The Supervisors of East Allen Township, Northampton
County, Pennsylvania, under the powers vested in them by the Second
Class Township Code, as well as other laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
do hereby ordain and enact this article.
At anytime there are construction vehicles or
machines or other hazards on Township roads and during a change or
alteration of the traffic pattern or flow due to the presence of the
hazard on the road, the person or entity responsible for the hazard
on the road shall provide traffic control devices and warnings for
the safety of motorists approaching and traveling around such hazard.
The warning devices shall include, without limitation, warning signs,
orange cones, warning triangles and the positioning the flagman in
accordance with the most recent revised PennDOT Publication 203, as
necessary. Any restriction of traffic must be reported to the Township
at least 48 hours prior to the disruption of traffic on Township roads.
No type of mud, debris, litter or foreign material shall be deposited, spread or spilled on any Township road at any time. The general contractor, owner of property under construction or person or entity responsible for the deposit of such material on a Township road shall remove such material immediately after notification. In the absence of such removal, the responsible parties shall be subject to fines as set forth in §
208-33 of this article.
Road rollers, traction engines, well-drilling
machines, trucks or vehicles of any description, the wheels of which
have plates, angles or metal projections of any kind being attached
to the rims of the wheels, or any crawler type of equipment which
has plates attached or metal projections of any kind, are prohibited
from passage over, along or across any of the curbing or bituminous
paving of any Township road.
Any person who violates or permits a violation
of this article shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought
before a District Justice under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal
Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default
of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that
such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this article that is violated
shall also constitute a separate offense.