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Borough of Jefferson Hills, PA
Allegheny County
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[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998; as amended by Ord. 688, 11/9/1998; by Ord. 699; 5/10/1999; by Ord. 709, 7/20/2000, § 1; and by Ord. 719, 6/11/2001, § 1]
1. 
Maximum speed limits are hereby established on all Borough streets, or portions of Borough streets, of 25 miles per hour, except for Lewis Run Road (across from Large VFD) and Wakefield Drive, which shall remain at a maximum speed limit of 15 miles per hour, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on Borough streets, or parts of Borough streets, in excess of such maximum speed limits, unless other maximum speed limits are designated for certain Borough streets by ordinance.
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
Maximum speed limits are established, as follows, on certain bridges and elevated structures, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any such bridge or elevated structure, at a higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that bridge or elevated structure:
Bridge or Elevated Structure
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following are declared to be hazardous grades, and, upon any such hazardous grade, no person shall drive a vehicle, having a gross weight in excess of that referred to for that grade, in the direction stated for that grade, at a speed in excess of that established in this section for that grade, and, if so stated for a particular grade, the driver of every such vehicle shall stop the vehicle before proceeding downhill:
Street
Between
Direction of Travel
Maximum Gross Weight
Maximum Speed Limit
Required to Stop Before Proceeding Downhill
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
A speed limit of 15 miles per hour is established on all streets and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated by the Borough, except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified, shall apply:
Park
Street
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
Beedle
Decker Street and Walton Road
15 MPH
Andrew Reilly Memorial
Wray Drive
15 MPH
Gill Hall
Gill Hall
15 MPH
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998; as amended by Ord. 707, 7/10/2000, § 1]
1. 
At the following locations, traffic signals as indicated below shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected), and traffic at those locations shall be directed by those signals:
Location
Type of Signal
Lewis Run Road (across From Payne Hill Road
Red light
Peters Creek Road (at Westinghouse)
Red light
Entrance to Ashland Oil (Walton Road)
Red light
Route 51 at Coal Valley
Red light
Route 51 at Old Clairton Road
Red light
2. 
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any traffic signal shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following are established as intersections where drivers of vehicles headed in the direction or directions indicated are prohibited from making a right turn (or a left turn from a one-way street into another one-way street) on a steady red signal:
Intersection
Vehicles Traveling On
Facing
Coal Valley Road and Route 51
Coal Valley Road
Eastbound
Lewis Run Road and Route 51
Lewis Run Road
Eastbound
Route 51 and Coal Valley Road
Route 51
Southbound
Route 51 and Peters Creek Road
Route 51
Northbound
Route 51 and Dick Corporation
Route 51
Southbound
2. 
Any driver of a vehicle who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following are established as one-way streets, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any one-way street other than in the direction established for traffic on that street:
Street
From
To
Direction of Travel
Lewis Run Road (behind Starlite Motel)
Genes Motel
State Route 51 North
Southbound
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, of the type indicated, traveling upon the first-named street at any of the following intersections, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, to make a left turn and/or a right turn into the second-named street, as indicated, at any time when such a turn is prohibited by this section:
Vehicles Traveling on
Direction of Travel
Not to Make Turn
Into
When
Type of Vehicle Applicable To
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon the first-named street at any of the following intersections, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, to make other than a right turn, at any time stated, both left turns and straight-across traffic being prohibited:
Vehicle Traveling On
Direction of Travel
Times
Not To Make Left Turn Into or Travel Straight Across
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon any of the following portions of streets, in the direction or directions indicated for that street, to make a U-turn:
Street
Portion
Direction of Travel
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following are established as no-passing zones, and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to overtake or pass another vehicle or to drive on the left side of the roadway in any no-passing zone:
Street
Direction of Travel
Between
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following highways are established as through highways, thus authorizing stop or yield signs to be erected facing traffic approaching every intersection with the through highway except for those intersections with traffic signals, or with exceptions or modifications as indicated below. Every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop or yield sign authorized by this section shall stop the vehicle or yield right-of-way as required by § 3323(b) or 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, as the case may be, and shall not proceed into or across the through highway until he has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law:
Highway
Between
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998; as amended by Ord. 708, 7/10/2000, § 1; by Ord. 735, 11/12/2002, § 1; and by Ord. 742, 12/30/2002, § 1]
1. 
