[Amended 9-9-2004 by Ord. No. 04-14]
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:
Street
Between
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
Becker Road
Snyder Road to Hauck Road
25
Buck Road
—
15
Colonial
—
30
Deep Creek Road
From Green Lane Road to Fisher Road
35
Deep Creek Road
From Perkiomen Avenue to Green Lane Road
25
Fagleysville Road
—
35
Faust Road
Pennsylvania Route 73 to Little Road (LR 46010)
35
Faust Road
From Little Road (LR 46010) to Salford Station Road (T481)
35
Goezel Road
Becker Road to Perkiomenville Road
25
Gottshall Road
Sweisfort Road to Perkiomenville Road
30
Hauck Road
Snyder Road to Perkiomenville Road
25
Heimbach Road
Pennsylvania Route 73 to Little Road (LR 46010)
35
Keyser Road
Fagleysville Road to Neiffer Road
35
Kratz Road
Route 29 to the Lower Frederick Township Line
25
Krause Road
From Rt. 73 (SR 0073) to the Lower Frederick Township Line
25
Little Road
Perkiomenville Road to the Lower Frederick Township Line
35
Salford Station Road
—
25
Snyder Road
—
35
Swamp Creek Road
[Added 5-10-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-05]
Limerick Township Line to Lower Frederick Township line
25
Sweisfort Road
Little Road (LR 46010) to Gottshall Road
30
Yost Road
Snyder Road to Sweisfort Road
25
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. 
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
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(Reserved)
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. 
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
Between
Direction of Travel
Maximum Gross Weight
Maximum Speed Limit
Required to Stop Before Proceeding Downhill
(Reserved)
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 for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
A. 
A speed limit of 15 miles per hour is established on all streets and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated by the Township, except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified, shall apply:
Park
Street
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(Reserved)
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. 
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
From
To
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. 
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 Turn
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. 
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 left turn, at any time stated, both right turns and straight-across traffic being prohibited:
Vehicles Traveling On
Direction of Travel
Times
Not To Make Right Turn Into or Travel Straight Across
(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. 
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)
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
Between
(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 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 §§ 3323(b) or 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, as the case may be, and shall not proceed into or across the through highway until he has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law:
Highway
Between
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Amended 7-11-2002 by Ord. No. 02-10; 9-8-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-07]
A. 
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 265-21) 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 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 § 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
Intersection or Through Street
Direction of Travel
Becker
Hauck
—
Becker
Snyder
—
Brookside Way
Faust Road
—
Buck Road
Faust Road
—
Buck Road
Foxfield Circle (Both Intersections)
Buck Road
Glenwood Drive
Buck Road
Pin Oak Lane
Colonial
Fagleysville
—
Creek Lane
Green Lane Road
—
Deep Creek Road
Route 29
—
Faust
Route 73
—
Faust
Little
—
Faust
Salford Station
—
Fisher Lane
Deep Creek Road
—
Goezel
Becker
—
Goezel
Perkiomenville
—
Gottshalk
Perkiomenville
—
Hauck
Snyder
—
Haywood Road
State Route 29
—
Heimbach
Little
—
Heimbach
Route 73
—
Hildebeidel
Colonial
—
Hunsberger
State Route 73
—
Ivy Lane
Route 73
North
Keyser
Fagleysville
—
Keyser
Neiffer
—
Kratz
Route 29
—
Kratz
Salford Station
—
Krause
Route 73
—
Locust Lane
Haywood Road
—
Opossum
Snyder Road
—
Perkiomen Avenue
Deep Creek Road
—
Pheasant
Opossum Avenue
—
Raccoon
Woodchuck Lane
—
Rockhill
Perkiomenville Road
—
Sweisfort
Little
—
Swamp Creek
Neiffer
—
Swamp Creek
Fagleysville
—
Woodchuck
Opossum Avenue
—
Woodland
Becker Road
—
Yost
Snyder
—
Yost
Sweisfort
—
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 intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 265-21) 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 § 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. 
No motor vehicle including a motorcycle, pedalcycle or minibike shall be operated on any property owned by the Township or any other public agency or instrumentality within the Township without the permission of the property owner and a permit from the [designated official] of the Township.
B. 
Any person who violates an provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A. 
The following locations 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:
Location
(Reserved)
B. 
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.
A. 
The following areas upon the streets in the Township are established as play highways:
Street
Between
Days
Hours
(Reserved)
B. 
The [designated official] is authorized to designate as play highways, whenever he deems that action advisable, and for whatever period of time directed by him, any part of any street in the Township, where sledding and coasting, shall be permitted. That play highway shall be set apart for the purpose under the direction of the [designated official].
C. 
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 [designated official] 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.
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 borough:
(1) 
As authorized by § 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 § 7723 of the Vehicle Code. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in § 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.