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The Director of Police, or Chief of Police, is hereby authorized to place and maintain traffic control devices upon any street or highway under his jurisdiction as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Traffic Code, or to regulate, warn or guide traffic, and such other traffic control devices as he deems necessary for the proper control of traffic. The Director or Chief of Police shall determine the location, timing and coordination of such traffic control devices upon the basis of an applicable engineering or traffic investigation and shall consider the following:
(a) 
The maximum safety and protection of vehicular and pedestrian traffic from physical injury or property damage;
(b) 
The existing and potential traffic movement, volume and conditions;
(c) 
The location and frequency of accidents, including studies of remedial measures;
(d) 
The recommendations of the Sergeant in charge of the Traffic Division and the Director-Fire Marshall;
(e) 
The acceleration of transportation of persons and property by vehicles so as to expedite travel and promote public safety;
(f) 
The convenience and welfare of the general public in parking, standing, loading and unloading, and the use of the streets as affecting business concerns and places of assembly; and
(g) 
Economy in the expenditure of money.
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The Director or Chief of Police is hereby authorized to:
(a) 
Designate any street or highway as a through street or highway and require that all vehicles stop or yield the right of way as may be required before entering the same;
(b) 
Designate any intersection as a stop intersection and require all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersection;
(c) 
Designate any intersection as a yield intersection and require all vehicles to yield the right of way as required;
(d) 
Designate any street as a one-way street and require that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specific direction;
(e) 
Designate and mark lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the centerline of the roadway;
(f) 
Erect signs directing slow-moving traffic to use a designated lane or allocating specified lanes to traffic moving in the same direction;
(g) 
Designate those portions of any street, where overtaking and passing other traffic or driving to the left of the center or centerline of the roadway would be especially hazardous, by appropriate signs or markings on the street to indicate the beginning and end of such zone; such zones may be marked by an auxiliary yellow line placed parallel and to the right of the normal centerline or offset marked lane line;
(h) 
Place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections and require that a specific course of direction be traveled by vehicles proceeding in lanes by either permitting, prohibiting or requiring turns at such intersections;
(i) 
Install traffic control devices, signals and signs at any location to regulate traffic;
(j) 
Establish safety zones, crosswalks, zones of quiet and play streets;
(k) 
Close any street or portion thereof to vehicular traffic which is in the process of construction, reconstruction or repair;
(l) 
Determine the location of any necessary bus stops and taxicab stands;
(m) 
Determine the location and limiting hours of truck loading zones;
(n) 
Designate dangerous railroad crossings and erect stop signs thereat;
(o) 
Erect "No U Turn" signs at any location to prohibit a vehicle from being turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction;
(p) 
Regulate or prohibit the stopping, standing and parking of vehicles on streets, alleys or public property by erecting signs or meters plainly indicating the prohibition, restrictions or limitations; and
(q) 
Designate individual parking spaces by markings, which may either be parallel or at a prescribed angle to the curb or edge of the roadway.
[Ord. 2335, passed 3-1-2000]
No provision of this chapter shall be effective until signs, signals, markings or other devices giving notice of such local traffic regulations are posted upon or at the entrance to the street or part thereof affected, as may be most appropriate, so that in a proper position they are sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
[Ord. 2335, passed 3-1-2000]
The Director or Chief of Police shall keep a record of all rules, regulations and proceedings promulgated in connection with this chapter.
[Ord. 2335, passed 3-1-2000]
(a) 
Any proposed change by the Director or Chief of Police regarding traffic shall be transmitted to the Mayor and Council before being added to existing regulations. If Council does not object, the regulation shall go into effect. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, Council may override any decision of the Director or Chief of Police and may assume any powers delegated to the Director or Chief of Police.
(b) 
In addition to the powers set forth in Subsection (a) hereof, Council may make a thirty-day trial of any traffic regulation, but not to exceed a ninety-day trial period, and in so doing, a notice of such regulation by appropriate signs shall be given to the public in advance of the enforcement of such traffic regulation.
Council may:
(1) 
Make rules for the administration and enforcement of the traffic regulations herein set forth;
(2) 
When unusual occasions or exigencies arise, or streets or adjoining premises are being used for special temporary purposes, direct that all traffic and parking be prohibited or limited on particular sections of thoroughfares, streets and other public ways so affected by such unusual cases or exigencies;
(3) 
Establish, change or abolish, and designate by appropriate signs or markings, crosswalks, traffic lanes, parking spaces, safety and quiet zones and play highways;
(4) 
Direct the placing, operating, removing and replacing of all official traffic equipment, signs, lights, devices, etc.;
(5) 
Establish through traffic stops and fix or change parking restrictions on designated streets for a trial period to begin upon the posting of signs and not to exceed 90 days, provided that a trial period is established of at least 30 days with appropriate signs, etc., having been erected to warn the public in advance of the enforcement date of such traffic regulation, and provided, further, that Council may, at any time, rescind any such trial regulation by Resolution and, in this event, the traffic regulation which applied prior thereto shall be again in full force and effect or, if there was no prior regulation, then Council can proceed with new regulations;
(6) 
In the case of fire, flood or storm, establish and enforce temporary traffic regulations for the purpose of expediting traffic or safeguarding pedestrians during the period of fire, flood or storm, which powers may also be exercised by the Police Force and any other agency that may be needed in case of an extreme emergency;
(7) 
Restrict or prohibit parking temporarily in limited areas for periods not in excess of six hours at any one time in case of emergency or in order to facilitate public work, the conduct of processions or parades, public events, etc. Such temporary regulations shall only be enforced after notices thereof have been posted throughout the area affected for at least three hours prior to the effective time of the temporary regulations.
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Whoever violates a rule or regulation promulgated under authority of this chapter is guilty of a summary offense and shall be subject to the penalties provided for in § 404.99, unless a different penalty has been established as a result of a specific violation as set forth in this chapter, in which case the more specific penalty shall apply.
[Ord. 2335, passed 3-1-2000]
(a) 
Any person operating a vehicle or combination upon a highway or bridge in violation of a prohibition or restriction imposed under Subsection (a) of 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 4902, dealing with restrictions or prohibition of the operation of vehicles due to weight or size of the vehicles, based on the condition of a highway or bridge, is guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $75, except that any person convicted of operating a vehicle with a gross weight in excess of a posted weight shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $150 plus $150 for each 500 pounds, or part hereof, in excess of 3,000 pounds over the maximum allowable weight.
(b) 
Any person operating a vehicle or combination in violation of a prohibition or restriction imposed under Subsection (b) of 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 4902, dealing with restrictions or prohibition of the operation of vehicles due to traffic conditions of a highway or bridge, is guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $100.