No person shall operate a motor vehicle or tractor
upon any sidewalk in the borough; nor shall any person operate a motor
vehicle upon or across any sidewalk except in order to gain access
to or egress from a driveway or alley at such locations where the
curb, if such sidewalk is curbed, shall have been properly cut down
for the purpose.
The speed limit for both directions of traffic
along the highways or parts thereof described below is hereby established
at the rate of speed indicated.
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Name of Highway
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Speed limit
(mph)
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Location
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|---|---|---|
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All
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25
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Entire length
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Traffic control signals shall be installed and
operated at the intersection of those highways described below.
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Intersection
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|---|
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(Reserved)
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The highways or parts of highways described
below are hereby designated as one-way streets in the direction indicated.
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Name of Highway
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Direction of Travel
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Limits
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|---|---|---|
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(Reserved)
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It shall be unlawful for the operator of a motor
vehicle or tractor to make a U-turn on any of the highways or parts
thereof described below.
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Name of Highway
|
Location
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|---|---|
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(Reserved)
| |
No person shall make a turn of the kind designated
(left, right, all) at any of the intersections described below.
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Name of Highway
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Direction of Travel
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Prohibited Turn
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At Intersection of
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|---|---|---|---|
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Drive-in window driveway of Bank of Matamoras
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Left
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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All vehicular traffic shall keep to the right
of the following structures or barriers located in the center of the
specified intersections:
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Structure on
(Name of Highway)
|
Intersection of
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|---|---|
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(Reserved)
| |
The highways described below are hereby established
as through highways, and the operator of every vehicle or tractor
upon approaching any such highway at any intersection thereof (except
for such intersections where there are now or shall hereafter be located
official traffic signals) shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable
distance, before entering any such through highway.
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Name of Highway
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Limits
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|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |
[Amended 3-2-1976 by Ord. No. 176; 12-7-1976 by Ord. No.
182; 1-2-1979 by Ord. No. 190; 9-1-1981 by Ord. No.
193; 10-2-1982 by Ord. No. 197B; 8-5-1986 by Ord. No. 207; 8-6-1991 by Ord. No. 228; 10-4-1994 by Ord. No. 244]
A.
All intersections in the Borough of Matamoras will
be Highway stop intersections. The placement of stop signs will be,
except for the exceptions listed below, on the Avenues, thus allowing
traffic traveling on the streets to have the right-of-way.
B.
The exceptions are as follows:
(1)
On all streets that come in contact with a state-maintained
thoroughfare, including Pennsylvania Avenue, Avenue C and Delaware
Drive, the state-maintained highway will have the right-of-way.
(2)
Additional exceptions.
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Stop Sign on
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Direction of Travel
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At Intersection of
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|---|---|---|
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*Indicates four-way stop intersection
| ||
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Avenue H
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Both
|
Third Street
|
|
*Avenue N
|
Both
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Eighth Street
|
|
*Avenue N
|
Both
|
Seventh Street
|
|
*Avenue N
|
Both
|
Third Street
|
|
Eighth Street
|
Avenue H
| |
|
Eighth Street
|
Avenue I
| |
|
*Eighth Street
|
Both
|
Avenue N
|
|
Eighth Street
|
Avenue Q
| |
|
First Street
|
Both
|
Avenue H
|
|
First Street
|
Both
|
Avenue K
|
|
First Street
|
Both
|
Avenue N
|
|
Hill Street
|
Avenue B
| |
|
Matamoras Street
|
Avenue E
| |
|
Ninth Street
|
Both
|
Avenue H
|
|
Ninth Street
|
Avenue I
| |
|
Ninth Street
|
Avenue P
| |
|
Ninth Street
|
Avenue S
| |
|
Second Street
|
Both
|
Avenue B
|
|
Second Street
|
Avenue E
| |
|
Second Street
|
Avenue F
| |
|
*Second Street
[Added 8-4-2009 by Ord.
No. 310] |
Avenue K
| |
|
Second Street
|
Avenue N
| |
|
Seventh Street
|
Avenue H
| |
|
Seventh Street
|
Both
|
Avenue N
|
|
*Seventh Street
[Added 8-4-2009 by Ord.
No. 310] |
Avenue O
| |
|
Seventh Street
|
Both
|
Avenue Q
|
|
Seventh Street
|
Avenue S
| |
|
Sixth Street
|
Both
|
Avenue I
|
|
*Sixth Street
[Added 8-4-2009 by Ord.
No. 310] |
Avenue N
| |
|
Sixth Street
[Added 11-4-2015 by Ord.
No. 325] |
Avenue Q
| |
|
Tenth Street
[Added 7-7-2015 by Ord.
No. 324] |
Both
|
Avenue H
|
|
Tenth Street
[Added 7-7-2015 by Ord.
No. 324] |
Both
|
Avenue I
|
|
*Third Street
|
Both
|
Avenue H
|
|
*Third Street
|
Both
|
Avenue N
|
The intersections described below are hereby
established as yield-right-of-way intersections, and official yield
signs shall be erected in such a position upon the first-named highway
as to face traffic approaching the second-named highway in the direction
or directions indicated. All vehicles and tractors approaching any
such intersection upon the first-named highway, in the direction or
directions indicated, shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle
in the intersection or approaching on the second-named highway so
closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time that
the operator of such vehicle or tractor is moving across or within
such intersection.
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Yield Sign on
|
Direction of Travel
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
The zones described below are hereby established
as no-passing zones and it shall be unlawful for any person driving
a vehicle to pass any other vehicle which is proceeding in the same
direction.
|
Name of Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
any vehicle or tractor, except a passenger vehicle (but not including
any passenger vehicle drawing any trailer or towing any other vehicle),
upon any of the portions of the highways described below; provided,
however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the operation of any commercial
vehicle or tractor upon any highway or portion thereof listed below
where such operation thereon shall be necessary in order to pick up
or deliver any goods, wares, merchandise or material from or to any
premises located upon any such highway or portion thereof.
|
Name of Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
any commercial vehicle or other tractor, trailer or tractor-trailer
combination, having a gross weight in excess of that herein respectively
prescribed, upon any of the highways or portions thereof described
below, except for the purpose of making local deliveries on that highway.
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Name of Highway
|
Max. Gross Weight
(pounds)
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate
any vehicle or tractor upon any highway in the borough that is under
construction, resurfacing or repair, in disregard of any official
sign, barricade or notice that the same is closed to vehicular traffic.
(Reserved)
The operator of any motor vehicle involved in
an accident in the borough and required by law to report such accident
to any department or agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or
any other person required to make such report, shall, at the time
of making such report to the commonwealth, make a written report to
the Chief of Police of the borough containing the same information.
