Words and phrases, when used in this chapter, except
for sections or Articles to which different or additional definitions
apply, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code,
75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq. (the Act of June 17, 1976, P.L.
162, No. 81), as amended, except that in this chapter the word "street"
may be used interchangeably with the word "highway" and shall have
the same meaning as the word "highway" as defined in the Vehicle Code.
The term "legal holidays," as used in this chapter,
shall mean and include New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include
the feminine.
All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent
nature shall be enacted as ordinances or as parts of ordinances or
as amendments to ordinances of the Township of Patterson.
The Patterson Township Emergency Management Coordinator
shall have the following powers to regulate traffic and parking temporarily
and in time of emergency:
In the case of emergency public works or public events
of limited scope or duration, to restrict or prohibit traffic and/or
parking in limited areas for periods of not more than 72 hours.
These temporary and emergency regulations shall be
enforced by the Fire Department and the police in the same manner
as permanent regulations. Any person who drives or parks a vehicle
in violation of any such regulation or who shall move, remove, destroy,
injure or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made to give
notice of any such regulation shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable
to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this chapter for
a violation of such nature.
The Board of Commissioners may, from time to time,
designate places upon and along the streets in the Township where,
for a period of not more than 90 days, specific traffic and/or parking
regulations, prohibitions and restrictions shall be in force and effect
and shall designate those locations by proper signs and markings.
Such regulations, prohibitions and restrictions shall be effective
just as if they had been specified in this chapter. No person shall
drive or park a vehicle in violation of any such regulation, prohibition
or restriction, and no person shall move, remove, destroy or deface
any sign or marking erected, posted or made by authority of this section.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be liable to the penalty set out in the law or elsewhere
in this chapter for a violation of such nature.
The purpose of this section is to allow for test and
experimental determination of the feasibility and desirability of
permanent changes in the ordinances of the Township relative to traffic
and parking.
The Board of Commissioners shall have authority to
close any street or specific part of a street to vehicular traffic
and to place barriers or station police officers at each end of the
closed portion, while construction or maintenance work is underway
or a special event is being conducted on the closed portion. It shall
be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle upon any such closed
portion.
The Board of Commissioners shall have the authority
to establish a restricted traffic area upon any street where construction
or maintenance work is underway and to station flagmen at each end
of the restricted portion. It shall be unlawful for any person to
drive a vehicle upon any such restricted traffic area at any time
when the flagman is displaying a sign directing that vehicle to stop
or is signaling that vehicle, by a flag or other device, not to proceed.
The police shall have the authority to direct traffic
on the streets in the Township at intersections, in public and in
other places where the Vehicle Code or this chapter applies.
The Police Department of the Township of Patterson
is hereby authorized to enforce all maximum speed limits as are now
or may be from time to time established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
or the Township of Patterson on any roads or highways within the Township
of Patterson.
The Police Department of the Township of Patterson
is hereby authorized to use any and all electronic, mechanical, electrical
or electrical-mechanical devices as are now or from time to time hereafter
authorized for use by a First Class Township by the Pennsylvania Legislature
or Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, including but not limited
to the VASCAR-Plus speed-timing device, to enforce all the aforesaid
maximum speed limits.