[Ord. 496, 12/1/2014, § 1]
Full chains, strap chains or other types of chains so mounted
as to give motor vehicles traction in snow.
Any precipitation depositing any accumulation on the streets
of West Lebanon Township, including snow, sleet, hail, ice or freezing
rain.
A state, declared as herein described, under which highway
conditions are hazardous and dangerous to vehicular and pedestrian
traffic.
All streets within West Lebanon Township so designated and
marked as hereinafter set forth.
Tires having treads designated for use in mud or snow and
being in such condition as to serve the purpose for which they are
designated.
All motor vehicles using West Lebanon Township streets, including
all public and private transportation conveyances, trucks and other
powered vehicles.
[Ord. 496, 12/1/2014, § 2]
The West Lebanon Township Board of Commissioners shall designate,
by resolution, streets which are heavily traveled and which are necessary
thoroughfares for the movement of vehicular traffic through the Township
as "snow emergency routes." Such designation shall take into consideration
state highway routes, fire apparatus emergency routes and other commonly
traveled streets. Each such route shall be posted with suitable signs
or markers bearing the words "snow route" or "snow emergency route."
The Board of Commissioners may restrict parking on such streets. A
map of such routes shall be filed in the West Lebanon Township Building
and copies thereof shall be made available for public examination.
The Board of Commissioners may change said map from time to time,
copies of such changes being entered as aforesaid.
[Ord. 496, 12/1/2014, § 3]
The President of the Board of Commissioners, or in his/her absence,
the West Lebanon Township Commissioner in charge of the Highway Department,
is hereby authorized to declare an emergency to exist when the actual
or expected precipitation of snow causes or is anticipated to cause
serious traffic congestion and hazardous or dangerous highway conditions
for vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Such snow emergency shall continue
in force until the President of the Board of Commissioners, or in
his/her absence, the West Lebanon Township Commissioner in charge
of the Highway Department, shall declare the emergency no longer exists.
[Ord. 496, 12/1/2014, § 4; as amended by Ord. 501,
12/7/2015]
1.
Any person who operates a vehicle without chains or snow tires upon
any street designated as a snow emergency route and such vehicle becomes
stalled or incapable of moving under its own power, or any person
who leaves such a vehicle unattended, shall be in violation of this
Part and subject to the penalties set forth herein.
2.
Any vehicle parked, stalled, incapable of moving under its own power
or left unattended upon any snow emergency route may be removed or
towed away to any other location by persons authorized by the Board
of Commissioners to do so. The cost of removal and towing any such
vehicle may be assessed by the Township against the owner thereof;
and if the owner thereof fails to pay the cost of towing and removal,
the Township may file a municipal lien under the Municipal Lien Act
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 53 P.S. § 7101 et seq.
[Ord. 496, 12/1/2014, § 5]
Upon the declaration that a snow emergency no longer exists,
the Township shall institute a program of clearing cartways of snow
on all other Township streets not designated as snow emergency routes.
By appropriate notice given by the Township, the owners and operators
of all vehicles shall be instructed in a schedule of snow removal
from cartways.
[Ord. 496, 12/1/2014, § 6; as amended by Ord. 501,
12/7/2015]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a
fine from $100 to $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of
said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days.
Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
