CROSS REFERENCES
Tire chains — See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 4525.
Power to regulate — See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 6109(a)(7),
(13).
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this article.
(a)
STREET or HIGHWAY — The entire width between the boundary lines
of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to
the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(b)
ROADWAY — That portion of a street or highway improved, designed
or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or
shoulder.
(c)
SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTES — Those streets marked as such in accordance
with the provisions of this article.
(d)
SNOW TIRES — Any tires mounted on drive wheels of motor vehicles
which are especially designed to give effective traction on snow,
mud or ice covered streets by means of extra heavy duty treads with
special high-traction patterns, except that no tire so defined shall
be construed to be a snow tire if it is damaged or worn to the extent
that its performance would be substantially impaired. The performance
of a snow tire shall be considered substantially impaired, if such
tires when measured in a major tread groove at two points of the circumference
where the tread is thinnest, but not closer than 15 inches, the tread
design depth measures not less than one-fourth of an inch at both
locations.
(e)
TIRE CHAINS — Any metal chains mounted on drive wheel tires
of motor vehicles which cross the tread of each such tire laterally
in at least three different places.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971; Ord. 54-2008, passed 11-19-2008]
(a)
Whenever the Mayor or the Public Works Director or their duly designated
and acting representative finds, on the basis of falling snow, sleet
or freezing rain, that weather conditions will make it necessary that
motor vehicle traffic be expedited and that parking on City streets
be prohibited or restricted for snow plowing and other purposes, the
Mayor or his duly designated and acting representative shall put into
effect a parking prohibition on parts of or all snow emergency routes
as necessary by declaring it in a manner prescribed by this article.
The Mayor or the Director of Public Works or their duly designated
and acting representative, when weather conditions make it necessary,
may place into effect a parking restriction that extends the inner
City posted odd-even parking regulations to include Saturday and Sunday.
(b)
Once in effect, a prohibition under this section shall remain in
effect until terminated by announcement of the Mayor or his duly designated
and acting representative in accordance with this article, except
that any street area which has become substantially clear of snow
and ice from curb to curb for the length of the entire block shall
be automatically excluded therefrom. While the prohibition is in effect,
no person shall park or allow to remain parked any vehicle on any
portion of a snow emergency route to which it applies. However, nothing
in this section shall be construed to permit parking at any time or
place where it is forbidden by any other provision of law.
[Ord. 54-2008, passed 11-19-2008]
(a)
No person operating a motor vehicle on a snow emergency route or
during an odd-even parking prohibition on which there is a covering
of snow, sleet or ice shall allow such vehicle to become stalled wholly
or partly because the drive wheels thereof are not equipped with effective
tire chains or snow tires.
(b)
No person operating a motor vehicle on a part of a snow emergency
route or during an odd-even parking prohibition on which there is
a covering of snow, sleet or ice or on which there is a parking prohibition
in effect shall allow such vehicle to become stalled because the motor
fuel is exhausted or the battery has become inoperative.
[Ord. 54-2008, passed 11-19-2008]
Whenever a vehicle becomes stalled for any reason, whether or
not in violation of this article, on any part of a snow emergency
route on which there is a covering of snow, sleet or ice or on which
there is a parking prohibition in effect, the person operating such
vehicle shall take immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed
off the roadway of such snow emergency route, or during an odd-even
parking prohibition, either into the first cross street which is not
a snow emergency route, or under an odd-even parking prohibition,
or onto the public space portion of a nearby driveway. No person shall
abandon or leave his vehicle in the roadway of a snow emergency route
or during an odd-even parking prohibition, regardless of whether he
indicates, by raising the hood or otherwise, that the vehicle is stalled,
except for the purpose of securing assistance and return without delay.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
(a)
The Mayor or the Public Works Director or their duly designated and
acting representative, shall cause each declaration made by him pursuant
to this article to be publicly announced by means of broadcasts or
telecasts from stations with a normal operating range covering the
City, and he may cause such declaration to be further announced in
newspapers of general circulation when feasible. Each announcement
shall describe the action taken by the Mayor or the Public Works Director
or their duly designated and acting representative, including the
time it became or will become effective, and shall specify the streets
or areas affected. A parking prohibition or advancement of quitting
time-traffic regulations declared by the Mayor or the Public Works
Director or his duly designated and acting representative shall not
go into effect until at least two hours after it has been announced
between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. in accordance with this section.
