A.
Words and phrases, when used in this chapter, except
for sections or articles to which different or additional definitions
apply, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code
(the Act of June 17, 1976, P.L. 162, No. 81), as amended,[1] except that, in this chapter, the word "street" may be
used interchangeably with the word "highway," and shall have the same
meaning as the word "highway" as defined in the Vehicle Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.
B.
The term "legal holidays" as used in this chapter
shall mean and include: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
C.
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include
the feminine.
D.
Although the streets in the Township run generally
in a northeast-southwest and a northwest-southeast direction, for
the purpose of this chapter, Route 100 and the streets running parallel
or generally parallel to Route 100 shall be deemed to run in a north-south
direction, and Maugers Mill Road and the streets parallel or generally
parallel to Maugers Mill Road shall be deemed to run in an east-west
direction.
All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent
nature shall be enacted as chapters, as parts of chapters, as amendments
to chapters, or as amendments to this chapter, except where the law
specifically authorizes less formal action.
The provisions of this chapter, so far as they
are the same as those of chapters and regulations in force immediately
before the enactment of this chapter, are intended as a continuation
of those earlier chapters and regulations, and not as new enactments.
Nothing in this chapter shall affect any act done or liability incurred,
or any suit or prosecution pending or to be instituted under any of
those repealed or superseded chapters or regulations.
A.
The President of the Board of Commissioners shall
have the following powers to regulate traffic and parking temporarily
and in time of emergency:
(1)
In the case of fire, flood, storm or other emergency,
to establish temporary traffic and/or parking regulations.
(2)
In the case of emergency or to facilitate public works,
or in the conduct of parades, processions or public events, to restrict
or prohibit traffic and/or parking in limited areas for periods of
not more than 72 hours.
B.
Such temporary and emergency regulations shall be
enforced by the Police Department in the same manner as permanent
regulations. Any person who shall operate or park a vehicle or tractor
in violation of any such regulations, or who shall move, remove, destroy,
injure or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made to give
notice of any such regulation, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
subject to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this chapter
for a violation of such nature, and, in case of a violation for which
no specific penalty is set forth in the law or elsewhere in this chapter,
to a fine of not more than $25 together with costs of prosecution.
The Board of Commissioners may, from time to
time by resolution, designate places upon and along the highways in
the Township where, for a period of not more than 90 days, specific
traffic and/or parking regulations, prohibitions and restrictions
shall be in force and effect, and shall designate such locations by
proper signs and markings. Such regulations, prohibitions and restrictions
shall be effective as if they had been specified in this chapter.
No person shall operate or park a vehicle or tractor in violation
of any such regulation, prohibition or restriction, and no person
shall move, remove, destroy or deface any sign or marking erected,
posted or made by authority of this section. Any person who shall
violate any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof,
be subject to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this
chapter for a violation of such nature, and in case of a violation
for which no specific penalty is set forth in the law or in this chapter,
to a fine of not more than $25 together with costs of prosecution;
provided, the purpose of this section is to allow for the test and
experimental determination of the feasibility and desirability of
permanent changes in the chapters of the Township relative to traffic
and parking.
A.
The Board of Commissioners shall have authority to
close any street or specific part of a street to vehicular traffic
and to place barriers or station police officers at each end of the
closed portion, while construction or maintenance work is under way
or a special event is being conducted on the closed portion. It shall
be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle upon any such closed
portion.
B.
The Board of Commissioners shall have authority to
establish a restricted traffic area upon any street where construction
or maintenance work is under way and to station flagmen at each end
of the restricted portion. It shall be unlawful for any person to
drive a vehicle upon any such restricted traffic area at any time
when the flagman is displaying a sign directing that vehicle to stop,
or is signaling that vehicle, by a flag or other device, not to proceed.
C.
Any person who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
ASSEMBLAGE
PROCESSION
For the purpose of this section, the words "assemblage"
and "procession" shall have the following meanings:
A gathering of people without vehicles, which interferes
with the movement of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on any street.
A group of individuals, vehicles, animals and/or objects
moving along a street in a way that interferes with the normal movement
of traffic. A procession shall not include a funeral caravan or military
convoy.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or participate
in any assemblage unless the person organizing or conducting the assemblage
first obtains a permit from the President of the Board of Commissioners,
which shall be issued without fee. Application for the permit shall
be made at least one week in advance of the day on which the assemblage
is proposed to be held, but in any case where a state-designated highway
is proposed to be used, application shall be made at least three weeks
in advance of the proposed date. The permit shall state the place
where and the date when the assemblage is to be held, the hour when
the assemblage may convene and the hour by which it shall have been
completely dispersed. It shall be unlawful for any person to hold
or to participate in any assemblage unless the permit has been granted,
or at any time or place other than that authorized by the permit.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or participate
in any procession unless the person organizing or conducting the procession
first obtains a permit from the President of the Board of Commissioners,
which shall be issued without fee. Application for the permit shall
be made at least two weeks in advance of the day when the procession
is proposed to be held, but in any case where a state-designated highway
is proposed to be used, application shall be made at least three weeks
in advance of the proposed date. The permit shall specify the date
on which the procession is to be held, the route to be followed by
the procession, the hour when and place where participants may commence
to assemble and form before the procession is under way, the time
when the procession may commence to move along its route, and the
time by which the end of the procession shall have reached the end
of the route of the procession and the procession shall have been
disbanded. It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or to participate
in any procession unless the permit shall have been granted, or under
any conditions as to time or route or otherwise than those stated
in the permit.
D.
Any person who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
The police officers of the Township are hereby
authorized to direct traffic on the highways of the Township and at
intersections thereof and to otherwise enforce the provisions of this
chapter.
A.
The Township Police Department is hereby authorized
to use all speed timing devices for the determination of speed of
a motor vehicle as are approved or will be approved by the Department
of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance
with 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3368.
B.
This section authorizes the use of said devices upon
all highways within the Township, be they Township, county or state
highways, and does also hereby elect to exercise all powers granted
to "local authorities" under the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 6101 et seq. (1977), as
hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania.