The Borough Council of the Borough of Mount Union hereby finds
and declares that the provisions of this chapter are enacted to establish
regulations regarding the use, operation, and control of motor scooters,
skates, skateboards and motorized vehicles of a recreational type,
excluding passenger and commercial vehicles, on the roadways, alleys,
sidewalks, public parks, paths, public places, or other public or
private property within the Borough of Mount Union.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ROADWAY
The portion of the highway, street, or alley designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, excluding sidewalks, berms,
and shoulders.
SIDEWALK
That portion of the highway, street, or alley between the
curblines or the lateral lines of the roadway and the adjacent property
lines designed or ordinarily intended for use by pedestrians.
SKATEBOARD
A single platform mounted on wheels, which is propelled solely
by human power and which has no mechanisms or other device with which
to steer or to control the movement or the direction of the platform.
VEHICLE
Every device, excluding skateboards, wagons, wheelchairs,
unicycles, pushcarts, tricycles, and other children's toys, in,
upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported
or drawn upon a roadway or sidewalk.
No parent, guardian, adult, or other person shall permit a person
under the age of 18 years to operate skates, a skateboard or any other
motorized vehicle of a recreational type regulated hereunder on any
sidewalk, park, path, roadway, public alley, or any other public or
private property in the Borough of Mount Union in violation of the
Borough Code or of any law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Every person convicted of a violation of any provisions of this chapter, including those persons convicted under §
272-4 above, shall be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $300, and the costs of prosecution, and shall be ordered to pay restitution should any damage or injury have resulted from the commission of the act giving rise to the violation of this chapter.