This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Pocono
Township Snow Emergency Ordinance."
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PARKING
The halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except
momentarily for the purposes of, and while actually engaged in, loading
or unloading property or passengers. As used herein, however, the
term shall not include a police, Fire Department or rescue vehicle,
ambulance or Township vehicle on official Township business.
PERSON
Includes any natural person, partnership, firm, association,
corporation, limited liability company, or other legal entity.
PUBLIC ROAD
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way,
street, lane, alley, court, or public square owned or maintained by
Pocono Township which is open to the use of the public for purposes
of vehicular travel. This shall include the public road cartway, shoulder
and right-of-way.
SNOW EMERGENCY
A snowfall of a depth of one inch or more, or any accumulation
of hail, sleet, freezing rain or ice.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a public road.
No person shall park, leave unattended or abandon any vehicle
on any public road within Pocono Township during a snow emergency
and until the snow has stopped falling; the hail, sleet, freezing
rain or ice has stopped accumulating; and the snow and any accumulated
hail, sleet, freezing rain or ice has been completely plowed from
the full width of the cartway. In the event a vehicle is left unattended and the operator who
left the vehicle unattended is no longer at the scene and is unknown,
responsibility for compliance with this article shall belong to the
registered owner of the motor vehicle, or, in the case of a partnership,
firm, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other
legal entity, the natural person to whom the vehicle is assigned or
by whom it is regularly driven.