Whenever a space is marked off on any street for the parking of an individual vehicle, every vehicle parked there shall be parked wholly within the lines bounding that space, and it shall be a violation of this article for any person to park a vehicle otherwise.
[Amended 2-5-1979 by Ord. No. 2-1979; 10-1-1984 by Ord. No. 4-1984; 10-1-1984 by Ord. No. 5-1984; 9-8-1987 by Ord. No. 5-1987; 10-6-1987 by Ord. No. 8-1987; 1-10-1989 by Ord. No. 3-1989; 8-4-1992 by Ord. No. 4-1992]
Parking shall be prohibited at all times in the following locations:
Street
Side
Portion
Adams Avenue
South
Between Franklin Avenue and Jackson Avenue
Bryant Street
North
Between Hancock Avenue and Wallace Street
Bryant Street
North
Between Poe Street and Hancock Avenue
Columbia Avenue
East
In front of entrance to Salvation Army in 100 Block
Cooper Street
East
Between 29th Street and Bryant Street
Custer Avenue
Both
Between Hancock Avenue and Washington Avenue
Custer Avenue
North
Between Jackson Avenue and Lincoln Avenue
Custer Avenue
North
In front of entrance to First United Methodist Church in 100 Block
Custer Avenue
South
Between Jackson Avenue and a point 112 feet east
Eighteenth Street
South
Entire extent
Eleventh Alley
Both
Between Sumner Avenue and Sixth Street
Emerson Street
Adjacent to property of the Vandergrift Fire Company
Emerson Street
North
From Hancock Avenue to the eastern terminus of Emerson Street
Emerson Street
South
In front of the Free Methodist Church in the 300 Block
Farragut Avenue
Both
Between Sherman Avenue and the bridge over the Kiskiminetas River
Farragut Avenue
West
Between the north line of Eleventh Alley and a point 120 feet north
Fifteenth Street
North
Between Hancock Avenue and Franklin Avenue
Forty-Fifth Street
Both
Between Walnut Street and Sycamore Street
Forty-Fourth Street
North
Between Linden Street and a point 96 feet west
Forty-Fourth Street
South
Between Linden Street and a point 101 feet west
Forty-Second Street
Both
Between Linden Street and a point 100 feet west
Forty-Third Street
Both
Between Linden Street and a point 100 feet west
Franklin Avenue
Both
Between Madison Avenue and East Adams Avenue
Franklin Avenue
Both
Between Tenth Alley and Fifteenth Street
Franklin Avenue
East
Between Walnut Street and Madison Avenue
Franklin Avenue
East
In front of entrance to St. Gertrude Catholic Church in the 300 Block
Franklin Avenue
East
In front of entrance to Trinity United Presbyterian Church in the 200 Block
Franklin Avenue
East
In front of entrance to United Church of Christ in the 300 Block
Franklin Avenue
West
Between Eleventh Alley and Tenth Alley
Franklin Avenue
West
Between Sherman Avenue and Vandergrift Lane
Franklin Avenue
West
In front of the First Baptist Church in the 300 Block
Grant Avenue
North
Between Columbia Avenue and Franklin Avenue
Hamilton Avenue
East
Between Sherman Avenue and Franklin Avenue
Hamilton Avenue
West
Between the north line of Sixth Street and a point 60 feet north
Hancock Avenue
Both
Between Custer Avenue and Adams Avenue
Hancock Avenue
East
Between Adams Avenue and south Borough line
Hancock Avenue
West
Between Walnut Street and Longfellow Street
Harrison Avenue
East
From Adams Avenue along property of the Kiski Area School District
Harrison Avenue
South
Between the property of the Kiski Area School District and Franklin Avenue
Hawthorne Street
East
Between 26th Street and Longfellow Street
Hawthorne Street
West
Between Longfellow Street and 28th Street
Hawthorne Street
West
Between Walnut Street and 26th Street
Holland Street
East
Between Longfellow Street and 28th Street
Holland Street
West
Between a point 104 feet north of Lowell Street and the south Borough line (amended by Ordinance 4-1992, August 4, 1992, Section 1)
Holland Street
West
Between south curbline of Longfellow Street and a point 70 feet south
Holmes Street
North
Between Hancock Avenue and Wallace Street
Holmes Street
South
Between Poe Street and Hancock Avenue
Howell Street
East
Between Lowell Street and Bryant Street
Irving Street
East
Between Walnut Street and Longfellow Street
Kennedy Drive
Both
Between Walnut Street and the northern terminus of Kennedy Drive
Lafayette Avenue
East
Between Franklin Avenue and Sherman Avenue
Lincoln Avenue
East
Between Sherman Avenue and south line of municipal parking lot
Linden Street
West
Between Walnut Street and Custer Avenue
Longfellow Street
North
Between Holland Street and the east Borough line
Longfellow Street
South
Between Oak Street and Holland Street
Longfellow Street
South
