CROSS REFERENCES
Powers of local authorities — See 75 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 6109.
Traffic control devices — See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 6122.
Summary offenses — See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 6502.
Traffic Commission — See ADM. Art. 163.
Repeal by specific reference — See TRAF. 501.03.
Parking regulations — See TRAF. Art. 521 et
seq.
Impounding vehicles — See TRAF. 527.01.
[Ord. 26-1958 § 401, passed 4-18-1958]
It shall be the duty of the Bureau of Police to enforce the
provisions of this Traffic Code. Officers of the Bureau of Police
are authorized to direct all traffic in person or by means of visible
or audible signals in conformance with the provisions of this Traffic
Code and the Vehicle Code, provided that in the event of fire or other
emergency, or to expedite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, officers
of the Bureau of Police or the Bureau of Fire may direct traffic,
as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of this
Traffic Code.
[Ord. 36-1967 § 1, passed 7-19-1967]
(a)
The Chief of Police, by and with the approval of the City Traffic
Engineer, is hereby empowered to make and enforce temporary or experimental
regulations to cover emergencies or special conditions. No such temporary
or experimental regulations shall remain in effect for more than 30
days.
(b)
The City Traffic Engineer may test traffic control devices under
actual conditions of traffic.
(c)
Council may, by resolution, extend for an additional period of time,
at the request of the City Traffic Engineer, any thirty-day temporary
or experimental regulation put into effect by such Engineer.
[Ord. 26-1958 § 1002, passed 4-18-1958]
The provisions of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code shall apply
to any violations thereof within the City.
[Ord. 26-1953 § 1003, passed 4-18-1958]
If any vehicle is found upon a street or highway in violation
of any provisions of this Traffic Code regulating the stopping, standing
or parking of vehicles and the identity of the operator cannot be
determined, the owner, or person in whose name such vehicle is registered,
shall be held prima-facie responsible for such violation.
[1]
Editor's Note: This section was repealed by Ordinance
1-1992, passed 1-8-1992.
[Ord. 54-1988 § 1, passed 7-6-1988]
State Street from Front Street north to Dobbins Landing shall
remain open to four lane traffic.
[Ord. 73-1988 § 1, passed 8-3-1988]
(a)
Any person who violates any provision of this Traffic Code is guilty
of a summary offense and shall be charged under the provisions of
the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code or the Codified Ordinances of Erie Traffic
Code according to the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedures in
summary cases charging parking violations [Rule 95], when the amount
specified on the parking ticket has not been paid within the specified
time indicated on the parking ticket.
(b)
Whoever violates any provision of this Traffic Code, for which no
penalty is otherwise provided, is guilty of a summary offense and
shall be fined not more than $25.
