Article II Traffic Regulations

§ 450-9 Speed limits.

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:

Street	Speed Limit (mph)	Between
All state streets in the Borough [Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]	25
All other streets in the Borough	25
Main Street	25	First Avenue and Fifth Avenue
Myrtle Street	15	Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue
Walnut Street [Amended 11-7-2016 by Ord. No. 884]	25	Lewis Road and Township Line Road (800 and 900 blocks)

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.

§ 450-10 Speed limits on bridges and elevated structures.

Maximum speed limits are established, as follows, on certain bridges and elevated structures, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any such bridge or elevated structure, at a higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that bridge or elevated structure:

Bridge or Elevated Structure	Speed Limit (mph)	Location
(Reserved)

§ 450-11 Speed limits for certain vehicles on hazardous grades.

The following are declared to be hazardous grades, and, upon any such hazardous grade, no person shall drive a vehicle, having a gross weight in excess of that referred to for that grade, in the direction stated for that grade, at a speed in excess of that established in this section for that grade, and, if so stated for a particular grade, the driver of every such vehicle shall stop the vehicle before proceeding downhill:

Street	Speed Limit	Direction of Travel	Maximum Gross Weight	Required to Stop Before Proceeding Downhill	Location
(Reserved)

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 for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.

§ 450-12 Speed limits in parks.

[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]

A speed limit of 25 miles per hour is established on all streets and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated by the Borough, except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified, shall apply:

Park	Street	Speed Limit (mph)	Location
(Reserved)

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50. 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.

§ 450-13 Traffic control signals.

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:

Intersection	Type of Signal
Fifth Avenue and Main Street	Stop
First Avenue and Main Street	Stop
Fourth Avenue and Main Street	Stop
Lewis Road and Walnut Street	Stop
Lewis Road and Main Street	Stop

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.

§ 450-14 Prohibited right turns on red signal.

[Amended 2-22-1994 by Ord. No. 737]

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:

Street	Intersecting With	Direction of Travel	Exceptions
Fifth Avenue [Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]	Main street	North and south	—
First Avenue	Main Street	North	—
Fourth Avenue [Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]	Main Street	North and south	—
Lewis Road	Main Street	North	9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Lewis Road	Main Street	South	—
Lewis Road	Walnut Street	North and south	9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Main Street [Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]	Fifth Avenue	East and west	—
Main Street [Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]	Fourth Avenue	East and west	—
Main Street	Lewis Road	East and west	9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.

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.

§ 450-15 One-way streets.

The following are established as one-way streets, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any one-way street other than in the direction established for traffic on that street:

Street	Direction of Travel	Between	Days
Adams Street	South	From Walnut Street to Washington Street	All
Plum Street	East	From Third Avenue to Fourth Avenue	All
Sixth Avenue	South	From Church Street to Main Street	Sundays, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon only
Summer Street	West	From Fourth Avenue to Third Avenue	All

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-16 Rotary traffic islands.

The following are designated as rotary traffic islands, and every vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only to the right of the island:

Rotary Traffic Island	Location
(Reserved)

Any person who drives a vehicle otherwise than to the right of any rotary traffic island shall be guilty of a violation of this section, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-17 Prohibited turns at intersections.

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)

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-18 Right turns only.

It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon the first-named street at any of the following intersections, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, to make other than a right turn, at any time stated, both left turns and straight-across traffic being prohibited:

Vehicles Traveling on	Direction of Travel	Times	Not to Make Left Turn into or Travel Straight Across
(Reserved)

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-19 U-turns.

It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon any of the following portions of streets, in the direction or directions indicated for that street, to make a U-turn:

Street	Portion	Direction of Travel
(Reserved)

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-20 No-passing zones.

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	Between
(Reserved)

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-21 Through highways.

The following highways are established as through highways, thus authorizing stop or yield signs to be erected facing traffic approaching every intersection with the through highway except for those intersections with traffic signals, or with exceptions or modifications as indicated below. Every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop or yield sign authorized by this section shall stop the vehicle or yield right-of-way as required by Section 3323(b) or 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code,[1] as the case may be, and shall not proceed into or across the through highway until he/she has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law:

Highway	Between
Lewis Road	Royersford Road and Washington Street
Main Street	Bridge over Schuylkill River and Lewis Road
Second Avenue	Main Street and Green Street
Walnut Street	Ninth Avenue and east Borough line

[1]

Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b) or (c), respectively.

