergey Road
|
North
|
Approximately 515 feet from the center of the
intersection of Bergey Road and Cowpath Road extending to the center
of the intersection of Bergey Road, and Lyn Rose Circle
|
|
Bethlehem Pike
|
Both
|
Line Street and a distance of 2,440 feet north
|
|
Bethlehem Pike
|
West
|
A distance of 1,700 feet from south of Unionville
Pike
|
|
Broad Street
|
Both
|
Cowpath Road west to Lansdale Borough line
|
|
Bronze Drive
|
Both
|
North Penn Road west to terminus
|
|
Chestnut Street
|
North
|
500 feet west of School Road
|
|
Chestnut Street
[Repealed 4-28-2004 by Ord. No. 526] | ||
|
Chestnut Street
|
South
|
From 1,200 feet west of School Road west 315
feet
|
|
Chestnut Street
[Added 8-24-2005 by Ord. No. 539] |
South
|
School Road and a point 500 feet from its intersection
with School Road
|
|
Cowpath Road
|
Both
|
Line Street north to Hatfield Borough line
|
|
Cowpath Road
|
East
|
Bergey Road to Hatfield Borough line
|
|
Cowpath Road
|
North
|
(Route 463) northwest of the bridge located
on Cowpath Road, immediately west of the AM Kulp Elementary School
property and southeast of the intersection with Foster Road
|
|
Crystal Drive
|
Both
|
North Penn Road west to terminus
|
|
Diamond Street
|
Both
|
Turnaround area
|
|
Discovery Drive
|
Both
|
1,750 feet from edge of Bethlehem Pike east
to the terminus of the cul-de-sacs
|
|
Fairgrounds Road
|
North
|
528 feet, beginning 1,578 feet from the center
intersection of Elroy Road and Fairgrounds Road
|
|
Fairgrounds Road
|
South
|
528 feet, beginning 917 feet from the center
intersection of Funks Road and Fairgrounds Road
|
|
Forty Foot Road
|
North
|
Hatfield Borough line to Elroy Road
|
|
Line Lexington Road
|
East
|
Merel Drive and Valley Woods Road
|
|
Moyer Road
[Added 4-25-2018 by Ord.
No. 677] |
East
|
From the apex of the turn at Logan Drive 542 feet west
|
|
Moyer Road
[Added 4-25-2018 by Ord.
No. 677] |
West
|
From Logan Drive 455 feet west to the apex of the turn at Schwab
Road (north)
|
|
Moyer Road
[Added 4-25-2018 by Ord.
No. 677] |
West
|
From the apex of the turn at Schwab Road (south) 118 feet west
to the Lansdale Borough boundary line
|
|
North Broad Street
|
Both
|
Lansdale Borough line and Cowpath Road
|
|
North Penn Road
|
Both
|
Unionville Pike to terminus
|
|
Old Bethlehem Pike
|
West
|
Line Lexington Road north to terminus
|
|
Orvilla Road
[Added 11-11-2020 by Ord. No. 693A] |
Snyder Square Drive to Tarrington Way
| |
|
Orvilla Road
|
Both
|
Maple Avenue east 625 feet
|
|
Overbrook Road
|
Both
|
Cowpath Road and Overbrook Road a distance of
200 feet
|
|
Richmond Road
[Added 1-27-2021 by Ord. No. 695] |
Bergey Road and Unionville Pike
| |
|
Sandstone Drive
|
Both
|
North Penn Drive to terminus
|
|
School Road
[Added 10-27-2004 by Ord. No. 532] |
East
|
From a point at its intersection with Unionville
Pike to a point 232 feet south of its intersection with Unionville
Pike
|
|
School Road
|
Northeast
|
From the center of the intersection of School
Road and Orvilla Road to the center of the intersection of School
Road and East Vine Street
|
|
Schwab Road
[Added 4-25-2018 by Ord.
