No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable
and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and
potential hazards then existing, nor at a speed greater than will
permit the driver to bring his vehicle to a stop within the assured
clear distance ahead. Consistent with the foregoing, every person
shall drive at a safe and appropriate speed when approaching and crossing
an intersection or railroad grade crossing, when approaching and going
around a curve, when approaching a hill crest, when traveling upon
any narrow or winding roadway and when special hazards exist with
respect to pedestrians or other traffic or by reason of weather or
highway conditions.
A.
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:
|
25 Mile Per Hour Speed Limit
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Street
|
Location
| |
|
Blackwood Lane
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1; 3-17-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-2] |
Entire length
| |
|
Colorado Drive
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Corys Court (T-434)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Cuesta Drive (T-446)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
East Fourth Street
|
From Corys Court to Garey Road
| |
|
East Third Street (T-430)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
George Street
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Heather Lane (T-427)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Hemlock Circle
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Hillside Drive (T-431)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Jeffrey Place (T-443)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Joni Circle (T-447)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
King Street (T-418)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Lanie Drive (T-444)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Linden Street (T-432)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Magnolia Drive (T-419)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Maple Springs Drive
|
From East Second Street to East Third Street
| |
|
Maple Terrace (T-426)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Pine Circle
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Queen Street (T-416)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Spruce Drive
[Added 3-17-2008 by Ord.
No. 2008-2] |
Entire length
| |
|
Sunset Drive (T-448)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Union Street (T-421)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Wahl Street
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Washington Street (T-360)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
Woodglen Road (T-435)
[Added 1-17-2000 by Ord.
No. 2000-1] |
Entire length
| |
|
30 Mile Per Hour Speed Limit
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Street
|
Location
| |
|
Center Road
|
Between Route 724 and Kulptown Road
| |
|
Fire Tower Road
[Added 12-19-2011 by Ord.
No. 2011-09] |
Entire length
| |
|
35 Mile Per Hour Speed Limit
| ||
|
Street
|
Location
| |
|
Black Mat Road
|
Between Route 724 and its terminus
| |
|
Garey Road
|
Between Route 724 and East Fourth Street
| |
|
Garey Road
[Added 8-18-1997 by Ord.
No. 97-4] |
Between East Fourth Street and Center Road, with an advisory
speed limit of 15 miles per hour at the sharp curve located approximately
1,000 feet to the north of the intersection of East Fourth Street
and Garey Road
| |
|
Hopewell Road
|
Between Route 345 and Route 82
| |
|
Park Road
[Added 5-18-1992 by Ord.
No. 92-2] |
Between the Township line and the limits of French Creek State
Park, containing approximately 4,460 linear feet (0.92 miles)
| |
|
School Street
|
Between Route 724 and Monocacy Creek Road
| |
|
40 Mile Per Hour Speed Limit
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Street
|
Location
| |
|
Baptism Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Mullen Hollow Road
|
From Geigertown Road to Route 82
| |
|
Pine Swamp Road
|
Between Route 345 and Park Road
| |
|
Unionville Road
[Added 5-18-1992 by Ord.
No. 92-2] |
Between State Route 724 and the Township line, containing approximately
4,435 linear feet (0.84 miles)
| |
|
45 Mile Per Hour Speed Limit
| ||
|---|---|---|
|
Street
|
Location
| |
|
Crusher Road
|
Between Route 724 and Route 345
| |
|
Geigertown Road
[Added 3-17-2008 by Ord.
No. 2008-2] |
Entire length
| |
|
Red Corner Road
|
Between Route 724 and Crusher Road
| |
|
Shed Road
|
Between Red Corner Road and Route 345
| |
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. 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.
A.
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
|
Type of Signal
| |
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
B.
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any traffic
signal shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
costs.
A.
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)
| |||
B.
Any driver of a vehicle who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
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
|
Into
|
When
|
Type of Vehicle Applicable To
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following are established as no-passing zones, and it shall be
unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to overtake or pass another
vehicle or to drive on the left side of the roadway in any no-passing
zone:
|
Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Location
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Geigertown Road
|
East and west
|
Between Route 345 to Route 82
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs.
[Amended 12-21-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-05]
A.
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 Section 3323(b) of the
Vehicle Code, 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
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Baptism Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Black Mat Road
|
Route 724
| |
|
Center Road
|
Route 724
| |
|
Center Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Crusher Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Davidheiser Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
East Fourth Street
|
Garey Road
| |
|
East Second Street
|
Chestnut Street
| |
|
East Third Street
|
Chestnut Street
| |
|
Firetower Road
|
Cold Run Road
| |
|
Firetower Road
|
Geigertown Road
| |
|
Forest Meadows Road
|
Geigertown Road
| |
|
Garey Road
|
Center Road
| |
|
Garey Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Geigertown Road
|
Route 82
| |
|
Geigertown Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Hallman Road
|
Black Mat Road
| |
|
Hallman Road
|
Red Corner Road
| |
|
Hopewell Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Ivy Lane
|
Route 724
| |
|
Kratz Road
|
Firetower Road
| |
|
Kratz Road
|
Geigertown Road
| |
|
Magnolia Road
|
Route 724
| |
|
Maple Springs Drive
|
East Third Street
| |
|
Mullen Hollow Road
|
Mullen Road
| |
|
Mullen Road
|
Geigertown Road
| |
|
Pine Swamp Road
|
Park Road
| |
|
Red Corner Road
|
Route 724
| |
|
Red Corner Road
[Added 12-21-2009 by Ord.
No. 2009-05] |
Shed Road
| |
|
Salaneck Road
|
Red Corner Road
| |
|
School Street
|
Monocacy Road
| |
|
School Street
|
Route 724
| |
|
Second Street
|
Route 345
| |
|
Shed Road
[Added 12-21-2009 by Ord.
No. 2009-05] |
Red Corner Road
| |
|
Shed Road
|
Route 345
| |
|
Shed Road
|
Route 724
| |
|
Sycamore Road
|
Black Mat Road
| |
|
Sycamore Road
|
Red Corner Road
| |
|
Third Street
|
Route 345
| |
|
Union Street
|
Route 724
| |
|
Washington Street
|
Route 724
| |
|
Williams Road
|
Red Corner Road
| |
|
Yocum Road
|
Black Mat Road
| |
|
Yocum Road
|
Unionville Road
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs.
[Amended 12-21-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-05]
A.
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 Section 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)
| |||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following roads and streets within the Township are designated
as special snowmobile roads:
|
Street or Road
|
Between
|
Used by Snowmobiles Only When Closed to Vehicular Traffic?
|
Shared with Vehicular Traffic?
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile on any
highway, street or road in the Township other than as provided above,
provided nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from operating
a snowmobile on any other street in the Township:
(1)
As authorized by Section 7721 of the Vehicle Code for emergency and
bridge crossings and for direct crossing of streets or two-lane highways;
or
(2)
For special snowmobile events where authorized in advance and the
street is blocked off as provided in Section 7723 of the Vehicle Code.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject
to the penalties prescribed in Section 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.
