No person shall cause a vehicle to be left in the parked position with the engine operating where said owner or operator is not in attendance with the vehicle or where said operator is asleep within the idling vehicle. (This section is adopted pursuant to the Pennsylvania First Class Township Code, 53 P.S. § 56526, which provides for authorization for Townships of the First Class to enact regulations upon declaring certain conditions on public or private property to be nuisances or prejudicial to the public health or safety and prohibiting such conditions from being maintained.)
Wherever a space is marked off on any street for the parking of an individual vehicle, every vehicle parked there shall be parked wholly within the lines bounding that space, and it shall be a violation of this article for any person to park a vehicle or allow it to remain parked otherwise.
[Amended 4-20-1999 by Ord. No. 89-5; 3-14-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-8; 1-16-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-01; 1-16-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-01; 5-20-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-04]
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XIV (§ 191-78), attached to and made a part of this chapter, except at the angle designated and only within the painted stall lines. On all streets or portions thereof where angle parking is now or shall hereafter be authorized, all vehicles parked thereon shall be parked with the front thereof nearest the curb.
A. 
No person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets thereof described in Schedule XV (§ 191-79), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
B. 
No person shall park a vehicle having a gross weight in excess of 7,000 pounds or a recreational vehicle, which shall include mobile homes, truck-mounted campers, travel trailers, folding tent campers, snowmobiles, minibikes, go-karts, boats, boat trailers, utility trailers or other motor vehicles adapted for vacation, residential or recreational use, upon any of the streets thereof described in Schedule XXIII (§ 191-87), attached to and made part of this chapter.
C. 
No person shall park a commercial vehicle, truck, and/or trailer having a gross weight in excess of 7,000 pounds upon any properties, whether public or private, located in the residential districts of the Township attached to and made a part of this chapter.
D. 
Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to buses and vehicles transporting passengers for pay or hire, to vehicles of the Police Department or of any fire company, to vehicles of any public utility company engaged in the performance of public utility work, to vehicles making local deliveries or rendering services to occupants of buildings or to any vehicle owned by or performing work for the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any political subdivision thereof.
[Amended 5-20-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-04]
No person shall park a commercial vehicle or a recreational vehicle, which shall include mobile homes, truck-mounted campers, travel trailers, folding tent campers, snowmobiles, minibikes, go-karts, boats, boat trailers, utility trailers or other motor vehicles adapted for vacation, residential or recreational use, at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XVI (§ 191-80), attached to and made part of this chapter.
Parking is hereby prohibited on all bridges located within the Township at any and all times.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XVII (§ 191-81), attached to and made a part of this chapter, during the hours specified in said schedule, on any day except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
No person shall park a vehicle or allow the same to remain parked upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XVIII (§ 191-82), attached to and made a part of this chapter, between the hours specified, for longer than the time indicated in said schedule.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked in any special purpose parking zone established in Schedule XIX (§ 191-83), attached to and made a part of this chapter, except as specifically provided for such zone.
[Amended 6-16-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-06]
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs; provided, however, that it shall be the duty of the police officers and of parking enforcement personnel of the Township to record all violations of any provision of this article, indicating, in each case, the section violated, the license number of the vehicle involved in the violation, the location where the violation took place and any other facts that might be necessary in order to secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending the violation.