All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent
nature shall be enacted as ordinances or as parts of ordinances or
as amendments to ordinances of the Township of Tredyffrin.
[Amended 10-18-2010 by Ord. No. HR-386]
A. The Tredyffrin Township Police Department 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 public works or public events of limited scope or
duration, to restrict or prohibit traffic and/or parking in limited
areas for periods of not more than 72 hours.
B. These temporary and emergency regulations shall be
enforced by the Police Department in the same manner as permanent
regulations. Any person who drives or parks a vehicle in violation
of any such regulation 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 liable to
the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this chapter for
a violation of such nature.
The police shall have authority to direct traffic
on the streets in the Township, at intersections in public and in
other places where the Vehicle Code or this chapter applies.