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:
(2)
The speed limit for both directions of traffic along the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule I (§ 163-54), attached to and made a part of this chapter, is hereby established at the rate of speed indicated in said schedule. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that street or part of a street.
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.
Traffic control signals shall be installed and operated (or are ratified if previously installed) at the intersection of those streets described in Schedule II (§ 163-55), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall make a right turn (or a left turn from a one-way street into another one-way street) when facing a steady red signal at any of the locations described in Schedule III (§ 163-56), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Amended 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to make a U-turn on any of the streets or parts of streets, where such signs prohibiting a U-turn are properly posted, described in Schedule IV (§ 163-57), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule V (§ 163-58), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as one-way streets in the direction indicated, 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.
The intersections described in Schedule VI (§ 163-59), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby established as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position upon the first-named street as to face traffic approaching the second-named street in the direction or directions indicated in said schedule. Every driver of a vehicle approaching any such intersection upon the first-named street, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, shall come to a full stop before entering any such intersections.
The intersections described in Schedule VII (§ 163-60), attached to and made a part of this chapter are hereby established as yield intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position upon the first-named street as to face traffic approaching the second-named street in the direction or directions indicated. Every driver of a vehicle approaching any such intersection upon the first-named street, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, shall slow down or stop the vehicle and then yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on the second-named street so closely as to constitute a hazard during the time that the driver is moving across or within such intersection.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle, except a passenger vehicle, but not including any passenger vehicle drawing any trailer or towing another vehicle, upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VIII (§ 163-61), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
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Editor's Note: The title of this section was
amended 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall apply
to a vehicle in operation by said Borough for police or fire purposes
or a hospital ambulance, while being used for humanitarian purposes.
No person shall operate any vehicle upon any
street or thoroughfare carelessly or with wanton disregard to the
rights or safety of others or in such a manner as to endanger any
person or property.
[Added 11-15-1999 by Ord. No. 770]
A pedestrian crosswalk is:
A.
That part of a roadway at an intersection included
within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite
sides of the street or highway, measured from the curbs or, in the
absence of curbs, from the edges of the roadway, that part of the
roadway included within the extension of the existing sidewalk.
[Amended 9-26-2005 by Ord. No. 834]
