[Added 12-17-2007 by Ord. No. 08-07]
The following words when used in this article
shall have the following definitions except where the context clearly
indicates otherwise. If any word used in this article is not defined
in this section, but is defined in Section 102 of the Pennsylvania
Motor Vehicle Code, as amended from time to time, 75 Pa C.S.A. § 102,
such word shall the same meaning as ascribed to it in Section 102
of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 102,
as amended from time to time.
A motor vehicle designed to transport 16 or more passengers,
including the driver; or, a motor vehicle, other than a taxicab or
limousine, designed to transport not more than 15 passengers, including
the driver. The term does not include a vehicle used in a ride-sharing
arrangement, as defined in the Act of December 14, 1982 (P.L. 1211,
No. 279), entitled, "An act providing for ridesharing arrangements
and providing that certain laws shall be inapplicable to ridesharing
arrangements," or a school bus.
The GC General Commercial District, the PC Planned Commercial District; the NC Neighborhood Commercial District; the OB Office/Business District, the HM Highway Maintenance District, the TC Town Center District, and the HHCV Hospital Health Care Village District, established under Chapter 275, Zoning, and shown on the Bethlehem Township Official Zoning Map enacted as part of Chapter 275, Zoning.
A truck or truck tractor having a Pennsylvania registered
gross vehicle weight rating or a gross combination weight rating of
11,001 pounds or greater as designated by 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1916,
or a truck or truck tractor which is not required to be registered
in Pennsylvania but which, if such registration were required, would
be registered as having a gross vehicle weight rating or a gross combination
weight rating of 11,001 or greater as designated by 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1916.
Two or more vehicles physically interconnected in tandem.
A motor vehicle designed or adapted for use as a mobile dwelling
or office, except a motor vehicle equipped with a truck-camper.
The value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight
of a combination.
The value specified on the federal weight certification label
by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle.
The combined weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles
and its load excluding the driver's weight.
A vehicle which is self-propelled except an electric personal
assistive mobility device or a vehicle which is propelled solely by
human power or by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires,
but not operated upon rails.
A bus; a Class V and greater vehicle; a dual-wheel motor
home; a recreational trailer; a truck camper, all as defined in this
section, and any other motor vehicle having a width greater than seven
feet or a height greater than nine feet or a length greater than 30
feet.
When permitted, means the temporary storing of a vehicle,
whether occupied or not, off the roadway; and, when prohibited, means
the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
property or passengers.
A trailer designed or adopted and used exclusively for recreational
purposes.
The AG Agricultural District, the CR Conservation and Recreation District, the RR Rural Residential District, the LDR Low-Density Residential District, the MDR Medium-Density Residential District, and the MHDR Medium-High-Density Residential District, established under Chapter 275, Zoning, and shown on the Bethlehem Township Official Zoning Map enacted as part of Chapter 275, Zoning.
A motor vehicle which is designed to and is used for the
transportation of preprimary, primary or secondary school students
to or from public, private or parochial schools or events related
to such schools or school-related activities.
When prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, except momentarily for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.
When prohibited, means any halting even momentarily of a
vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict
with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police
officer or traffic-control sign or signal.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel, including without limitation
the cartway, berm, and shoulder thereof.
A vehicle designed to be towed by a motor vehicle.
A motor vehicle designed primarily for the transportation
of property. The term includes motor vehicles designed with seats
that may be readily removed and reinstalled if those vehicles are
primarily used for the transportation of property.
A structure designed, used or maintained primarily to be
loaded or affixed to a motor vehicle to provide a mobile dwelling,
sleeping place, office or commercial space.
A motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other
vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part
of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices used
exclusively upon rails or tracks. The term does not include a self-propelled
wheel chair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designed
for the exclusive use of a person with a mobility-related disability.
A.Â
Stopping, standing, and parking on streets in or abutting
residential zoning districts.
(1)Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand,
or park an oversized vehicle on any street in or abutting a residential
zoning district; provided, nevertheless, that this section shall not
prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of:
(a)Â
Emergency or authorized vehicles as defined in 75 Pa.C.S.A., Vehicles, Part I, Preliminary Provisions, Chapter 1, General Provisions, § 102, Definitions;
(b)Â
Vehicles engaged momentarily for the purpose
of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or
passengers;
(c)Â
Vehicles of service companies, contractors,
repairmen, delivery trucks or others actually engaged in working operations
between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. where the vehicle is
stopped, stood, or parked adjacent to the property at which the operations
are being conducted.
B.Â
Stopping, standing, and parking on streets in business
and commercial zoning districts.
(1)Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand,
or park an oversized vehicle on any street in or abutting a business
and commercial zoning district for a continuous period of time longer
than two hours; provided, nevertheless, that this section shall not
prohibit the stopping, standing, or parking of the following vehicles
in excess of such two-hour period:
(a)Â
Emergency or authorized vehicles as defined in 75 Pa.C.S.A., Vehicles, Part I, Preliminary Provisions, Chapter 1, General Provisions, § 102, Definitions;
(b)Â
Vehicles engaged for the purpose of and while
actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers;
(c)Â
Vehicles of service companies, contractors,
repairmen, delivery trucks or others actually engaged in working operations
between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. where the vehicle is
stopped, stood, or parked adjacent to the property at which the operations
are being conducted.
C.Â
Stopping, standing, and parking on streets in industrial
districts.
(1)Â
Restrictions on stopping, standing, and parking of oversized vehicles in or abutting industrial districts, except as provided otherwise in this Article VIII, shall be established by inclusion of such streets in Chapter 15, Motor Vehicles, Part 4, General Parking Regulations, and by erection of official traffic-control devices.
D.Â
Stopping, standing, and parking of trailers.
(1)Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand,
or park a trailer not attached to a motor vehicle on any street unless
the trailer is actually in the process of being attached to and is
subsequently transported and towed by a motor vehicle.
E.Â
Stopping, standing and parking of motor vehicles opposite
each other.
(1)Â
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand,
or park a motor vehicle in any way such that if such vehicles are
parked along one or both curb faces or edges of the roadway, two motor
vehicles cannot move abreast of one another in the same or the opposite
direction without one yielding to allow the other vehicle to pass.
Where stopping, standing, or parking is restricted by § 252-51A or B, and no official traffic-control device is erected to indicate the restriction, notice of the restriction and the violation thereof shall be given to the owner or operator of the vehicle stopped, stood, or parked in violation of the restriction prior to the issuance of a citation in one or more of the following manners: certified letter, personal service, or by placing a notice on the windshield or other readily visible location on the vehicle. In the absence of the erection of an official traffic-control device, § 252-51A and B, shall not be enforced by citation unless a notice of the restriction and the violation thereof has been issued to the owner or operator of the vehicle by any of the means set forth herein prior to the date and time enforcement by citation is initiated.
Any person who shall violate any provision of § 252-51 shall be guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs of prosecution or, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Each day during which a violation of this article occurs shall be deemed a separate violation.
