The Mayor is hereby authorized to designate
as play highways, whenever he shall deem such action advisable and
for whatever period of time directed by him, any portion of any highway
in the Borough, whereon sledding and coasting shall be permitted.
No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any play highway at
any time when such highway shall be so designated, except in case
of emergency with special permission of the Mayor or of the police
officer in charge, who shall first clear such highway of all persons
using such highway for the purpose for which it was set aside.
No person shall operate any motor vehicle longitudinally
upon any sidewalk in the Borough; nor shall any person operate any
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 streets or parts thereof described in Schedule I (§ 195-51), attached to and made a part of this chapter, is hereby established at the rate of speed indicated in said schedule. The speed limit for all other streets and parts of streets not listed in said schedule shall be 25 miles per hour. 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.
Traffic control signals shall be installed and operated at the intersection of those streets described in Schedule II (§ 195-52), 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 (§ 195-53), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to make a turn of the kind designated (left, right, all) at any of the intersections described in Schedule IV (§ 195-54), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
[Added 12-13-1999 by Ord. No. 700]
It shall be unlawful for any vehicle, except local traffic, to enter the streets as described in Schedule IVA (§ 195-54.1), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to make a U-turn on any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule V (§ 195-55), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VI (§ 195-56), 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.
No-passing zones are hereby established along those streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VII (§ 195-57), attached to and made a part of this chapter, and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to overtake or pass another vehicle or to drive on the left side of the roadway in any no-passing zone described in said schedule.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule VIII (§ 195-58), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby established as through streets; and the driver of any vehicle, upon approaching any such street 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 or yield the right-of-way, as the case may be, before entering any such through street.
The intersections described in Schedule IX (§ 195-59), attached to and made a part of this chapter (in addition to intersections with the through streets established by this chapter), are hereby established as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be 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 intersection.
The intersections described in Schedule X (§ 195-60), attached to and made a part of this chapter (in addition to intersections with the through streets established by this chapter), are hereby established as yield intersections, and official yield signs shall be 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 any other vehicle), upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XI (§ 195-61), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any commercial vehicle or other tractor, trailer or tractor-trailer combination, having a gross weight in excess of that respectively prescribed, upon any of the streets or bridges, or portions thereof, described in Schedule XII (§ 195-62), attached to and made a part of this chapter, except for the purpose of making local deliveries on said streets.
