[Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011; as amended by Ord. 2012-05, 9/6/2012,
§ 1]
1.
Maximum speed limits are established on portions of specified streets,
as follows, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle
on any part of a street where a maximum speed limit applies at a higher
speed than the maximum prescribed for that part of the street:
|
Street
|
Between
|
Maximum Speed Limit
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Elbow Lane
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Fish Hatchery Road
|
East Texas Road and the Township Boundary Line with Salisbury
Township
|
25 mph
| |
|
Lower Macungie Road
|
Bogie Avenue to signalized entrance to the Daytimers, Inc.,
parking lot in East Texas
|
35 mph
| |
|
Mill Creek Road
|
Spring Creek Road and Sauerkraut Lane
|
25 mph
| |
|
Millrace Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Riverbend Road
|
Between Fish Hatchery Road and Little Spur
|
25 mph
| |
|
Sauerkraut Lane
|
Millcreek Road to Pembroke Drive
|
25 mph
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs. 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. 2011-12, 10/6/2011]
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 Township,
as follows:
|
Park
| |
|---|---|
|
Ancient Oaks South
| |
|
Beaumont at Brookside
| |
|
Brookfield
| |
|
Brookside Farms
| |
|
Camp Olympic
| |
|
Campus
| |
|
Church Lane
| |
|
Corrado Homes
| |
|
Creamery
| |
|
Cross Timbers
| |
|
Danfield
| |
|
E. Texas
| |
|
Farmington Hills Others
| |
|
Heritage Heights
| |
|
Hidden Valley
| |
|
Hills at Lockridge
| |
|
Lehigh Crossings
| |
|
Maplewood Park
| |
|
Prater
| |
|
Quarry
| |
|
Rodale
| |
|
Shepherd Hills
| |
|
Spring Creek Estates
| |
|
Spring Ridge Crossing
| |
|
Watermill
| |
|
Wescosville
| |
|
Wild Cherry
| |
|
Winding Brook
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs. 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. 2011-12, 10/6/2011; amended by Ord. No. 2019-01, 1/3/2019]
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
|
|---|
|
Cedar Crest Boulevard and Minesite Road
|
|
Hamilton Boulevard and Hamilton Crossings Private Driveways
(between North Krocks
|
|
Road and Brookside Road)
|
|
Hamilton Boulevard and North Krocks Road/Private Driveway
|
|
Hamilton Boulevard and Shepherd Lane/Private Driveway
|
|
Hamilton Boulevard and Commercial Center Drive (North/South)
|
|
Hamilton Boulevard and South Krocks Road/Krocks Court
|
|
Hamilton Boulevard and Mill Creek Road
|
|
North Krocks Road and Hamilton Crossings Private Driveway
|
|
Lower Macungie Road and South Krocks Road and Private Driveways
|
|
Lower Macungie Road and East Texas Road/Willow Lane
|
|
Lower Macungie Road and Wild Cherry Lane
|
|
Route 100 and Gehman Road/Private Driveway
|
|
Route 100 and Schoeneck Road
|
|
Sauerkraut Lane and Willow Lane
|
|
Spring Creek Road and Congdon Hill Drive/Sauerkraut Lane
|
|
Spring Creek Road and Mertztown Road
|
|
Route 222 By-Pass and North Krocks Road
|
|
Route 222 By-Pass and Cedarbrook Road/Kressler Road
|
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any traffic
signal, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
costs.
[Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011]
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
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011]
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
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Antique Lane
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
North
|
Left
|
Mill Creek Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 30 feet
|
|
Chestnut Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
South
|
Right
|
Mountain Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 40 feet
|
|
East Texas Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
North
|
Right
|
Riverbend Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 25 feet
|
|
East Texas Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
South
|
Left
|
Fish Hatchery Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 25 feet
|
|
Fish Hatchery Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
West
|
Right
|
East Texas Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 25 feet
|
|
Kressler Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
South
|
Right
|
East Texas Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 30 feet
|
|
Liberty
|
East
|
Left
|
Brookside
|
School hours
|
All vehicles
|
|
Quarry Road
[Added by Ord. 2016-13, 7/21/2016] |
North
|
Left
|
Route 100
|
All times
|
Trucks over 48 feet
|
|
Quarry Road
[Added by Ord. 2016-13, 7/21/2016] |
North
|
Right
|
Route 100
|
All times
|
Trucks over 48 feet
|
|
Riverbend Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
North
|
Left
|
East Texas Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 25 feet
|
|
Riverbend Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
North
|
Right
|
Fish Hatchery Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 25 feet
|
|
Route 100
[Added by Ord. 2016-13, 7/21/2016] |
North
|
Left
|
Quarry Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 48 feet
|
|
Route 100
[Added by Ord. 2016-13, 7/21/2016] |
South
|
Right
|
Quarry Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 48 feet
|
|
Schoeneck Road
[Added by Ord. 2016-07, 4/21/2016] |
North
|
Left
|
Route 100
|
All times
|
Trucks over 48 feet
|
|
Schoeneck Road
[Added by Ord. 2016-07, 4/21/2016] |
North
|
Right
|
Route 100
|
All times
|
Trucks over 48 feet
|
|
Spring Creek Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-12, 9/5/2019] |
East
|
Right
|
Mill Creek Road
|
All times
|
Trucks over 30 feet
|
|
Spring Creek
|
North
|
Left
|
Lower Macungie Road
|
All times
|
All vehicles
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011; as amended by Ord. 2012-12, 12/6/2012,
Art. I]
1.
