[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Conway 5-8-1967 by Ord. No. 304, approved 5-8-1967. Revised 6-14-1976 by Ord. No. 346, approved 6-14-1976.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 118.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Borough which is not a street
or highway.
A machine propelled by power other than human power, designed
to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides
and transport persons or property or pull machinery, and includes
without limitation automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
buggy and wagon.
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the
Borough, and no person shall leave any vehicle at any place within
the Borough for such time and under such circumstances as to cause
such vehicle reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
No person shall allow any partially dismantled,
nonoperative, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle to remain on any
property within the Borough for a longer time than 72 hours; except
that this chapter shall not apply with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed
building, nor a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated
in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such
business enterprise, nor a vehicle in an appropriate storage place
or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the Borough,
nor any vehicle placed on the property owned, controlled or leased
by the owner of said vehicle.
A.
The Mayor or any member of the Police Department designated
by him is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle
left at any place within the Borough which reasonably appears to be
in violation of this chapter or lost, stolen or unclaimed; provided,
however, that any vehicle left at any place other than on Borough
property shall not be removed as provided herein until the Mayor or
any member of the Police Department shall have given written notice
to remove said vehicle within 10 days of the mailing of such notice
and of the intention of said Borough official to remove such vehicle
if it has not been removed at the end of such time. Such notice shall
be given by:
B.
The Mayor or any member of the Police Department designated
by him may enter upon private property at all reasonable hours for
the purpose of inspecting such vehicle, posting notice thereon and
removing such vehicle, and it shall be unlawful for any person to
prevent the Mayor or any member of the Police Department from entering
on private property for the purpose of carrying out his duties hereunder
or to interfere with him in the lawful performance of his duties under
the provisions of this chapter.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Conway,
Beaver County, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized to designate a contractor
with tow truck or tow trucks for the purpose of enforcing the provisions
of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful to perform any major automobile
repairs in the streets of the Borough; however, nothing herein is
intended to bar any true emergency work on temporarily disabled automobiles
or repairs of a minor nature.
Any person violating any provisions of this
chapter shall be deemed guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined in an amount not exceeding $300 or be imprisoned
in the Beaver County Jail for a period not exceeding 30 days, or be
both so fined and imprisoned. Each day such violation is committed
or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, punishable
as such hereunder.