Between the west line of Wallace Street and a point 75 feet west
Longfellow Street
South
Between Thirty-Second Street and the east Borough line
Lowell Street
North
Between Holland Street and Thirty-Second Street
Lowell Street
South
Between the east line of Hancock Avenue and a point 100 feet east
Madison Avenue
North
Between Jackson Avenue and Franklin Avenue
McKinley Avenue
East
Between Twelfth Street and Washington Avenue
McKinley Avenue
West
Between Grant Avenue and Twelfth Street
Monroe Avenue
North
Between Hancock Avenue and Jackson Avenue
Monroe Avenue
South
Between Hancock Avenue and Franklin Avenue
Ninth Street
Both
Between Vandergrift Lane and Tenth Alley
Poplar Street
East
Between Custer Avenue and Walnut Street
Seventeenth Alley
Both
Between Hancock Avenue and Jackson Avenue
Seventh Street
Both
Between Hamilton Avenue and a point 100 feet east
Sherman Avenue
Both
Between Washington Avenue and Sumner Avenue
Sherman Avenue
North
Between the east line of Farragut Avenue and a point 100 feet west
Sherman Avenue
North
Between the west line of Farragut Avenue and a point 100 feet west
Sherman Avenue
South
Between Sumner Avenue and Franklin Avenue
Sherman Avenue
South
In front of entrance to Gospel Tabernacle in 100 Block
Sixth Street
Both
Between Franklin Street and Eleventh Alley
Sycamore Street
North
Between Poplar Street and Forty-Fifth Street
Sycamore Street
South
Between Linden Street and Poplar Street
Tenth Alley
Both
Between Ninth Alley and Franklin Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Both
Between Custer Avenue and Washington Avenue
Twelfth Street
Both
Between Grant Avenue and Franklin Avenue
Twenty-Eighth Street
Both
Between Wallace Street and a point 100 feet east
Twenty-Fourth Street
Both
Between Linden Street and Jackson Avenue
Twenty-Ninth
Both
Between the east line of Hancock Avenue and a point 160 feet east
Twenty-Ninth
North
Between Cooper Street and Wallace Street
Twenty-Seventh Street
Both
Between Hancock Avenue and Hawthorne Street
Twenty-Seventh Street
Both
Between west line of Hawthorne Street and a point 175 feet west
Twenty-Sixth Street
Both
Between 46th Street and a point 100 feet east
Twenty-Sixth Street
Both
Between Hancock Avenue and a point 200 feet west from the westerly side of Wallace Street
Twenty-Third Street
Both
Between Madison Avenue and Seventeenth Alley
Twenty-Third Street
[Added 9-8-2020 by Ord. No. 4-2020]
Both
Between West Madison Avenue and West Monroe Avenue
Unnamed Alley
Both
Between Twenty-Sixth Street and Irving Street
W. Fifteenth Street
Both
Between Jackson Avenue and Hancock Avenue
Wallace Street
East
Between Lowell Street and Bryant Street
Wallace Street
North
Between Longfellow Street and Twenty-Ninth Street
Wallace Street
North
In front of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the 700 Block
Walnut Street
North
Between Franklin Avenue and Avenue
Walnut Street
North
Between Jackson Avenue and Oak Street
Walnut Street
North
In front of Church of God in the 100 Block
Walnut Street
South
Between Hancock Avenue and Jackson Avenue
Washington Avenue
Both
Between Sherman Avenue and the north line of the municipal parking lot
Washington Avenue
North
In front of entrance to First Presbyterian Church in the 100 Block
Washington Avenue
South
In front of entrance to First Evangelical Lutheran Church in the 100 Block
Whittier Street
North
Between Wallace Street and Cooper Street
Whittier Street
South
Between Cooper Street and Howell Street
[Amended 5-1-1989 by Ord. No. 5-1989]
Parking shall be prohibited in the following locations at all times on the days and between the hours indicated in this section, as follows:
Street
Side
Portion
Days
Hours
All improved streets in Wards 1, 2 and 3
Both
Entire extent
1st Friday of each month
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
All streets in Wards 4, 5 and 6
Both
Entire extent
1st Tuesday of each month
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Columbia Avenue
Both
Entire extent
Fridays
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Farragut Avenue
Both
Entire extent
Fridays
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Fifth Street
Both
Entire extent
Every day
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Fourth Street
Both
Entire extent
Every day
6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Grant Avenue
Both
Entire extent
Fridays
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Longfellow Street
Both
Entire extent
Fridays
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