The following intersections 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 of the Vehicle Code, 75
Pa.C.S.A. §§ 3323(b), 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
|
Intersecting or Through Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
|---|---|---|
|
Aster Road (Township Road No. 609)
|
Foxglove Place
|
North and south
|
|
Birch Street
|
Butternut Lane
|
West
|
|
Church Lane Bridge
|
Trexlertown Road and Lower Macungie Road spanning Norfolk South
Railroad
|
All
|
|
East Texas Road (Township Road No. T-471)
|
Elbow Lane (Township Road No 506) and Maplewood Lane
|
All
|
|
East Texas Road (Township Road No. T-506)
|
Kressler Road (Township Road No. T-479)
|
East
|
|
Golf Circle
[Added Ord. No. 2021-03, 6/17/2021] |
Golf Circle
|
West
|
|
Gun Club Road (Township Road No. T-468
|
All
| |
|
Hillview Road/Drive
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-13, 10/3/2019] |
Kressler Road
|
All
|
|
Krocks Road (Township Road No. T-498B)
|
Country Club Road (Township Road No. T-615B)
|
North and south
|
|
Orchard Road
[Added by Ord. No. 2021-03, 6/17/2021] |
Scenic View Drive
|
North
|
|
Orchid Place
[Added by Ord. 2014-03, 1/16/2014] |
Riverbend Road
|
All
|
|
Riverbend Road
[Added by Ord. 2014-03, 1/16/2014] |
Orchid Place
|
All
|
|
Sauerkraut Lane
|
Mill Creek Road
|
All
|
|
Sauerkraut Lane
|
Willow Lane
|
All
|
|
Sauerkraut Lane (Township Road No. 475)
|
Macungie Road (Township Road No. 507)
|
All
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011]
1.
The following intersections 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 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 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, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011]
1.
No motor vehicle including a motorcycle, pedalcycle or minibike shall
be operated on any property owned by the Township or any other public
agency or instrumentality within the Township without the permission
of the property owner and a permit from the Township.
2.
Any person who violates an provision of this section, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2016-11, 5/19/2016]
1.
Findings. The Board of Commissioners of the Township of Lower Macungie
finds as a fact that the operation of an engine brake retarder on
a gasoline-powered or diesel-powered motor vehicle upon certain streets
within the Township, as more specifically set forth herein, creates
excessive noise through the use of said engine brake retarder, thereby
adversely affecting the public health, safety and welfare of the residents
of the Township of Lower Macungie Township.
2.
Prohibitions. No gasoline-powered or diesel-powered motor vehicles shall be operated on the streets, roads, alleys or highways listed below in Subsection 3 within the Township of Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, utilizing, in said operation, an engine brake retarder.
3.
Streets. The streets subject to this prohibition shall be as follows:
A.
All of Route 100 northbound falling within the Lower Macungie Township
boundaries.
B.
All of Route 100 southbound falling within the Lower Macungie Township
boundaries.
C.
Trexlertown Road, between Spring Creek Road and the Upper Macungie
Township Municipal Line.
[Added by Ord. 2017-06, 4/6/2017]
D.
Spring Creek Road, between Trexlertown Road and Lower Macungie Road.
[Added by Ord. 2017-06, 4/6/2017]
4.
Emergency Situations. This section shall not apply to emergency driving
situations requiring the utilization of an engine brake retarder to
protect the safety and property of the residents of Lower Macungie
Township, other motor vehicle operators, pedestrians, and the operator
and passengers of the motor vehicle involved in said emergency situation.
The deployment of such emergency braking shall in no way be an excuse
for violating the Motor Vehicle Code.
5.
Penalty. Any person, firm, corporation or organization violating
any of the provisions of this section shall, upon summary conviction
before a District Magistrate having jurisdiction, be sentenced to
pay a fine of not less than $100 or more than $300, and costs of prosecution,
and may be sentenced to undergo imprisonment in Lehigh County Prison
for a period of time as may permitted by law.