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-212) are established as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the intersecting or through street) on the first-named street (the stop street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or stop street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall stop the vehicle as required by § 3323(b) of the Vehicle Code, and shall not proceed into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street until he has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law.
Stop Street
Intersection or Through Street
Direction of Travel
Aber Drive
Wray Large Road
Southbound
Aber Drive
Roberts Drive
Southbound
Aber Drive
Andrew Drive
Northbound
Acorn Drive
Hidden Oak Drive
Southbound
Alice Avenue
State Street
Eastbound
Alice Avenue
Third Street
Westbound
Andrew Drive
Aber Drive
Eastbound
Andrew Drive
Aber Drive
Westbound
Andrew Drive
State Route 885
Eastbound
Antler Drive
Fawn Drive
Westbound
Arch Street
Cochran Mill Road
Westbound
Baker Drive
State Route 885
Eastbound
Bambi Drive
Stilley Road
Northbound
Bambi Drive
Deer Park Drive West
Southbound
Beams Run Road
Gill Hall Road
Westbound
Beams Run Road
Rustic Woods Drive
Northbound and Southbound
Beams Run Road
Shady Timber Lane
Northbound and Southbound
Bedell Road
Gill Hall Road
Westbound
Bedell Road
Scheinbach Road
Eastbound
Bickerton Drive
Peterson Drive
Eastbound
Bickerton Drive
Peterson Drive
Westbound
Bickerton Drive
Loyal Drive
North and Southbound
Brickyard Road
State Route 51
Eastbound
Butternut Street
Old Clairton Road
Westbound
Camino Court
Tangelo Drive
Eastbound
Cassia Drive
Gill Hall Road
Westbound
Cassia Drive
Riomar Drive
Eastbound
Century Drive
State Route 51
Westbound
Chelsea Drive
Meadowfield Lane
Southbound
Cherrywood Drive
Ridge Road
Northbound
Circle Glen Drive
Pennsylvania Avenue
Westbound
Cochran Mill Road
Wallace Avenue
South
Collins Avenue
State Street
Eastbound
Dale Road
Ridge Road
Northbound
Dale Road
Calamity Hollow Road
Southbound
Dale Street
Stilley Road
Northbound
Decker Street
Fourth Street
Eastbound and Westbound
Decker Street
Third Street
Eastbound and Westbound
Decker Street
State Street
Eastbound
Deer Park Drive East
Antler Drive
Eastbound
Deer Park Drive East
Fawn Drive
Westbound
Deer Park Drive West
Fawn Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Elliot Road
Old Clairton Road
Westbound
Elliot Road
State Route 51
Eastbound
Farm Lane
Springhouse Drive
Northbound
Farm Lane
Waterman Road
Southbound
Fawn Drive
Deer Park Drive West
Northbound and Southbound
Fawn Drive
Deer Park Drive East
Northbound and Southbound
Fawn Drive
Stilley Road
Northbound
First Street (Patch)
Oak Road
Northbound
First Street (Wall Plan)
Wall Avenue
Southbound
Foster Road
Wall Road
Eastbound
Fourth Street (Floreffe)
Decker Street
Southbound
Frontier Drive
State Route 885
Westbound
Ganley Road
Ridge Road
Southbound
Gilmore Drive
Peterson Drive
Eastbound
Gilmore Drive
Oneida Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Gill Hall Road
Chamberlin Road
South
Glendale Drive
Hollywood Drive
Eastbound
Guthrie Lane
Calamity Hollow Road
Northbound
Hazelnut Street
Shellbark Street
Westbound
Hazelnut Street
Old Clairton Road
Eastbound
Heath Road
Gill Hall Road
Westbound
High Road
State Route 51
Southbound
High Road
Ridge Road
Northbound
High Road
Fern Hollow Road
Northbound and Southbound
Hilltop Street
High Road
Eastbound
Hillview Drive
Nielson Drive
Southbound