McKinley Avenue
Both
Entire extent
Fridays
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Second Alley
Both
Entire extent
Every day
6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Third Street
Both
Entire extent
Every day
6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Twenty-Third Street
Both
Between Monroe Avenue and Madison Avenue
Thursdays
6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Washington Avenue
Both
Entire extent
Fridays
6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
No person shall park a vehicle, or allow it to remain parked, for longer than the time indicated in any of the following locations at any time on the days and between the hours indicated:
Street
Side
Between
Days
Hours
Parking Time Limit
Franklin Avenue
East
Vandergrift Lane and Tenth Alley
Every day
At all times
2 hours
The following are established as special purpose parking zones, and it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle, or allow a vehicle to remain parked, in any such zone except as specifically provided for that zone:
Street
Side
Location
Authorized Purpose or Vehicle
Eleventh Street
[Added 8-4-2003 by Ord. No. 5-2003]
South
Between Farragut and Columbia Avenue
Loading and unloading only
[Amended 1-4-1982 by Ord. No. 4-1982; 7-12-2004 by Ord. No. 8-2004]
It shall be the duty of the police officers and parking enforcement personnel of the Borough, acting in accordance with the directions of the Chief of Police, to report:
A. 
The date and hour of the violation;
B. 
The state and license number of the vehicle;
C. 
The specific location of the vehicle which shall establish the violation;
D. 
Any other facts, the knowledge of which is necessary for a thorough understanding of the circumstances attending the violation;
E. 
Every such police officer or other person making the report shall place on the vehicle a notice, in the form of a "parking ticket," thereby giving notice to the owner of the vehicle that the vehicle was parked in violation of the provisions of this article and instructing that the owner or operator must pay the prescribed fine as follows:
(1) 
To pay the sum of $15 by depositing said sum in a depository or receptacle called a "courtesy box" within the parking ticket, which shall be in the form of a self-contained pre-addressed envelope which may either be deposited in said depository or receptacle, or said sum may be paid along with the parking ticket at the Borough Police Station or at the office of the Borough Secretary of the Borough of Vandergrift at the address identified on the parking ticket, or by placing the same, postage prepaid by the violator, in the United States Mail for delivery to the Borough of Vandergrift at the pre-addressed location set forth on the parking ticket within 10 days of the date of the violation;
(2) 
If payment on said parking ticket is not received within 10 days of the date of the issuance of said parking ticket, the original notice/parking ticket shall be referred to the office of the Magisterial District Judge which shall include the Borough of Vandergrift for criminal prosecution, with all fines and costs of prosecution to be lawfully assessed by a court of competent jurisdiction.
[Added 4-4-1988 by Ord. No. 3-1988]
Upon request in writing by any handicapped person or disabled veteran, Council shall have established on the street, as close as possible to his place of residence, a parking space reserved for that handicapped person or disabled veteran.
[Added 4-4-1988 by Ord. No. 3-1988]
In order to qualify for the reservation of a parking space, a handicapped person or disabled veteran shall have first applied for and received a special registration plate as issued by the Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the space so reserved shall at no time be occupied by any motor vehicle not so equipped with a special registration plate.
[Added 4-4-1988 by Ord. No. 3-1988]
Upon the reservation of a parking space for a handicapped person or disabled veteran, a sign or signs and other appropriate markings shall be erected so designating that parking space.
[Added 4-4-1988 by Ord. No. 3-1988]
A. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to park any vehicle, other than the vehicle designated as provided in § 470-24 and for which a parking space is reserved under this chapter, in any such space.
B. 
Any person violating this chapter is guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction, will be sentenced to pay a fine of $15 and costs.
