Borough of Green Tree, PA Part 2 Dead-End Streets

[Adopted 6-4-1962 by Ord. No. 650 (Ch. 442 of the 1982 Code)]

Article II Posting Required; Enforcement

§ 325-3 Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

BOROUGH DEAD-END STREET

A dead-end street wholly in the Borough and any other dead-end street having a dead end within the Borough, the maintenance of a portion of which is the responsibility of the Borough.

DEAD END

Any place where a street has a terminus at a place other than an intersection of such street with another street.

DEAD-END STREET

A street having either or both of its termini at a place other than an intersection of such street with another street.

PERSON

A natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation

STREET

A street, highway, road, lane, drive, alley or other way lawfully opened for public use or travel and the maintenance of which the Borough or other governmental authorities are responsible.

§ 325-4 Signs.

All Borough dead-end streets shall at all times be conspicuously posted with appropriate signs giving notice that they are dead-end streets, at the points where they join other streets in the Borough.

§ 325-5 Protective barriers required.

Suitable and adequate guardrails, guard posts or other protective barriers, bearing appropriate warning markings or signs, shall be erected or installed and maintained at the dead end of each Borough dead-end street along the end of the cartway thereof.

§ 325-6 Conformity of barriers with commonwealth regulations.

A sign or marking posted or placed on a guardrail, guard post or other protective barrier, pursuant to § 325-5, shall at all times conform to such regulations of the State Department of Transportation with respect to official traffic signs, signals and markings as may be applicable thereto.

§ 325-7 Enforcement; violations and penalties.

A. The Mayor and other proper officers and employees of the Borough are hereby authorized and directed to carry out the provisions of this article with all due dispatch, so that the safety and welfare of the traveling public and of the inhabitants of the Borough may be properly safeguarded as soon as possible.

B. See Part 3, Article V of this chapter for penalty provisions.

§ 325-8 Damaging of signs, barriers.

A. No person shall deface, damage, knock down, remove, obstruct or interfere with a sign or marking posted or placed on a guardrail, guard post or other protective barrier pursuant to § 325-5.

B. No person shall damage, knock down, remove, obstruct or interfere with a guardrail, guard post or other protective barrier erected or installed pursuant to § 325-5.

C. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, § 1-2, of the Code.