Hillview Drive
Cochran Mill Road
Northbound
Hogback Road
Scotia Hollow Road
Southbound
Hornbake Drive
Peterson Drive
Eastbound
Jones Street
State Street
Westbound
Jones Street
Route 837
Eastbound
Klein Road
Cochran Mill Road
Westbound
Klein Road
Gill Hall Road
Eastbound
Knight Road
Walton Road
Southbound
Knight Road
Ridge Road
Northbound
Larkspur Drive
Willem Drive
Southbound
Larkspur Drive
Ridge Road
Northbound
Lewis Run Road (Behind Starlite Motel)
State Route 51
Northbound
Lewis Run Road (Across from Large VFD)
State Route 51
Northbound and Southbound
Lewis Run Road (Across from Payn Hill Road)
Old Clairton Road
Southbound
Lincoln Road
Old Clairton Road
Westbound
Madison Avenue
State Route 837
Eastbound
Madison Avenue
State Street
Westbound
Marion Drive
Cherrywood Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Marion Drive
Larkspur Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Maryland Avenue
New York Avenue
Northbound
McElheny Road
Cochran Mill Road
Eastbound
McKinley Drive
Loyal Drive
Westbound
Meadow Lane
Pearson Road
Southbound
Meadow Lane
Springhouse Drive
Northbound
Meadowfield Lane
Wakefield Drive
Southbound
Meadowfield Lane
Wakefield Road
Southbound
New World Drive
Gill Hall Road
Eastbound
New World Drive
Randolph Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
New World Drive
Jefferson Ridge Drive
Westbound
New York Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
Northbound
Nielson Drive
Hillview Drive
Southbound
Nielson Drive
Cochran Mill Road
Northbound
Oak Entrance Drive
Wakefield Drive
Southbound
Oak Road
Old Clairton Road
Northbound
Oak Street
First Street
Eastbound
Oakwood Drive
Oakwood Court
Eastbound and Westbound
Oakwood Drive
Coal Valley Road
Southbound
Old Hickory Lane
Gill Hall Road
Eastbound
Oneida Drive
Worthington Avenue
Northbound
Orchard Court Drive
Valleyview Drive
Northbound
Orchard Court Drive
Springhouse Drive
Southbound
Park Street
State Street
Eastbound
Pearson Road (Gill Hall)
Waterman Road
Southbound
Pearson Road (Old Clairton Road)
Old Clairton Road
Eastbound
Pennsylvania Avenue
Calamity Hollow Road
Northbound
Pennsylvania Avenue
Riverview Drive
Southbound
Peters Creek Road
Cherry Street
Eastbound
Peterson Drive
Worthington Avenue
Northbound
Pleasant View Court
Springhouse Drive
Southbound
Practice Tee Drive
Old Clairton Road
Westbound
Rainbow Drive
Antler Drive
Southbound
Randolph Drive
New World Drive
Northbound and Southbound
Reedsdale Drive
Payne Hill Road
Northbound
Riomar Drive
Cassia Drive
Southbound
Riomar Drive
Tangelo Drive
Northbound
Riverview Drive
Calamity Hollow Road
Northbound
Roberts Drive
Aber Drive
Eastbound
Rustic Woods Drive
Beams Run Road
Eastbound
Samuels Drive
Payne Hill Road
Northbound
Scheinbach Road
Walton Road
Northbound
School Street
State Street
Eastbound
Sean Court
Gill Hall Road
Eastbound
Second Street (Floreffe)
Alice Avenue
Southbound
Second Street (Wall Plan)
Wall Avenue
Eastbound
Shady Timber Lane
Beams Run Road
Eastbound
Shellbark Street
Hazelnut Street
Northbound and Southbound
Shellbark Street
Vine Street
Northbound and Southbound
Short Street
Ridge Road
Southbound
Siler Drive
Ridge Road
Northbound
Silverdale Drive
Silver
Eastbound
Simpson Drive
Wray Large Road
Southbound
Snee Drive
Stilley Road
Northbound
Springhouse Drive
Valleyview Drive
Eastbound and Westbound (3-way stop)
State Street
Walton Road/Decker Street
Northbound
State Street
School Street
Southbound
State Street
Robinson Street (W.E.)