[Added 11-1-1993 by Ord. No. 3-1993]
A parking zone is established on the west side of Lincoln Avenue, beginning at a point just south of the junction of Lincoln Avenue with Washington Avenue, thence extending northwardly across the junction with Sherman Avenue and further north to the terminus of Lincoln Avenue, as described in the engineering study entitled "Description of Property Owned by the Borough of Vandergrift and To Be Used for Parking" and dated August 2, 1993.
A. 
In the said parking zone, parking shall be permitted subject to the following conditions, and parking otherwise shall constitute a violation of this chapter:
(1) 
Only passenger cars may be parked in the said parking zone.
(2) 
Angle parking only shall be permitted, with vehicles to be parked with the front of the car facing inward and away from the street, and where individual parking spaces are marked off, cars shall be parked wholly within such parking spaces.
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for every such violation, be subject to a fine or penalty of $25 and costs.
[Added 7-12-2004 by Ord. No. 7-2004]
A. 
Definitions. The following words, when used in this section, shall have the meanings as set forth in this subsection:
BUS
A motor vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; or a motor vehicle, other than a taxicab or limousine, designed to transport not more than 15 passengers, including the driver, and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. The term does not include a vehicle used in a ride-sharing arrangement, as defined by the Act of December 14, 1982 (P.L. 1211, No. 279, entitled "An Act Providing for Ridesharing Arrangements and Providing that Certain Laws Shall be Inapplicable to Ridesharing Arrangements, or a School Bus").[1]
CONSTRUCTION TRUCK
A three- or four-axle truck engaged in construction operations.
CONVERTER GEAR
A trailer designed and used exclusively to tow a semitrailer by mounting the semitrailer on the fifth wheel of the converter gear. The term includes auxiliary axle and jeep dolly.
FARM EQUIPMENT
A vehicle that is specifically designed and manufactured for and used exclusively in agriculture to plant, seed, cultivate, harvest or apply soil nutrients, fertilizers or chemicals. The term also includes any other vehicle determined by the Department to be farm equipment.
FARM VEHICLE
A truck or truck-tractor determined by the Department of Transportation to be used exclusively for agricultural purposes.
FULL TRAILER
A trailer so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. A semitrailer attached to a towing vehicle by means of a auxiliary front axle or dolly shall be deemed to be a full trailer.
HAZARDOUS MATERIAL
Any explosive, blasting agent, flammable liquid, combustible liquid, flammable solid, flammable or nonflammable compressed gas, corrosive material, poison, poison gas, irritant, oxidizer, organic peroxide, radioactive material, etiologic agent, cryogenic liquid, hazardous waste, hazardous substances, or other material which the Department, by procedure prescribed in Chapter 83[2] (relating to hazardous materials transportation), declares to be a hazardous material.
HOUSE COACH
A vehicle with an enclosed area which is designed, constructed or equipped for use, either permanently or temporarily, as a dwelling place, living abode, sleeping place or camping accommodation. A house coach includes motor homes, sleeping cabinets designed for use on trucks and truck-tractors operated for heavy-duty long-distance hauling.
HOUSE TRAILER
(1) 
A trailer which is designed, constructed and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode or sleeping place (either permanently or temporarily) and is equipped for use as a conveyance on streets and highways.
(2) 
A trailer containing a chassis and exterior shell designed and constructed for use of a house trailer as defined in subsection (1), but which is used permanently or temporarily for advertising, sales, display or promotion of merchandise or services or for any other commercial purpose except the transportation of property.
MASS TRANSIT VEHICLE
A self-propelled or electrically propelled device designed for carrying 15 or more passengers exclusive of the driver, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation, including, but not limited to, subway cars, buses, trolleys, trackless trolleys, but excluding railroad passenger cars.
MOTOR HOME
A motor vehicle designed or adapted for use as a mobile dwelling or office, except a motor vehicle equipped with a truck-camper.
MOTOR VEHICLE
A vehicle which is self-propelled except an electric personal-assistive mobility device or a vehicle which is propelled solely by human power or by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails.
MOTOR VEHICLE CARRIER
(1) 
A truck, truck-tractor, or combination, having a gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight rating, registered gross weight, registered combination weight or actual gross weight of 17,001 pounds or more.
(2) 
A truck, truck-tractor, or combination, engaged in interstate commerce and having a gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight rating, registered gross weight, registered combination weight or actual gross weight of 10,001 pounds or more.
PARK or PARKING
(1) 
When permitted, means the temporary storing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, off the roadway.
(2) 
When prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers.
