The following regulations shall govern processions,
parades and assemblages:
A.
Funeral processions.
(1)
No person shall operate a vehicle between the vehicles,
persons or animals comprising a funeral or other authorized procession
while such funeral or procession is in motion, except as otherwise
directed by a police officer. This provision shall not apply to authorized
emergency vehicles as defined in the Vehicle Code.
(2)
Each vehicle in a funeral procession shall be identified
by the display upon the outside of identifying insignia or by any
other method designated by the Police Department.
B.
Participants in a procession. All vehicles, pedestrians
or animals comprising an authorized procession shall proceed as near
to the right-hand curb of the street as practicable and shall follow
in line as closely as is practicable and safe.
C.
Permits required. No parade, procession or assemblage,
except of the Armed Forces of the United States, the military forces
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the forces of the Police Department
or the Fire Department or a funeral procession, shall occupy, march
or proceed along any street, except in accordance with a written permit
issued by the Police Department.
Lanes or paths for pedalcycles are hereby established as part of the streets or highways, or portions thereof, described in Schedule XXIV (§ 145-124), and pursuant to Chapter 35, Subchapter A, of the Vehicle Code, pedalcycle riders shall use the lane or path along such streets or highways and shall not use any other part of the highway.
A.
BOAT TRAILER
FOR HUMAN HABITATION
MOBILE HOME TRAILER
MOTOR HOME
RECREATION VEHICLE
Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly stated, the
following words and phrases shall be construed throughout this section
to have the following meanings:
Every vehicle without motive power designed to carry a boat.
Designed or modified to accommodate persons while engaged
in the activities of sleeping, preparing food or using waste disposal
facilities.
A vehicle for human habitation, without motive power, designed
or modified to be attached to a motor-powered vehicle. It can be of
any size and shall include a camper without motive power.
A self-contained vehicle for human habitation, with motive
power. It can be of any size, shall include a pickup truck which has
its load-carrying area designed or modified for human habitation and
shall include a self-propelled camper.
A motor home, mobile home trailer or boat trailer. It shall
include a motor home or mobile home trailer used as permanent living
quarters by the owner or occupant.
B.
Restrictions. It shall be unlawful to park any recreational
vehicle or boat within the limits of the public right-of-way of any
street within the Township of Lower Merion except during periods of
actual loading or unloading.
No person shall deface, damage, move, obstruct,
destroy, alter or otherwise interfere with any official equipment
or traffic tickets, nor attach to any vehicle anything which simulates
a traffic ticket in general appearance, color or wording.
Police officers engaged in the enforcement of
this chapter are authorized to make such marks on tires or parked
vehicles as may be necessary to determine the length of time such
vehicles have been standing in a restricted parking area. No person
shall erase such marks by any means whatsoever for the purpose of
evading the provisions of this article.
No person shall move or push a vehicle into
any prohibited area or away from a curb such distance as is unlawful.
No person shall use voice or mechanical sound
effects for advertising purposes in a vehicle without having first
applied for and obtained permission from the Police Department.
[Amended 7-19-1995 by Ord. No. 3399]
The use of skateboards or skateshoes on all Township property and on sidewalks and streets in the Township is hereby prohibited, except on minor streets and tertiary arterial streets, as defined in § 135-2 of Chapter 135, Subdivision and Land Development, and sidewalks adjacent thereto and only during daylight hours. Such use is further prohibited on private property where signs prohibiting such activity are posted. As a group activity, such use must not impede vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
