Borough of East Petersburg, PA Chapter 105 Speed-Timing Devices

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of East Petersburg 3-20-1984 by Ord. No. 156. Amendments noted where applicable.]

GENERAL REFERENCES

Vehicles and traffic — Ch. 116.

§ 105-1 Authorization to enforce speed restrictions.

Any police officer, to the extent allowed by law, may enforce the speed restrictions authorized under Subchapter F of Chapter 33 of the Vehicle Code, Act of June 17, 1976, P.L. 162, No. 81, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq. (Vehicle Code), as the same presently provides or may be hereafter amended.

§ 105-2 Authorization to use devices.

The rate of speed of any vehicle may be timed on any street or highway within the Borough of East Petersburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by a police officer using an approved electrical and/or mechanical speed-timing device.

§ 105-3 Approval and testing.

All electrical and/or mechanical speed-timing devices shall be of a type approved by the Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and shall be calibrated and tested in accordance with the regulations prescribed by said Department of Transportation.

§ 105-4 Posting of signs.

Legible signs giving public notice of the use of speed-timing devices in the Borough of East Petersburg may be posted at or near the public highways at the boundaries of or within the Borough.

§ 105-5 Violations and penalties.

Every person convicted of a summary for a violation of any speed restriction authorized under the Vehicle Code shall be sentenced to pay those fines and costs established by the applicable provisions of the Vehicle Code or any subsequent Act of Assembly which amends said Vehicle Code. Disposition of said fine or fines shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Vehicle Code.