A general public nuisance and threat to the public safety results
from the repetitive, unnecessary driving of motor vehicles, also known
as cruising, in designated areas of the Borough of Tyrone. The purpose
of this article is to reduce the noise of loud radios and screeching
tires, air pollution and congestion resulting from cruising and to
insure access for safety vehicles to and through said designated areas
by restricting repetitive driving of motor vehicles in said designated
areas.
For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
CRUISING
Driving a motor vehicle on a street past a traffic control
point, designated by a police officer, in a designated area three
or more times within any one-hour period from 8:00 p.m. until 4:00
a.m., or six or more times within any three-hour period from 8:00
p.m. to 4:00 a.m., prevailing time. Passing the control point a third
or sixth time, as set forth herein, shall constitute cruising and,
therefore, constitute a violation of this article.
DESIGNATED AREAS
The following areas of the Borough of Tyrone:
A.
Logan Avenue bounded by Thirteenth Street and Fourteenth Street.
B.
Thirteenth Street bounded by Logan Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue.
C.
Tenth Street from Lincoln Avenue to Pennsylvania Avenue.
D.
Pennsylvania Avenue from Fourteenth Street to the railroad crossing
near the IGA Market.
E.
Clay Avenue from Fifteenth Street to Third Street.
F.
Fifteenth Street from Lincoln Avenue to Clay Avenue.
G.
Lincoln Avenue from Fourteenth Street to Tenth Street.
H.
Washington Avenue from Tenth Street to Third Street.
I.
Park Avenue from Ninth Street to Third Street.
J.
Columbia Avenue from Fifteenth Street to Twentieth Street.
K.
Such other areas as may be clearly marked by the Tyrone Borough
Police Department.
TRAFFIC CONTROL POINT
A clearly identified reference point on a street in the designated
areas selected by a police officer for the purpose of enforcing this
article.
No person shall engage in unnecessary repetitive driving, also
known for purposes of this article as "cruising." For purposes of
this article, the person having control and/or ownership of a motor
vehicle shall be considered the person cruising, without regard as
to whether that person was actually driving the motor vehicle each
time it passed the traffic control point. Having control or ownership
of a motor vehicle means either the owner of the vehicle, as stated
on the vehicle registration, if said owner is present in the vehicle
at the time of the violation, or if the owner is not present in the
vehicle, the person operating the vehicle at the time of the violation
of this article.
This article shall not apply to any municipal, emergency, police,
fire, ambulance or other governmental vehicle when the same is being
operated in an official capacity. In addition, this article shall
not apply to any duly licensed public transportation vehicle.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than
$100 and not more than $1,000 plus the cost of prosecution, and/or
in default of payment of the fine be sentenced to imprisonment for
a term not to exceed 30 days. Each violation of this article shall
constitute a separate and distinct offense which shall be subject
to the aforesaid penalties.