A.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS
POLICE CHIEF
POLICE DEPARTMENT
POLICE OFFICER
Words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
ascribed in the Vehicle Code, 75 P.S. § 101 et seq. (1977),
as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania, unless the context clearly indicates a different
meaning.
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
The Chief of the Northwest Regional Police Department.
[Added 4-3-2006 by Ord. No. 167-2006]
The Northwest Regional Lancaster County Police Department
or any successor municipal or multimunicipal police department having
jurisdiction within the corporate boundaries of the Township.
[Added 4-3-2006 by Ord. No. 167-2006]
Any officer of the Northwest Regional Police Department.
[Added 4-3-2006 by Ord. No. 167-2006]
B.
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural, the plural
shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine.
All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent nature shall
be enacted as ordinances, as parts of ordinances, as amendments to
ordinances, or as amendments to this chapter.
The provisions of this Chapter 220, so far as they are the same as those of ordinances in force immediately prior to the adoption of this chapter, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and regulations and not as new enactments. The provisions of this chapter shall not affect any act done or liability incurred, nor shall they affect any suit or prosecution pending or to be instituted to enforce any right or penalty or to punish any offense under any such ordinances or regulations as aforesaid.
A.
The Chief of Police or Road Superintendent shall have the following
powers to regulate traffic and parking temporarily and in time of
emergency:
(1)
In the case of fire, flood, storm or other emergency, to establish
temporary traffic and/or parking regulations;
(2)
In the case of emergency or to facilitate public works, or in the
conduct of parades, processions or public events, to restrict or prohibit
traffic and/or parking in limited areas for periods of not more than
72 hours.
B.
Such temporary and emergency regulations shall be enforced by the Northwest Regional Police Department in the same manner as permanent regulations. Any person who shall operate or park a vehicle or tractor in violation of any such regulations, or who shall move, remove, destroy, injure or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made to give notice of any such regulation, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this Chapter 220 for a violation of such nature, and, in case of a violation for which no specific penalty is set forth in the law or elsewhere in this chapter, to a fine of not more than $25 together with costs of prosecution.
The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time by resolution,
designate places upon and along the highways in the Township of West
Donegal 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 such locations by proper
signs and markings. Such regulations, prohibitions and restrictions
shall be effective as is they had been specified in this chapter.
No person shall operate or park a vehicle or tractor 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 shall
violate any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof,
be subject to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this
chapter for a violation of such nature, and in case of a violation
for which no specific penalty is set forth in the law or elsewhere
in this chapter, to a fine of not more than $25 together with costs
of prosecution, provided the purpose of this section is to allow for
the test and experimental determination of the feasibility and desirability
of permanent changes in the ordinances of the Township relative to
traffic and parking.
[Amended 4-3-2006 by Ord. No. 167-2006]
Police officers are hereby given authority to direct traffic
on the highways of the Township and at intersections thereof and to
enforce all provisions of this chapter.
A.
The Northwest Regional Police Department and police officers are
hereby authorized to use all mechanical or electrical speed timing
devices for the determination of speed of a motor vehicle as are approved
or will be approved by the Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, including but not limited to E.S.P. and Vascar systems.
[Amended 4-3-2006 by Ord. No. 167-2006]
B.
This section authorizes the use of said devices upon all highways
within the Township be they Township, county or state highways, and
does also hereby elect to exercise all powers granted to local authorities
under the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 75 P.S.
§ 101 et seq. (1977), as hereafter amended, supplemented,
modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania.