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.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XIII (§ 180-55), 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.
[Amended 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 873]
No person shall park, stand or stop a vehicle at any time upon any of the streets or parts thereof described in Schedule XIV (§ 180-56), attached to and made a part of this chapter.
No person shall park a vehicle upon any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XV (§ 180-57), 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 XVI (§ 180-58), 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 XVII (§ 180-59), attached to and made a part of this chapter, except as specifically provided for such zone.
[Amended 1-21-2002 by Ord. No. 745[1]]
A.
Fire lanes required. Fire lanes shall be required
in accordance with the provisions of this section and the provisions
contained in the Penn Township Building and Fire Codes on any property
used for assembly. commercial, educational, industrial, institutional
or multifamily dwellings, and on private property containing more
than two dwellings to which access is provided by private roads or
driveways. No proposed subdivision, plan residential development or
land development shall be approved without the compliance with the
term of this section, if any part of the area of said subdivision,
plan residential development or land development contains any of the
uses or conditions described in this section.
B.
FIRE LANE
LAND DEVELOPMENT
(1)
(2)
(3)
PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
SUBDIVISION
Definitions. As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context
clearly indicates a different meaning:
A part of a public parking lot, private driveway or private
road, which is designed to provide access by fire trucks to any building
or location.
The improvement of one or two or more continuous lots, tracts
or parcels of ground for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential
buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single
nonresidential building on a lot or lots, regardless of the number
of occupants or tenure;
The division of allocation of land, whether
initially or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or
prospective occupants by means of or for the purpose of streets, common
areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features;
or
A subdivision of land.
An area of land controlled by a single landowner and developed
as a single entity for a number of dwellings or a combination of residential
and nonresidential uses, the plan for which does not necessarily correspond
in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling unit or use, density or intensity,
lot coverage or required open space to any one district in the Penn
Township Zoning Ordinance.
[2]The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease, transfer or ownership or building
or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease
of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres
not involving any new street or easement of access or residential
dwellings shall be exempted.
C.
Duties of Zoning Officer. All plans submitted under
this section shall be referred to the Zoning Officer for examination.
The Zoning Officer shall report to the Planning Commission, indicating
whether or not the proposal complies with this section. If the Zoning
Officer finds that the fire lanes in the proposal do not comply with
the terms of this section, the Zoning Officer shall specify the changes
necessary to make the proposal comply with this section. Any applicant
may request and receive a conference with the Zoning Officer concerning
any matter under this section. The Zoning Officer shall inspect the
construction of any fire lane required by this section, and no final
approval shall be given to any construction of any driveway, road
or other facility required by this section until the Zoning Officer
has inspected and approved the fire lane.
D.
Location of fire lanes. Fire lanes shall be located
where necessary to provide fire protection to all buildings and premises,
including not only buildings and premises on the parcel of land where
the fire lane is located, but also any buildings or premises on adjacent
land required to be served by the fire lane.
E.
Specifications for fire lanes. Fire lanes shall not
be less than 20 feet wide at any point, and curves and corners shall
be broad enough to permit passage by any fire equipment owned by the
volunteer fire departments within the Township of Penn and any fire
equipment presently in use anywhere in the United States of America.
The surface of the fire lane shall be either concrete or asphalt surface
and shall be of sufficient strength to support all fire fighting apparatus
presently in use by the volunteer fire departments of the Township
of Penn.
F.
Parking. No parking, standing or stopping shall be
permitted at any time on any fire lane, and no parking shall be permitted
in any location which would prevent access to any fire lane by any
emergency vehicle. A lane marking shall be placed on the pavement
containing the words “Fire Lane” (in letters at least
18 inches in height) or similar language to warn people against blocking
the lane. Further, there shall be painted diagonal striping (four-inch
wide lines, 24 inches on center) to designate the fire lane. No person
shall park, stand or stop a vehicle or let a vehicle park, stand or
stop on any fire lane at any time, and no owner, manager, supplier,
deliveryman or tenant of any premises shall permit any customer or
visitor to park any vehicle or permit any vehicle to park, stand or
stop on any part of any fire lane at any time.
[Amended 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 873]
G.
Signs. The owner of the area where a fire lane is
required shall post signs in accordance with the requirements of the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, indicating a "No Parking,
Stopping or Standing" zone.
[Amended 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 873]
H.
Snow and ice removal. The property owner shall remove
all snow and ice from a fire lane forthwith as soon as snow and ice
start to accumulate.
I.
Water. Fire lanes shall be designed and built so that
no water shall stand in the fire lanes at any time.
A.
No person, individual, corporation, partnership or
other entity shall park or allow to be parked upon sidewalks within
the corporate limits of the Township of Penn any vehicle, truck, piece
of equipment or machinery.
B.
Any person convicted of a violation of the prohibition
established hereunder by a District Justice of competent jurisdiction
shall be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed $300 for each and every
violation of the prohibition established herein.
A.
MOTOR VEHICLE
PARK or PARKING
The following words, when used in this section, shall
have the following meanings:
Any device which is self-propelled and upon which any person
or property is or may be transported or drawn, and shall also include
trailers and semitrailers designed for use with motor vehicles and
vehicles of the trailer type.
The standing of a motor vehicle, except Police or Fire Department
vehicles or ambulances, whether occupied or not, other than temporarily
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
or in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals.
B.
From and after the effective date of this section,
it shall be unlawful for any person to park any motor vehicle upon
any street, avenue, alley, road or other public way within the Township
of Penn, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, that is without current
registration plates, serviceable storage battery, current inspection
sticker or which is incapable of being operated legally and immediately,
and, further, it shall be unlawful for any person to have stored or
parked on his private property or any private property two or more
vehicles that are without current registration plates, serviceable
storage battery, current inspection sticker or which are incapable
of being operated legally and immediately.
[Amended 11-21-2011 by Ord. No. 878]
Any person who violates any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not
more than $15 and costs; provided, however, that it shall be the duty
of the police officers and of parking enforcement personnel of the
Township to report to the Police Chief 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. The police officer or other person making the report
shall also attach to or place upon every such vehicle a notice stating
that the vehicle was parked in violation of this article. The notice
shall contain instructions to the owner or driver of the vehicle that
if he/she will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay
the sum of $5 within 24 hours after the date of the notice, then the
fine of $15 and costs set forth herein shall be deemed null and void.