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-22 Stop intersections.

[Amended 6-11-1991 by Ord. No. 721; 2-25-1992 by Ord. No. 725; 10-26-1998 by Ord. No. 758]

The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 450-21) 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 of 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,[1] and shall not proceed into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street until he/she has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law.

Stop Sign on	Direction of Travel	At Intersection of
Adams Street	South	Washington Street
Arch Street	East and west	Fourth Avenue
Arch Street	East and west	Second Avenue
Arch Street	West	Fifth Avenue
Arch Street	West	Sixth Avenue
Arch Street	West	Third Avenue
Chestnut Street	East	Lewis Road
Chestnut Street	West	Ninth Avenue
Chestnut Street	West	Third Avenue
Chestnut Street	West and east	Fifth Avenue
Chestnut Street	West and east	Fourth Avenue
Chestnut Street	West and east	Seventh Avenue
Chestnut Street	West and east	Sixth Avenue
Church Street	East and west	Lewis Road
Church Street	West	Third Avenue
Church Street	West and east	Fifth Avenue
Church Street	West and east	Fourth Avenue
Fifth Avenue	North	Oak Street
Fifth Avenue	North and south	Green Street
Fifth Avenue	North and south	Washington Street
Fifth Avenue	South	Oak Street
First Avenue	Northwest	Arch Street
First Avenue	Southeast	Arch Street
Fourth Avenue	All (four-way stop)	Church Street
Fourth Avenue	All (four-way stop)	Green Street
Fourth Avenue	All (four-way stop)	Washington Street
Fourth Avenue	North and south	Green Street
Fourth Avenue	North and south	Spring Street
Fourth Avenue	North and south	Washington Street
Green Street	East	Fifth Avenue
Green Street [Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]	East and west	Third Avenue
Green Street	West	Fifth Avenue
Green Street	West	Second Avenue
Myrtle Street	East	Fourth Avenue
Myrtle Street	West	Second Avenue
Myrtle Street	West	Third Avenue
Ninth Avenue	North	Royersford Road
Ninth Avenue	North and south	Church Street
Ninth Avenue	North and south	Main Street
Ninth Avenue	North and south	Walnut Street
Oak Street	East and west	Sixth Avenue
Oak Street	East and west	Seventh Avenue
Oak Street	West	Fifth Avenue
Pine Street	East	Seventh Avenue
Pine Street	East and west	Fifth Avenue
Plum Alley	East	Fourth Avenue
Second Avenue	North	Main Street
Seventh Avenue	All (four-way stop)	Church Street
Seventh Avenue	All (four-way stop)	Oak Street
Seventh Avenue	North and south	Church Street
Seventh Avenue	North and south	Main Street
Seventh Avenue	North and south	Pine Street
Seventh Avenue	South	Washington Street
Sixth Avenue	North and south	Church Street
Sixth Avenue	North and south	Green Street
Sixth Avenue	North and south	Main Street
Sixth Avenue	North and south	Oak Street
Sixth Avenue	North and south	Pine Street
Sixth Avenue	North and south	Washington Street
Spring Street	East	Sixth Avenue
Spring Street	West	Fifth Avenue
Spring Street	West	Third Avenue
Spruce Street	East	Seventh Avenue
Spruce Street	West	Seventh Avenue
Spruce Street	East	Sixth Avenue
Spruce Street	West	Sixth Avenue
Spruce Street	West	Fifth Avenue
Summer Street	East	Third Avenue
Summer Street	West	Third Avenue
Third Avenue	North and south	Green Street
Third Avenue	North and south	Main Street
Third Avenue	North and south	Walnut Street
Third Avenue	North and south	Washington Street
Walnut Street	West	Second Avenue
Walnut Street	All (four-way stop)	Fourth Avenue
Walnut Street	All (four-way stop)	Seventh Avenue
Walnut Street	East	Fifth Avenue
Walnut Street	East	Sixth Avenue
Walnut Street	West	Fifth Avenue
Walnut Street	West	Sixth Avenue
Washington Street	All (four-way stop)	Fifth Avenue
Washington Street	All (four-way stop)	Sixth Avenue
Washington Street	East and west	Lewis Road
Washington Street	East and west	Third Avenue
Washington Street	West	Second Avenue

[1]

Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b).

