[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of South Strabane 1-28-1971 by Ord. No. 1-1971; amended in its entirety
at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
That portion of the cartway or roadway immediately surrounding
a building which must be kept open at all times in order for fire
or other emergency equipment to operate effectively in case of fire
or other emergency. Said fire lane/fire apparatus access road is to
be 20 feet in width, extending outward from the curbstone or walkway
normally used by pedestrians, and shall have an unobstructed vertical
clearance of not less than 13 feet six inches.
It shall be unlawful for any person, at any time, to park, leave
standing or allow a vehicle to be parked or to remain standing in
any fire lane/fire apparatus access road as herein established by
this chapter.
Official signs shall be placed along and facing the said fire
lane/fire apparatus access road, which signs shall read "Fire Lane
- No Parking" or "Stopping of Vehicles Prohibited." Said signs shall
be placed at intervals no greater than 25 feet. The curbstone or end
of the pedestrian walkway shall be painted yellow. Also, the area
extending outward from the curbstone or walkway six feet shall be
painted with yellow slash marks, with "No Parking" written within
it.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions hereof shall,
upon summary conviction thereof before a Magisterial District Judge,
be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and the cost of prosecution and,
in default of payment thereof, shall undergo imprisonment for a term
not to exceed five days.