(b)
The Mayor or the Public Works Director or their duly designated and
acting representative shall make or cause to be made a record of each
time and date when any declaration is announced to the public in accordance
with this section.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
Whenever the Mayor or the Public Works Director or their duly
designated and acting representative shall find that some or all of
the conditions which give rise to a parking prohibition in effect
pursuant to this article no longer exist, he may declare the prohibition
terminated in whole or in part, in a manner prescribed by this article,
effective immediately upon announcement.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
Any provisions of this article which becomes effective by declaration
of the Mayor or the Public Works Director or their duly designated
and acting representative or upon the occurrence of certain weather
conditions shall, while temporarily in effect, take precedence over
other conflicting provisions of law normally in effect, except that
it shall not take precedence over provisions of law relating to traffic
accidents, emergency travel of authorized emergency vehicles, or emergency
traffic directions by a police officer.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
On each street designated by this article as a snow emergency
route, the Bureau of Traffic Engineering shall post a special sign
in every block with the wording: "Snow Emergency Route. No Parking
During Emergency. Snow Tires or Chains Required. Tow-Away Zone". These
signs shall be distinctive and uniform in appearance and shall be
plainly readable to persons traveling on the street or highway.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971; Ord. 54-2008, passed 11-19-2008]
(a)
Members of the Police Bureau are hereby authorized to remove or have
removed a vehicle from a street to the nearest garage or other place
of safety, including another place on the street, or to a garage designated
or maintained by the Police Bureau, or otherwise maintained by this
City, when:
(1)
The vehicle is parked on a part of a snow emergency route on
which a parking prohibition is in effect.
(2)
The vehicle is stalled on a part of a snow emergency route on
which there is a covering of snow, sleet or ice or on which there
is a parking prohibition in effect and the person who was operating
such vehicle does not appear to be removing it in accordance with
the provisions of this article.
(3)
The vehicle is parked in violation of any parking ordinance
or provision of law and is interfering or about to interfere with
snow removal operations.
(4)
The vehicle is parked in violation of a parking restriction
based on a declaration of snow emergency.
(b)
Whenever an officer removes or has removed a vehicle from a street
as authorized in this section and the officer knows or is able to
ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and
address of the owner thereof, such officer shall immediately give
or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of
such removal and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such
vehicle has been removed. In the event any such vehicle is stored
in a public garage, a copy of such notice shall be given to the proprietor
of such garage.
(c)
Whenever an officer removes or has removed a vehicle from a street
under this section and does not know and is not able to ascertain
the name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the
notice to the owner as hereinbefore provided, and in the event the
vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three days,
then and in that event the officer shall immediately send or cause
to be sent a written report of such removal by mail to the State department
whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy
of such notice with the proprietor of any public garage in which the
vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall include a complete description
of the vehicle; the date, time and place from which removed, the reasons
for such removal and the name of the garage or place where the vehicle
is stored.
(d)
No person shall recover any vehicle removed in accordance with this
section except as provided herein. Before the owner or person in charge
of such vehicle shall be allowed to recover it from the place where
it has been placed or impounded, he shall present to a member of the
Police Bureau evidence of his identity and right to possession of
the vehicle, shall sign a receipt for its return, shall pay the cost
of removal and shall pay any cost of storage accrued. Until paid these
charges constitute a lien on the vehicle which may be enforced in
the same manner as a garage keeper's lien.
(e)
It shall be the duty of the Police Bureau to keep a record of each
vehicle removed in accordance with this section. The record shall
include a description of the vehicle, its license number, the date
and time of its removal, where it was removed from, its location,
the name and address of its owner and last operator, if known, its
final disposition and parking violation involved.