PASSENGER CAR
A motor vehicle, except a motorcycle, designed primarily for the transportation of persons and designed for carrying no more than 15 persons, including the driver, and primarily used for the transportation of persons. The term includes motor vehicles which are designed with seats that may be readily removed and reinstalled but does not include such vehicles if primarily used for the transportation of property.
RECREATIONAL TRAILER
A trailer designed or adapted and used exclusively for recreational purposes.
ROADWAY
That portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk, berm or shoulder, even though such sidewalk, berm or shoulder is used by pedalcycles. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" refers to each roadway separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.
SEMITRAILER
A trailer so constructed that some part of its weight rests upon or is carried by the towing vehicle.
STATE-DESIGNATED HIGHWAY
A highway or bridge on the system of the highways and bridges over which the Department has assumed or has legislatively been given jurisdiction.
STINGER-STEERED AUTOMOBILE OR BOAT TRANSPORTER
A truck-tractor/semitrailer combination of a total length not greater than 75 feet, exclusive of an overhang of not more than three feet on the front and four feet on the rear of the vehicle, configured as a semitrailer combination, wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame locate behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit.
STREET
A public trafficway within the Borough of Vandergrift, the said definition of which shall be limited to the definition of "highway" as set forth herein.
THROUGH HIGHWAY
A highway or portion of a highway on which vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield the right-of-way to vehicles on the through highway in obedience of a stop sign, yield sign or other official traffic control device when the sign or devices are erected as provided in this chapter.
TOW DOLLY
A trailer designed and used exclusively to tow another vehicle by mounting its front or rear wheels on the tow dolly while the other wheels of the tow vehicle remain in contact with the ground.
TRAFFICWAY
The entire width between the property lines or other boundary lines of every way or place of which any part is open to the public for purposes of vehicular travel as a matter of right or custom.
TRAILER
A vehicle designed to be towed by a motor vehicle.
TRUCK-TRACTOR
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and the load so drawn.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used exclusively upon rails or tracks. The term does not include a self-propelled wheelchair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designed for the exclusive use of a person with a mobility-related disability.
WRECKER
A motor vehicle designed or constructed and used for the towing of abandoned or disabled vehicles.
[1]
Editor's Note: See now 55 P.S. § 695.1.1 et seq.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. Ch. 83.
B. 
Prohibited acts.
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle, other than a passenger car, on any street, highway, roadway or through highway located within the Borough of Vandergrift, County of Westmoreland and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at any time, excepting and reserving therefrom the following:
(a) 
Local deliveries, which shall be limited to a period not to exceed 30 minutes;
(b) 
The parking of school buses, equipment trailers, tractors and related vehicles for purposes of a school district or Borough sanctioned sports-related, school-related or community-related activity within the Borough of Vandergrift;
(c) 
Construction vehicles utilized for active construction, but which shall not include overnight parking of said construction vehicles when active construction is not ongoing.
(2) 
The nonpassenger vehicles are specifically identified as buses, construction trucks, converter gears, farm equipment, farm vehicles, full trailers, hazardous material, house coaches, house trailers, mass transit vehicles, motor vehicle carriers, motor homes, recreational trailers, semitrailers, stinger-steered automobile or boat transporters, tow dollies, trailers, truck-trailers and wreckers, as those terms are defined in section.
C. 
Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and all related costs.
(1) 
Every two-hour period that the nonpassenger vehicle remains parked in a prohibited area shall constitute a separate violation of this section.
(2) 
Should the nonpassenger vehicle remain parked in a prohibitive area for a period in excess of 24 hours, said vehicle may be towed as directed by the Police Department of the Borough of Vandergrift by any able and available company capable of towing the nonpassenger vehicle, with all costs for the same to be borne by the registered owner of the nonpassenger vehicle, said costs shall further include any impounding costs charged by any towing entity.
[Added 12-1-2014 by Ord. No. 10-2014; amended 1-5-2015 by Ord. No. 3-2015]
A. 
Establishment of nonmetered parking lot. The parking lot located west of Washington Avenue and east of Lincoln Avenue is hereby established as a nonmetered parking lot operated by the Borough of Vandergrift.
B. 
Use restriction. The nonmetered parking lot located west of Washington Avenue and east of Lincoln Avenue may be utilized by any lawfully registered motor vehicle, without charge; provided, however, that parking shall be prohibited between the hours of 3:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.
C. 
Penalty for violation. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $15 plus costs.