This Part 3 shall apply to the operator of any vehicle publicly
or privately owned or used. No such operator shall violate any of
the provisions of this Part 3 except as otherwise permitted in this
Part 3.
The provisions of this Part 3 regulating the movement, parking and standing of vehicles shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in § 325-11, while the driver of such a vehicle is operating the same in an emergency in the necessary performance of his or her duties. This exemption shall not, however, protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequence of a reckless disregard of the safety of others.
[Amended 2-7-1966 by Ord. No. 730]
As used in this Part 3, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Vehicles of the Volunteer Fire Department, police vehicles
and such other emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public
service corporations as are authorized by the Mayor, and ambulances.
A motor vehicle equipped to carry seven or more persons and
engaged as a common carrier in the transportation of persons in interstate
and/or intrastate business.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation of curb and property lines at intersections, or any other
portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing by
lines or other markings on the surface.
The area embraced within the prolongation of the lateral
curblines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two or more
streets or highways which join one another at an angle, whether or
not one such street or highway crosses the other.
A vehicle, as defined in this section, which is self-propelled.
The standing of a vehicle, except a Police Department or
Volunteer Fire Department vehicle or ambulance, whether occupied or
not, upon a highway other than temporarily for the purpose of, and
while actually engaged in, loading or unloading, or in obedience to
traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
Any person who is afoot.
A road or driveway not open to the use of the public for
purposes of vehicular travel.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly
established curblines or that part devoted to vehicular traffic.[1]
That area or space officially set apart within the roadway
for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is
so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible
at all times while set apart as a safety zone.
That portion of a street between the curblines and the adjacent
property lines or that part devoted to pedestrian travel.
Every way or place open to the use of the public as a matter
of right for the purpose of travel. "Street" or "highway" shall not
be deemed to include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by a
private person, corporation, college, university or other institution.
A licensed public vehicle for hire, designed and constructed
to seat not more than seven persons and operating as a common carrier
on call or demand.
Applies to hours regulating parking and means eastern standard
time or daylight saving time, whichever may be in current use in the
Borough.
Any device using colored lights, sounds or works, or any
combination thereof, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
A device in, upon or by which any person or property is or
may be transported or drawn upon a public highway.
Title 75, Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, § 101
et seq., as amended.[2]