(f)
This section shall be supplemental to any other provisions of law
granting members of the Police Bureau authority to remove vehicles.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked
or left in violation of any provisions of this article and is not
removed and impounded as provided for in this article, the officer
finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and any other
information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user,
and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a traffic citation,
on a form provided by the Traffic Bureau, for the driver to answer
the charge against him within 10 days during the hours and at a place
specified in the citation.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
If a violator of this article does not appear in response to
a traffic citation affixed to such motor vehicle in accordance with
this article within a period of 10 days the Clerk of the Traffic Court
or other appropriate person shall send the owner of the motor vehicle
to which the traffic citation was affixed, a letter informing him
of the violation and warning him that in the event such letter is
disregarded for a period of 10 days a warrant of arrest will be issued.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
In any prosecution with regard to a vehicle parked or left in
a place or in a condition in violation of any provision of this article,
proof that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked
or left in violation of a provision of this article, together with
proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time the
registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute prima-facie evidence
that the defendant was the person who parked or left the vehicle in
violation of this article.
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
The following streets or portions of streets within the City
are designated as snow emergency routes:
|
Street
|
From
|
To
|
|---|---|---|
|
Ash Street
|
18th Street
|
12th Street
|
|
Broad Street
|
Elm Street
|
Buffalo Road
|
|
Brown Avenue
|
26th Street
|
Cherry Street
|
|
Buffalo Road
|
Perry Street
|
Bird Drive
|
|
Cherry Street
|
38th Street
|
6th Street
|
|
East 21st Street
|
State Street
|
East Avenue
|
|
East 28th Street
|
Parade Street
|
Elm Street
|
|
East and West 12th Street
|
Pittsburgh Avenue
|
Franklin Avenue
|
|
East and West 15th Street
|
Raspberry Street
|
Perry Street
|
|
East and West 26th Streets
|
Pittsburgh Avenue
|
Elm Street
|
|
East and West 38th Streets
|
Pittsburgh Avenue
|
East City line
|
|
East and West 6th Street
|
Pittsburgh Avenue
|
East Avenue and including Park Avenue North, Park Avenue South,
North Park Row and South Park Row
|
|
East Avenue
|
East Lake Road
|
38th Street
|
|
East Lake Road
|
East Avenue
|
Franklin Avenue
|
|
Elm Street
|
26th Street
|
28th Street
|
|
Franklin Avenue
|
East Lake Road
|
Buffalo Road
|
|
French Street
|
26th Street
|
4th Street
|
|
Greengarden Road
|
38th Street
|
8th Street
|
|
Liberty Street
|
Peach Street
|
5th Street
|
|
McClelland Avenue
|
Buffalo Road
|
38th Street
|
|
Old French Road
|
South City line
|
28th Street
|
|
Parade Street
|
28th Street
|
6th Street
|
|
Peach Street
|
South City line
|
North Park Row
|
|
Pine Avenue
|
South City line
|
28th Street
|
|
Raspberry Street
|
38th Street
|
12th Street
|
|
Sassafras
|
26th Street
|
6th Street
|
|
Seminole
|
West 8th Street
|
West 6th Street
|
|
State Street
|
38th Street
|
Front Street
|
|
West 32nd Street
|
Pittsburgh Avenue
|
Cherry Street
|
|
West 8th Street
|
Pittsburgh Avenue
|
Greengarden Road
|
[Ord. 75-1971, passed 11-24-1971]
The provisions of this article are not enforceable against a
motorist operating a motor vehicle equipped with a front wheel or
four wheel drive only if such vehicle is able to travel on a snow
emergency route without becoming stalled, wholly or partly because
the drive wheels are not equipped with effective tire chains or snow
tires.
[Ord. 6-2005, passed 1-26-2005]
Whoever violates any provisions of this article shall be subject
to a fine of $10.
