No person shall operate a motor vehicle or tractor
upon any sidewalk in the Township, nor shall any person operate a
motor vehicle upon or across any sidewalk except in order to gain
access to or egress from a driveway or alley at such locations where
the curb, if such sidewalk is curbed, shall have been properly cut
down for the purpose.
The speed limit for both directions of traffic along the highways or parts thereof described in Schedule I (§
175-76) is hereby established at the rate of speed indicated.
Traffic control signals shall be installed and operated at the intersection of those highways described in Schedule II (§
175-77).
The highways or parts of highways described in Schedule III (§
175-78) are hereby designated as one-way streets in the direction indicated, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to drive or operate any vehicle, including motor vehicles, horses, wagons or bicycles, over or upon said highways and portions of highways in the Township in a direction contrary to that indicated.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a motor vehicle or tractor to make a U-turn on any of the highways or parts thereof described in Schedule IV (§
175-79).
No person shall make a turn of the kind designated (left, right, all) at any of the intersections described in Schedule V (§
175-80).
[Added 7-12-1999 by Ord. No. 2317]
Pursuant to § 3111 of the Vehicle
Code of Pennsylvania, no person shall make a turn of the kind designated
(left, right and/or all) at any of the nonintersections as described
in the attached schedule.
All vehicular traffic shall keep to the right of the following structures or barriers located in the center of the intersections specified in Schedule VI (§
175-81).
The highways described in Schedule VII (§
175-82) are hereby established as through highways, and the operator of every vehicle or tractor upon approaching any such highway at any intersection thereof (except for such intersections where there are now or shall hereafter be located official traffic signals) shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable distance, before entering any such through highway.
The intersections described in Schedule VIII (§
175-83) are hereby established as stop intersections, (NOTE: These stop intersections are in addition to highways intersecting with the through highways established by §
175-83.) and official stop signs shall be erected in such a position upon the first-named highway as to face traffic approaching the second-named highway, in the direction or directions indicated. All vehicles and tractors approaching any such intersection upon the first-named highway, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable distance, before entering any such intersection.
The intersections described in Schedule IX (§
175-84) are hereby established as yield-right-of-way intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected in such a position upon the first-named highway as to face traffic approaching the second-named highway in the direction or directions indicated. All vehicles and tractors approaching any such intersection upon the first-named highway, in the direction or directions indicated, shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on the second-named highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time that the operator of such vehicle or tractor is moving across or within such intersection.
The areas on highways described in Schedule X (§
175-85) are hereby established as no-passing zones and it shall be unlawful for any person driving a vehicle to pass any other vehicle which is proceeding in the same direction.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle or tractor, except a passenger vehicle (but not including any passenger vehicle drawing any trailer or towing any other vehicle) upon any of the highways or parts of highways described in Schedule XI (§
175-86); provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the operation of any commercial vehicle or tractor upon any highway or portion thereof listed in said schedule where such operation thereon shall be necessary in order to pick up or deliver any goods, wares, merchandise or material from or to any premises located upon any such highway or portion thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any commercial vehicle or other tractor, trailer or tractor-trailer combination, having a gross weight in excess of that herein respectively prescribed, upon any of the highways or portions thereof described in Schedule XII (§
175-87), except for the purpose of making local deliveries on that highway.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
any vehicle or tractor upon the highway in the Township that is under
construction, resurfacing or repair, in disregard of any official
sign, barricade or notice that the same is closed to vehicular traffic.
The operator of any motor vehicle involved in
an accident in the Township and required by law to report such accident
to any department or agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or
any other person required to make such report, shall, at the time
of making such report to the commonwealth, make a written report to
the Superintendent of Police of the Township containing the same information.
[Added 10-10-1989 by Ord. No. 2055]
Through traffic shall be restricted on those roadways or portions thereof described in Schedule XIIIA (§
175-88.1).
[Added 3-8-1993 by Ord. No. 2169]
The streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XIIIB (§
175-88.2) are designated as hazardous roadways.