Township of Whitpain, PA
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2023-11-21
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 142 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article VI Snow Emergencies
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Authorities, Municipal
- Ch 7 Board of Supervisors
- Ch 12 Emergency Management Organization
- Ch 13 Public Fire Protection and Related Services
- Ch 16 Fee Schedule Authorization
- Ch 20 Intermunicipal Cooperation
- Ch 23 Local Government Investment Trust
- Ch 27 Manager, Township
- Ch 30 Mutual Aid Plan
- Ch 35 Park and Open Space Board
- Ch 36 Human Relations Commission
- Ch 37 Environmental Advisory Council
- Ch 38 Planning Commission
- Ch 41 Police Private Detail Service
- Ch 44 Public Contracts
- Ch 45 Reproductive Health
- Ch 46 Retirement Benefits and Pensions
- Ch 50 Sanitary Board
- Ch 53 Shade Tree Commission
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 63 Alternative and Massage Therapy Establishments
- Ch 66 Amusements, Indoor and Outdoor
- Ch 71 Building Construction
- Ch 74 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 78 Curfew
- Ch 83 Disturbing the Peace
- Ch 89 Fire Prevention
- Ch 90 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 93 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 96 Grading, Excavations and Fills
- Ch 101 Hunting and Firearms
- Ch 103 Littering
- Ch 104 Mobile Food Vendors
- Ch 105 Waste Collection and Recycling
- Ch 108 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 110 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 113 Piggeries
- Ch 116 Plumbers, Registration of
- Ch 122 Sewers and Sewage
- Ch 124 Snow Emergencies
- Ch 125 Stormwater Management
- Ch 126 Streets, Driveways, Sidewalks, Curbs and Aprons
- Ch 129 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 136 Taxation
- Ch 142 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 142 Art VI Snow Emergencies
- § 142-49 Effect of declaration of emergency.
- § 142-50 Removal of vehicles.
- § 142-51 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 145 Vehicles, Unlicensed
- Ch 149 Watercourses
- Ch 151 Water Systems
- Ch 152 Water Wells
- Ch 155 Weeds and Vegetation
- Ch 160 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A165 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A166 Chapters Subject to Fee Schedule
- Ch A167 Well Construction and Pump Installation
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Amended 11-19-2019 by Ord. No. 378]
Whenever the Township of Whitpain shall declare a highway snow
emergency, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to abandon
or park any motor vehicle or other vehicle on any public roadway within
the Township of Whitpain.
Any member of the Whitpain Township Police Department is hereby
authorized to remove any vehicle abandoned or parked upon any public
highway or street in violation of the terms and provisions of this
article and to take any said vehicle to the nearest garage or other
place of safety. The registered owner of any said vehicle shall be
promptly notified, in writing, of the fact of the removal and of the
place to which said vehicle has been removed, where he may obtain
the same upon payment of any and all towing and storage charges.
Any person willfully violating any of the provisions of this
article shall, upon summary conviction before a Magisterial District
Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $50 and not more
than $300 plus the cost of towing the vehicle and the costs of prosecution,
such fines to be collected as like fines are now collected by law.