Northbound
State Street
Jones Street
Northbound
Steinbach Lane
Alice Avenue/Collins Avenue
Southbound
Steinbach Lane
Cochran Mill Road
Northbound
Stevens Ridge Drive
Towne Hall entrance
Westbound
Stilley Road
Bambi Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Stilley Road
Snee Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Stilley Road (Gill Hall)
Cochran Mill Road
Westbound
Stilley Road (Gill Hall)
Fawn Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Stilley Road (Gill Hall)
Gill Hall Road
Eastbound
Stilley Street (Tortorices Trailer Court)
State Street
Eastbound
Sunset Drive
State Route 885
Eastbound
Sycamore Drive
State Route 51
Eastbound
Taber Drive
Old Clairton Road
Eastbound
Taber Drive
Redcliffe Drive
Eastbound
Tangelo Drive
Upper Gill Hall
Westbound
Tangelo Drive
Lower Gill Hall
Westbound
Tangelo Drive
Camino Court Drive
Eastbound
Third Street (Floreffe)
Collins Avenue
Southbound
Third Street (Floreffe)
Decker Street
Northbound and Southbound
Thomas Jefferson Drive
Stilley Road
Southbound
Timber Lane
Roberts Drive
Southbound
Towne Hall Entrance
Old Clairton Road
Eastbound
Valleyview Drive
Orchard Court Drive
Eastbound
Valleyview Drive
Springhouse Drive
Westbound
Vine Street (Large Heights Plan)
Shellbark Street
Eastbound
Wakefield Drive
Old Clairton Road
Eastbound
Wakefield Road
Meadowfield Lane
Eastbound and Westbound
Wall Road
State Route 885
Westbound
Wall Avenue
Wall Road
Southbound
Wallace Road
Cochran Mill Road
Eastbound
Wanda Lane
Towne Hall Entrance
Eastbound
Waterman Road (East)
Farm Lane
Eastbound and Westbound
Waterman Road (East)
Gill Hall Road
Westbound
Waterman Road (West)
Cochran Mill Road
Westbound
Waterman Road (West)
Gill Hall Road
Eastbound
West Bruceton Road
Cochran Mill Road
Westbound
Willem Drive
Cherrywood Drive
Eastbound and Westbound
Wilson Road
Cochran Mill Road
Eastbound
Wray Drive
885 Park Entrance
Southbound
Wray Drive
Wray Large Road
Northbound
Wray Large Road
Lewis Run Road
Westbound
Wray Large Road
State Route 885
Eastbound
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-212) are established as yield intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the through street) on the first-named street (the yield street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or yield street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall slow down or stop the vehicle as required by § 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.
Yield Street
Through Street
Direction of Travel
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
No motor vehicle including a motorcycle, pedalcycle or minibike shall be operated on any property owned by the Borough or any other public agency or instrumentality within the Borough without the permission of the property owner and a permit from the Chief of Police of the Borough.
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following locations are designated as rotary traffic islands, and every vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only to the right of the island:
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who drives a vehicle otherwise than to the right of any rotary traffic island shall be guilty of a violation of this section, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998; as amended by Ord. 741, 12/30/2002, § 1]
1. 
The following areas upon the streets in the Borough of Jefferson Hills are established as play highways:
Street
Between
Days
Hours
(Reserved)
2. 
The Chief of Police is authorized to designate as play highways, whenever he deems that action advisable, and for whatever period of time directed by him, any part of any street in the Borough, where sledding and coasting, shall be permitted. That play highway shall be set apart for the purpose under the direction of the Chief of Police.
3. 
No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon any play highway at any time when that street shall be designated as a play highway, except in case of emergency, with special permission of the Chief of Police or of the police officer in charge, who shall first clear that play highway of all persons using it for the purpose for which it was set aside. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 685, 5/11/1998]
1. 
The following roads and streets within the Borough are designated as special snowmobile roads:
Street or Road
Between
Used by Snow-mobiles Only When Closed to Vehicular Traffic
Shared With Vehicular Traffic
(Reserved)
2. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile on any highway, street or road in the Borough other than as provided above; provided nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from operating a snowmobile on any other street in the Borough:
A. 
As authorized by § 7721 of the Vehicle Code for emergency and bridge crossings and for direct crossing of streets or two-lane highways; or
B. 
For special snowmobile events where authorized in advance and the street is blocked off as provided in § 7723 of the Vehicle Code. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in § 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.