No. 677] |
Both
|
From the apex of the turn at Moyer Road 108 feet north on both
sides of the road
|
|
Topaz Drive
|
Both
|
Sandstone Drive to terminus
|
|
Unionville Pike
[Added 10-27-2004 by Ord. No. 532] |
South
|
From a point at its intersection with School
Road to a point 623 feet east of its intersection with School Road
|
|
Walnut Street
[Amended 3-22-2006 by Ord. No. 551] |
North
|
Bethlehem Pike and a point 596 feet east
|
|
Walnut Street
[Amended 3-22-2006 by Ord. No. 551] |
North
|
County Line Road and a point 2,014 feet west
|
|
Walnut Street
[Amended 3-22-2006 by Ord. No. 551] |
South
|
Bethlehem Pike and County Line Road
|
|
West Walnut Street
|
Both
|
West Walnut Street and Bethlehem Pike a distance
of 815 feet
|
Parking shall be prohibited in the following
locations at all times on the days and between the hours indicated
in this section, as follows:
|
Name of Street
|
Location
|
Days/Hours
|
|---|---|---|
|
Forrest Hills Drive
[Added by Ord. No. 531] |
The bulb of the northern cul-de-sac and 20 feet
on each side from such bulb
|
Weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
|
|
Forrest Hills Drive
[Added 11-11-2020 by Ord. No. 693A] |
Full length of street
|
Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m., except when school is closed
|
|
Old Bethlehem Pike
|
East side, Line Lexington Road north to terminus
|
Between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
|
|
Walnut Street
[Added 3-22-2006 by Ord. No. 551] |
North, between a point 596 feet east of Bethlehem
Pike and a point 2,014 feet west of County Line Road
|
Weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
|
[Amended 11-12-2008 by Ord. No. 577]
A.
Prohibiting commercial vehicles, trailers and motor
homes to be parked on roadways within Hatfield Township between the
hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.:
(1)
Legislative intent. For the purposes of public safety,
because of the size of certain vehicles and the dearth of available
parking spaces, the Commissioners and the Police Department of Hatfield
Township have deemed it necessary to prohibit certain vehicles from
being parked on roads and highways within the Township.
(2)
Provisions. In accordance with the above legislative
intent, parking of commercial trucks, except those with Pennsylvania
license registration of Class 1 through 4b, shall not be parked on
any roads or highways within Hatfield Township between the hours of
9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. No trailer or motor home of any class shall
be parked on any roads or highways within Hatfield Township between
the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(3)
Violations and penalties. Any person, firm or corporation
who shall violate any provision of this section shall, upon conviction
thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus court
costs and, in default of payment of same, be sentenced to a term of
imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, unless a different penalty is
prescribed by this chapter or the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania.[1] Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a
separate offense. In addition, the Township, through its solicitor,
may institute injunctive, mandamus or any other appropriate action
or proceeding at law or in equity for the enforcement of this section.
Any court of competent jurisdiction shall have the right to issue
restraining orders, temporary or permanent injunctions, mandamus or
other appropriate forms of remedy or relief.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.
No person shall park a vehicle, or allow it
to remain parked, for longer than the time indicated, in any of the
following locations, at any time on the days and between the hours
indicated:
|
Name of Street
|
Side
|
Between
|
Days
|
Hours
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Chestnut Street
|
Left
|
Little league ball diamond to the parking lot
|
All
|
5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
|
|
Montgomery Street
|
--
|
Broad Street and Walnut Street
|
All
|
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
|
[Amended 7-25-2001 by Ord. No. 476; 2-26-2003 by Ord. No.
506]
The following areas are established as handicapped
parking zones, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle,
or allow it to remain parked, in any such zone, unless such vehicle
displays a handicapped registration plate or disabled veterans registration:
A.
Beginning 30 feet from the northeast corner of Overbrook
Road and Cowpath Road, and continuing to the east along the north
side of Overbrook Road an additional distance of 90 feet.
B.
Beginning at 479 feet from the northeast corner of
Denbeigh Drive and Fairgrounds Road, and continuing to the north along
the east side of Denbeigh Drive an additional distance of 20 feet.
[Amended 8-28-2002 by Ord. No. 492; 12-11-2002 by Ord. No.
500]
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop,
stand or park a vehicle on the streets of Hatfield Township designated
as follows:
|
Name of Street
|
Side
|
Between
|
|---|---|---|
|
Denbeigh Drive
|
East
|
From a point at its intersection with Fairgrounds
Road to a point 45 feet north of its intersection with Fairgrounds
Road
|
|
Denbeigh Drive
|
West
|
From a point at its intersection with Fairgrounds
Road to a point 62 feet north of its intersection with Fairgrounds
Road
|
|
Derstine Road
[Added 6-26-2013 by Ord. No. 645] |
Both
|
1,769 feet from the apex of the curb radius on the north side
of Cowpath Road and 233 feet to the apex of the curb radius on the
south side of the intersection at Cowpath Road
|
|
Fairgrounds Road
|
North
|
From a point 810 feet west of Cowpath Road to
a point 1,130 feet west of Cowpath Road
|
|
Fairgrounds Road
|
South
|
From a point 810 feet west of Cowpath Road to
a point 1,110 feet west of Cowpath Road
|
|
Forty Foot Road
[Added 11-18-2009 by Ord. No. 589] |
North
|
From a point at its intersection with Welsh Road to a point
at the Forty Foot Road exit of the Hatfield Pointe Shopping Center
|
|
Squirrel Lane
|
North
|
From a point 361 feet west of Pinegrove Avenue
to a point 399 feet west of Pinegrove Avenue
|
A.