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-23 Yield intersections.

The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 450-21) 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,[1] and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.

Yield Street	Through Street	Direction of Travel
(Reserved)

[1]

Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(c).

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-24 Play highways.

The following areas upon the streets in the Borough of Royersford are established as play highways:

Street	Between	Days	Hours
(Reserved)

The Mayor is authorized to designate as play highways, whenever he/she deems that action advisable, and for whatever period of time directed by him/her, any part of any street in the Borough of Royersford, where sledding and coasting, shall be permitted. That play highway shall be set apart for the purpose under the direction of the Mayor.

No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon any play highway at any time when that street shall be designated as a play highway, except in case of emergency, with special permission of the Mayor or of the police officer in charge, who shall first clear that play highway of all persons using it for the purpose for which it was set aside. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-25 Snowmobile roads.

The following roads and streets within the Borough of Royersford are designated as special snowmobile roads:

Street or Road	Between	Used by Snowmobiles Only When Closed to Vehicular Traffic?	Shared with Vehicular Traffic?
(Reserved)

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile on any highway, street or road in the Borough of Royersford other than as provided above. Provided: nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from operating a snowmobile on any other street in the Borough of Royersford:

(1)

As authorized by Section 7721 of the Vehicle Code[1] for emergency and bridge crossings and for direct crossing of streets or two-lane highways; or

[1]

Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7721.

(2)

For special snowmobile events where authorized in advance and the street is blocked off as provided in Section 7723 of the Vehicle Code.[2] Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in Section 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.[3]

[2]

Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7723.

[3]

Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7752(a).

§ 450-26 Operation of motor vehicles restricted on public lands.

No motor vehicle or motorcycle or minibike shall be operated on any lands owned by the Borough of Royersford or any other public body or agency within the Borough of Royersford, except on those lands specifically designated for the operation of motor vehicles, motorcycles or minibikes by resolution of the Borough Council.

§ 450-27 Use of pushcarts.

The word "pushcart," as used in this section, shall mean a vehicle, other than a pedalcycle, propelled solely by human power, and used or intended for use for the display, transport, exhibit or sale of goods, wares or merchandise.

It shall be unlawful for any person to propel a pushcart upon any sidewalk in any business district except as necessary to move the pushcart to a location from which it is to be loaded or unloaded or from which goods, wares or merchandise are to be sold or dispensed under permit from Borough Council as provided in Subsection C of this section.

It shall be unlawful for any person to park a pushcart upon any sidewalk except for the purpose of selling or dispensing from that pushcart goods, wares or merchandise to passersby under permit from Borough Council. Every such permit shall be issued to the person making application for the permit, upon payment of a fee as set by resolution of Borough Council, which shall be for the use of the Borough of Royersford. The permit shall be granted to the applicant, upon payment of the fee, and upon his signing an agreement with Borough Council that he/she shall be bound by the conditions imposed by Borough Council and made a part of the permit, dealing with the following matters:

[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]

(1)

Restricting or limiting the parking of the pushcart to one or more stated locations upon the sidewalk and to stated days and hours at each location;

(2)

Stating requirements to be adhered to in connection with the disposal of garbage and refuse resulting from the operations carried on;

(3)

Requiring that there be no violation of any law, ordinance or regulation pertaining to health, sanitation and the handling of food or drink.

Any person who violates any provision of this section, or any condition of any permit granted under this section, shall be guilty of a summary offense, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.

§ 450-28 Skates, coasters, sleds and other toy vehicles.

It shall be unlawful for any person to ride on a sled upon any sidewalk in the Borough of Royersford, or upon any roadway unless that roadway is on a portion of a street blocked off for sledding by authority of § 450-5 of Article I or § 450-24 of Article II of this chapter. Provided: nothing in this subsection shall prevent a pedestrian from pulling a sled, with or without a rider, upon a sidewalk.

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in roller-skating or to ride upon or propel any coaster or other toy vehicle upon:

(1)

Any street except in order to cross the roadway; or

(2)

Any sidewalk located in a business district, except that nothing in this subsection shall prevent a pedestrian from pulling a coaster or other toy vehicle, with or without a rider, upon a sidewalk.

Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs.

[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]