GENERAL REFERENCES
Parking of construction vehicles — See Part
Twelve, Title Four, Appendix A, Sec. IV.
[Ord. No. 277,
passed 11-10-1994]
Council shall prepare snow and weather emergency plans for use
within the Township and inform the public of the details of such plans.
Such plans may include, but shall not be limited to, provisions for
warning motorists and pedestrians; prohibiting parking on designated
streets or parts thereof; requiring chains or snow tires on vehicles
operating on designated streets; removing and storing vehicles that
are parked on designated streets; early dismissal of Township employees
or excusing Township employees under the Council's jurisdiction
from reporting for duty; posting guidance and warning signs and markings
on designated streets; and removal of snow, sleet, hail and ice.
[Ord. No. 277,
passed 11-10-1994]
All Township roads and streets north of Route 1 By-Pass, all
cul-de-sacs and the following Township roads and streets are hereby
designated as snow emergency streets and shall be posted as such:
|
Name of Street
|
Side(s)
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
|
Autumn Lane
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Azalea Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Bent Road
|
Both
|
Upper Providence
|
|
Township portion
| ||
|
Braves Trail
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Calabrese Drive
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Carlton Place
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Crum Creek Road
|
Both
|
200 Block
|
|
Cherry Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Collins Avenue
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Dale Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Dash Avenue
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Dash Avenue (off Collins)
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Dogwood Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Dora Drive
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Dyanna Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Eastwood Road
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Evans Boulevard
|
South
|
Entire length
|
|
Farnum Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
First Avenue
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Gayley Street
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Gilbert Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Greenhill Road
|
South
|
Ridge Road to State Road
|
|
Heather Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Highland Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Hillendale Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Hilltop Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Idlewild Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
South Jackson Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Kirk Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Letitia Lane
|
Inside circle
|
Entire length
|
|
West Lincoln Street
|
North
|
Park Avenue to Orange Street
|
|
Mancil Road
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Maple Avenue
|
South
|
Entire length
|
|
Meadowbrook Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Media Station Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Meetinghouse Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Oak Crest Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Oakview Drive
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Olive Street
|
East
|
Lincoln Street to Township line
|
|
Old State Road
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
North Orange Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Overhill Circle
|
Inside
|
Entire length
|
|
North Overhill Road
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
South Overhill Road
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Painter Street
|
South
|
Entire length
|
|
Park Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Pickering Lane
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Preston Road
|
South
|
Entire length
|
|
Radnor Street
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Ridge Road
|
South
|
Entire length
|
|
South Ridley Creek
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Roberts Road
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Robin Road
|
East
|
Entire length
|
|
Rose Hill Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Rosemary Circle
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Rosemary Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Sandy Bank Road
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
School Lane
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Second Street
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Shadeland Avenue
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Shady Hill Road
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
South Avenue
|
Both
|
Lincoln Street to Township line
|
|
Spring Street
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Spring Hollow Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
State Road
|
Both
|
Bobbin Mill Road to Crum Creek Road
|
|
Strawberry Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Summer Street
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Summit Road
|
South
|
Entire length
|
|
Sycamore Road
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Twyckenham Road
|
Both
|
Upper Providence Township portion
|
|
Valley View Road
|
North & West
|
Entire length
|
|
Winter Street
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Willowbrook Lane
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Woodcliffe Avenue
|
West
|
Entire length
|
|
Wooded Way
|
Both
|
Entire length
|
|
Woodview Lane
|
North
|
Entire length
|
|
Woodland Avenue
|
South
|
Entire length
|
[Ord. No. 277,
passed 11-10-1994]
(a)
Declaration of snow emergency. A snow emergency shall be declared
whenever the National Weather Service advises or warns of an accumulation
of ice, sleet, hail or snow at, or in excess of, two inches in the
Delaware Valley, and precipitation actually begins.
(b)
Parking prohibited. On any street or portion thereof designated as
a snow emergency street and so marked by appropriate signs, no person
shall, while the snow parking and traffic emergency is in effect,
park or permit any vehicle to remain parked on any such street or
portion thereof so marked.
(c)
Obstruction of traffic. Whenever a snow emergency is in effect, it
shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or impede traffic on
any street designated and posted as a snow emergency street.
(d)
Depositing snow, etc., in streets. Whenever a snow parking and traffic
emergency is in effect, it shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct
or impede traffic or hinder snow removal or cindering operations by
shoveling, throwing or in any manner placing snow, sleet, hail or
ice into any street.
[Ord. No. 277,
passed 11-10-1994]
Whenever any vehicle shall be found on any Township street in
such a manner as to obstruct or impede traffic or hinder snow removal
or cindering operations when a snow parking and traffic emergency
is in effect, the vehicle may be removed at the owner's expense
to an area designated by Council. Persons designated by Council to
remove such vehicles shall notify the Chief of Police immediately
following such removal. Such authorized persons shall give the type
of vehicle, the license tag number, the place of removal, the time
of removal, the cause of removal, the place to which the vehicle has
been removed and such other information as required. The Chief of
Police shall attempt to notify the owner of such vehicle, as soon
as it is reasonably possible, of the removal and location of the vehicle.
[Ord. No. 277,
passed 11-10-1994]
Certain vehicles are excepted from the provisions of this chapter
as follows:
(a)
Commercial vehicles making emergency deliveries.
(b)
Emergency vehicles.
(c)
Ambulances and vehicles carrying sick or injured persons.
(d)
Vehicles engaged in snow plowing or removal or cindering operations
on Township streets.
(e)
Physicians responding to sick calls.
(f)
Vehicles carrying United States mail.
(g)
Hearses and motor vehicles in funeral processions.
[Ord. No. 277,
passed 11-10-1994]
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of the provisions
of this chapter shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$300, together with costs of prosecution.