Findings and purpose. The Township finds that certain
residential areas in the Township are subjected to commuter vehicle
parking, therefore, depriving the residents of those areas of spaces
in which to park their own vehicles; those residential streets are
also subjected to a high degree of commuter traffic which substantially
reduces the quality of the ambient air level; and the establishment
of a parking permit program for certain affected areas should facilitate
efficient movement of traffic by providing for parking preference
during certain hours of the day and days of the week. Therefore, the
Township considers it to be in the interest of the people of the Township
to provide for the establishment of a residential permit parking program
to insure primary access to available parking spaces by neighborhood
residents and also to provide a cleaner ambient air level.
B.
COMMUTER VEHICLE
PROPRIETOR
RESIDENT
RESIDENTIAL AREA
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, words
and terms listed in this subsection, as follows, shall have the following
meanings:
A motor vehicle parked in a residential area by a person
not a resident of that residential area.
A person who owns or leases real estate within a residential
area of which he is not a resident, but who owns or manages a business
enterprise or professional office maintained at that address; for
the purpose of this section, a proprietor shall be entitled to one
parking permit for that business or professional office address.
A person who owns or leases real property within a residential
area and who maintains either a voting residence, or bona fide occupancy,
or both, at that address.
A contiguous area containing public highways or parts of
public highways primarily abutted by residential property or residential
and nonbusiness property (such as schools, parks, places of worship,
hospitals and nursing homes).
C.
Criteria. The residential areas designated in Subsection D of this section are those deemed impacted and hence eligible for residential parking on the basis of the following criteria:
(1)
During any period between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and
6:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, except legal holidays, the number
of vehicles parked (or standing), legally or illegally, on the streets
in the area is equal to 70% or more of the legal, on-street parking
capacity of the area. For the purpose of this criterion, a legal parking
space shall be 20 linear feet.
(2)
During the same period as specified in Subsection C(1), directly above, 10% or more of the vehicles parked (or standing) on the streets in the area are not registered in the name of a person residing in the area. For the purpose of this criterion, the latest available information from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Licensing of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation regarding registration of motor vehicles shall be used; provided, in determining that a specific area identified as impacted and eligible for residential permit parking is designated as a residential permit parking area, the following factors are taken into consideration:
(a)
The local and metropolitan needs with respect
to clean air and environment;
(b)
The possibility of a reduction in total vehicle
miles driven in the Township;
(c)
The likelihood of alleviating traffic congestion,
illegal parking and related health and safety hazards;
(d)
The proximity of public transportation to the
residential area;
(e)
The desire and need of the residents for residential
permit parking and their willingness to bear the administrative costs
in connection with it; and
(f)
The need for parking in excess of the residential
permit parking program in proximity to establishments located in the
residential permit parking area and used by the general public for
religious, health or educational purposes.
D.
Designation of residential permit parking areas.
E.
Application for permit. Application for a residential
parking permit shall be made to the Chief of Police by the person
desiring the permit, who shall be only the owner or the driver of
a motor vehicle who resides on or is a proprietor of property immediately
adjacent to a street or other location within a residential parking
permit area. A separate application shall be required for each motor
vehicle, and each application shall be accompanied by a permit fee,
set pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Commissioners, which
shall be for the use of the Township, to be applied to the cost of
administering the residential permit parking program. Each application
shall contain the following information: The name of the owner or
the driver, as the case may be, of the motor vehicle; the address
of the resident or the proprietor, as the case may be; the make, model
and registration number of the motor vehicle; and the driver number
as taken from the applicant's current driver's license. At the discretion
of the Chief of Police, the applicant shall be required, at the time
of making application, to present his driver's license and the vehicle
registration card.
F.
Issuance of permit. Upon receipt of the application
and the permit fee, and determination by him that the information
upon the application shows that the applicant is entitled to a residential
parking permit, the Chief of Police shall issue to the applicant a
residential parking permit, which shall be valid for the remainder
of the calendar year. The permit shall display the serial and registration
numbers of the motor vehicles, the residential parking area number,
and the expiration date. The permit shall be renewable annually before
the expiration date, upon making application for renewal and payment
of the permit fee. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section
for any person to display other than the current and valid permit
while standing or parking in a residential permit parking area at
any time when those permits are to be displayed.
