[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Haddon 12-15-1987 by Ord. No. 834. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Speed limit for vehicles — See Ch. 223.
The Township of Haddon hereby establishes this chapter to regulate the
speed of any railroad train through the boundaries of the Township of Haddon.
Since it has been determined that the appropriate safeguards as indicated
in N.J.S.A. 48:12-48 have not been established along any railroad line through
the Township of Haddon, it shall therefore be unlawful for any railroad train
or other railroad vehicle to travel on any railroad line which intersects
or runs through any property within the Township of Haddon at a rate of speed
in excess of 39 miles per hour. This prohibition shall extend to any railroad
company, whether governmentally owned and operated or privately owned and
operated, whose employee or agent shall drive the aforesaid railroad vehicle
through the Township of Haddon at speeds in excess of 39 miles per hour.
Any person, company or any other entity which shall violate any of the
provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not less than $1,000
or imprisonment for 90 days at the discretion of the Municipal Court Judge
of the Township of Haddon, or both, at the discretion of the Court.
This chapter is a penal ordinance and said chapter shall be enforced
by the police officers of the Police Department of the Township of Haddon.
