[Amended 12-2-1996 by Ord. No. 3-96]
A.
BARRICADE
PERSON
ROADWAY
SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTES
SNOW MEASUREMENT
SNOW TIRES
STREET or HIGHWAY
TIRE CHAINS
Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following definitions
shall prevail:
Any object visible for a distance of 100 feet in clear weather
that is used to block off an area of a street or highway.
Includes any natural person, firm, company, partnership,
association or corporation.
That portion of a street or highway improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
Those streets marked as such in accordance with the provisions
of this article.
The average of three or more readings in any area established
by the Mayor, his designee, or the Chief of Police.
Any tires mounted on drive wheels of motor vehicles which
are especially designed by tire manufacturers to give effective traction
on snow-, mud- or ice-covered streets by means of extra heavy duty
treads with special high-traction patterns, except that no tires so
defined shall be construed to be a snow tire if it is worn to less
than 3/16 inch of tread depth or is damaged or worn to the extent
that its performance would be substantially impaired.
The entire width between curbs or boundary lines of every
way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of
the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
Any hard metal chains mounted on drive wheel tires of motor
vehicles which cross the tread of each such tire laterally in at least
eight different places.
B.
Declarations of Mayor.
(1)
The Mayor or his designee shall cause each declaration made by him
pursuant to this article to be publicly announced by means of simultaneous
broadcasts from all of the radio stations WEEU, WBYN, WPAZ and WFMZ
or any other radio station with a normal operating range covering
the Borough. The Mayor or his designee may also cause such declaration
to be further announced in newspapers of general circulation in the
Borough, when feasible. A parking prohibition declared by the Mayor
or his designee shall not go into effect until at least two hours
after it has been announced at least two times between 6:00 a.m. and
11:00 p.m., in accordance with this section.
(2)
The Mayor or his designee shall make or cause to be made a record
of each time and date when any declaration is announced to the public
in accordance with this section.
C.
Termination of parking prohibition by Mayor or his designee. Whenever
the Mayor or his designee shall find that some or all of the conditions
which give rise to a parking prohibition in effect pursuant to this
article no longer exist, he shall declare the prohibition terminated,
in whole or in part, in the same manner prescribed by this article
for declaration of an emergency, effective immediately upon announcement.
D.
Provisions temporarily effective to take precedence. Any provision
of this article which becomes effective by declaration of the Mayor
or his designee, or upon the occurrence of certain weather conditions
shall, while temporarily in effect, take precedence over other conflicting
provisions of law normally in effect, except that it shall not take
precedence over provisions of law relating to traffic accidents, emergency
travel of authorized emergency vehicles or emergency traffic directions
by a police officer.
[Amended 12-2-1996 by Ord. No. 3-96]
A.
Whenever the Mayor, Council President or Borough Manager finds, on
the basis of falling snow, sleet or freezing rain, or on the basis
of a forecast by the United States Weather Bureau or other weather
service of snow, sleet or freezing rain, that weather conditions will
make it necessary that motor vehicle traffic be expedited and that
parking or standing on Borough streets be prohibited or restricted
for snowplowing and other purposes, the Mayor shall put into effect
a parking prohibition on parts of or all snow emergency routes as
necessary by declaring it in a manner prescribed in this article.
B.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A hereof, a parking prohibition shall automatically go into effect on any part of any snow emergency route on which there has been an accumulation of snow and/or ice of six inches or more.
C.
Once in effect, a prohibition under this section shall remain in
effect for 24 hours, unless extended by the Mayor or his designee
for an additional period or periods of 24 hours each, except that
any street area which has become substantially clear of snow and ice
from curb to curb for the length of the entire block shall be automatically
excluded therefrom. While the prohibition is in effect, no person
shall park or allow to remain parked any vehicle on any portion of
a snow emergency route to which it applies. However, nothing in this
section shall be construed to permit parking at any time or place
where it is forbidden by any other provision of law.
D.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a snow emergency route
for which a snow emergency declaration is in effect unless the vehicle
is equipped with tire chains or snow tires.
E.
No person operating a motor vehicle on a part of a snow emergency
route for which a snow emergency declaration is in effect shall allow
such vehicle to become stalled because the motor fuel supply is exhausted
or the battery has become inoperative.
F.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a snow emergency route
for which a snow emergency declaration is in effect if said vehicle
does not have all windows clear of snow and ice.
G.
No person shall operate a motorcycle, motor scooter, bicycle or other
unlicensed vehicle or mode of transportation on a snow emergency route
for which a snow emergency declaration is in effect.
H.
Removing and impounding of vehicles. Members of the Police Department
are hereby authorized to remove or have removed a vehicle from a street
when:
(1)
The vehicle is parked on a part of a snow emergency route on which
a parking prohibition is in effect.
(2)
The vehicle is stalled on a snow emergency route for which there
is a snow emergency declaration in effect and the person responsible
therefor does not promptly remove it.
(3)
The vehicle is parked in violation of any parking ordinance or provision
of law and is interfering with or about to interfere with snow removal
operations.
[Amended 12-2-1996 by Ord. No. 3-96]
A.
The streets or parts of streets described in Schedule XVII (§ 184-54), attached to and made a part of this chapter, are hereby designated as snow emergency routes.
B.
On each street designated by this article as a snow emergency route,
the Borough shall post special signs, one in each block with the wording:
SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTE, NO PARKING DURING EMERGENCY, TOW AWAY ZONE or
other such wording as shall be approved by the Department of Transportation
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These signs shall be plainly
readable to persons travelling on the street or highway.
C.
Any one of the following persons, the Mayor, his designee or the
Chief of Police, shall have the authority to barricade any street
(including streets which are not snow emergency routes) and redirect
traffic whenever necessary to plow, clear or otherwise remove snow.
It shall be unlawful for any person to bypass or run through or over
any such barricade.
D.
Borough-controlled or -operated equipment is permitted to operate
in any direction on any street at any time upon orders of the Mayor,
his designee or the Chief of Police.
[Amended 12-2-1996 by Ord. No. 3-96]
A.
If, at any time during a period of snow emergency declared under this article, a person shall park a motor vehicle or allow a motor vehicle to remain parked anywhere upon a snow emergency route, that person shall be guilty of a violation of this section and, upon conviction, shall be punishable as provided in § 184-25 of this chapter.
B.
If, at any time during a period of snow emergency declared under this article, a person shall drive a motor vehicle upon a snow emergency route without having that vehicle equipped with snow tires or chains, or otherwise violate this article (except as provided in Subsection A of this section), that person shall be guilty of a violation of this section and, upon conviction, shall be punishable as provided in § 184-37 of this chapter.
C.
Whenever any motor vehicle is found parked or left in violation of
any provision of this article, notice of such violation shall be given
in the manner provided by the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code.
D.
In any prosecution with regard to a vehicle parked or left in a place
or in a condition in violation of any provision of this article, proof
that the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked
or left in violation of a provision of this article, together with
proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the time the
registered owner of such vehicle, shall constitute prima facie evidence
that the defendant was the person who parked or left the vehicle in
violation of this article.