G.
Temporary and exemption parking permits. Temporary
parking permits may be issued by the Chief of Police, upon payment
of a fee established pursuant to a resolution, to bona fide visitors
of residents of a designated residential permit parking area, and
exemption parking permits may be issued, without payment of a fee,
to handicapped persons.
H.
Responsibility of permit holder.
(1)
Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the
contrary, the holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted
to stand or park a motor vehicle operated by him in any designated
residential parking area during those times when parking of motor
vehicles is permitted in that area. While a vehicle for which a residential
parking permit has been issued is so parked, that permit shall be
displayed so as to be clearly visible through the windshield of the
vehicle. A residential parking permit shall not guarantee or reserve
to the holder a parking space within a designated residential permit
parking area.
(2)
A residential parking permit shall not authorize its
holder to stand or park a motor vehicle in any place where or at any
time when stopping, standing or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited
or set aside for other specified types of vehicles, nor shall the
permit exempt its holder from the observance of any traffic or parking
regulation other than residential permit parking regulation or restriction.
(3)
No person other than the permit holder whose name
appears on the permit shall use a residential parking permit or display
it on a vehicle operated; any such use or display by a person other
than the permit holder shall constitute a violation of this section
by the permit holder and by the person who so used or displayed the
parking permit.
(4)
It shall constitute a violation of this section for
any person falsely to represent himself as eligible for a residential
parking permit or to furnish false information in an application to
the Chief of Police in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
I.
Revocation of permits. The Chief of Police shall have
authority to revoke the residential parking permit of any permit holder
found to be in violation of any provision of this section. Upon written
notification to him of the revocation, the permit holder shall surrender
the permit to the Chief of Police. Failure to do so, when so requested,
shall constitute a violation of this section; provided, any person
receiving such a notice may, within 10 days after the date of the
notice, appeal to Board of Commissioners for a hearing on the revocation,
and the decision of Board of Commissioners shall be final.
[Added 12-21-2009 by Ord. No. 592]
A.
FIRE LANE
PARK, PARKING or PARKED
VEHICLE
Definitions: The following terms shall have the following definitions
ascribed to them for purposes of this section only:
An area marked by signage or pavement striping or lettering
as "No Parking – Fire Lane" or "No Parking By Order Of Fire
Marshal" or similar wording or marking denoting an area as a fire
lane in the Township of Hatfield.
The placement of a vehicle in a stationary position without
a properly licensed operator sitting in the driver's seat or with
a properly licensed operator sitting in the driver's seat who refuses
to obey the lawful order of the Township Fire Marshal, or his designee,
to remove the vehicle from a fire lane.
Any motor vehicle, pedacycle or other mode or means of transportation.
B.
It shall be unlawful, and a violation of this section, for any person
to park a vehicle in a fire lane.
C.
In the event of a fire or other emergency where a vehicle is parked
in a fire lane that blocks access to a building, the Township Fire
Marshal, or his designee, shall have the power to remove said vehicle
at the sole cost and expense of the owner or operator of the vehicle.
Neither the Township nor its employees, agents or others working under
the Township's authority shall be liable for any damage to any vehicle
parked in a fire lane in violation of this section.
D.
In addition to the Hatfield Township Police Department, the Township
Fire Marshal, or his designee, shall have authority to enforce the
provisions of this section.
[Amended 4-12-1995 by Ord. No. 420D; 5-22-2002 by Ord. No.
488]
A.
Any person who violates any provision of this article
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine as specified in
the Vehicle Code; [1] provided, it shall be the duty of the police officers
and of parking enforcement personnel of the Township to report to
the appropriate official all violations of any provision of this article,
indicating, in each case, the section violated; the license number
of the vehicle involved in the violation; the location where the violation
took place; and any other facts that might be necessary in order to
secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.
B.
In order to facilitate the prompt payment of fines
resulting from parking violations, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in the Motor Vehicle Code pertaining to parking
violations, if any driver or owner of a motor vehicle issued a parking
citation voluntarily appears within 72 hours after the issuance of
said citation at the Hatfield Township Police Building and indicates
his/her desire to plead guilty to the charge and pay a fine of $15
to Hatfield Township, no prosecution shall be pursued.
