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 Supervisors may, from time to time, designate places
upon and along 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. Those regulations, prohibitions
and restrictions shall have the same effect as if 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 that
nature and, in case of a violation for which no specific penalty is
set out in the law or elsewhere in this chapter, to a fine of $25
and costs.
The police officers, auxiliary police officers, school crossing
guards and fire police officers of the Township and Township fire
companies shall have 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.
This chapter shall be enforced by the police officers and special
officers of Upper Merion Township.
It shall be lawful for the Police Department to use such electronic,
electrical and mechanical speed-timing devices as permitted by the
Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code for the purpose of timing and determining
the speed of motor vehicles traveling on the highways, streets and
alleys of the Township. Said timing devices shall be of a type and
manufacturer which is from time to time approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation.