A.
Words and phrases, when used in this chapter, except
for sections or articles to which different or additional definitions
apply, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code
(the Act of June 17, 1976, P.L. 162, No. 81), as amended, except that,
in this chapter, the word "street" may be used interchangeably with
the word "highway" and shall have the same meaning as the word "highway"
as defined in the Vehicle Code.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.
B.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
Includes New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
C.
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include
the feminine.
Although the streets in the Township run generally
in a northeast-southwest and northwest-southeast direction, for the
purpose of this chapter, Doylestown Road (Rt. 202), DeKalb Pike (Rt.
202) and Upper State Road and the streets running parallel or generally
parallel to these streets shall be deemed to run in a north-south
direction, and Horsham Road - Cowpath Road and the streets parallel
or generally parallel to Horsham Road - Cowpath Road shall be deemed
to run in an east-west direction. Bethlehem Pike (Rt. 309) will be
considered a north-south route.
All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent
nature shall be enacted as ordinances or as parts of ordinances or
as amendments to ordinances of the Township of Montgomery except where
the law specifically authorizes less formal action.
A.
The Chief of Police shall have the following powers
to regulate traffic and parking temporarily and in time of emergency:
(1)
In the case of fire, flood, storm or other emergency,
to establish temporary traffic and/or parking regulations; and
(2)
In the case of emergency public works or public events
of limited scope or duration, to restrict or prohibit traffic and/or
parking in limited areas for periods of not more than 72 hours.
B.
These temporary and emergency regulations shall be
enforced by the Police Department in the same manner as permanent
regulations. Any person who drives or parks a vehicle in violation
of any such regulation shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction,
shall be liable to the penalty set out in the law or elsewhere in
this chapter for a violation of that nature and, in case of a violation
for which no specific penalty is set out in the law or elsewhere in
this chapter, to a fine of $25 and costs.
The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time,
designate places upon and along the streets in the Township where,
for a period of not more than 90 days, specific traffic and/or parking
regulations, prohibitions and restrictions shall be in force and effect
and shall designate those locations by proper signs and markings.
Those regulations, prohibitions and restrictions shall be effective
just as if they had been specified in this chapter. No person shall
drive or park a vehicle in violation of any such regulation, prohibition
or restriction, and no person shall move, remove, destroy or deface
any sign or marking erected, posted or made by authority of this section.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be liable to the penalty set out in the law or elsewhere
in this chapter for a violation of that nature and, in case of a violation
for which no specific penalty is set out in the law or elsewhere in
this chapter, to a fine of $25 and costs, provided that the purpose
of this section is to allow for test and experimental determination
of the feasibility and desirability of permanent changes in the ordinances
of the Township relative to traffic and parking.
A.
The Township Manager shall have authority to close
any street or specific part of a street to vehicular traffic and to
place barriers or station flagmen at each end of the closed portion
while construction or maintenance work is under way or a special event
is being conducted on the closed portion.
B.
The Township Manager or Roadmaster shall have authority
to establish a restricted traffic area upon an street where construction
or maintenance work is under way and to station flagmen at each end
of the restricted portion. It shall be unlawful for any person to
drive a vehicle upon any such restricted traffic area at any time
when the flagman is displaying a sign directing that vehicle to stop
or is signaling that vehicle by a flag or other device not to proceed.
C.
Any person who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
ASSEMBLAGE
PROCESSION
For the purpose of this section, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A gathering of people without vehicles which interferes with
the movement of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on any street.
A group of individuals, vehicles, animals and/or objects
moving along a street in a way that interferes with the normal movement
of traffic. A "procession" shall not include a funeral caravan or
military convoy.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or participate
in any assemblage unless the person organizing or conducting the assemblage
first obtains a permit from the Township Manager, which shall be issued
without fee. Application for the permit shall be made at least one
week in advance of the day on which the assemblage is proposed to
be held, but in any case where a state-designated highway is proposed
to be used, application shall be made at least three weeks in advance
of the proposed date. The permit shall state the place where and the
date when the assemblage is to be held, the hour when the assemblage
may convene and the hour by which it shall have been completely dispersed.
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or to participate in any
assemblage unless the permit has been granted or at any time or place
other than that authorized by the permit.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or participate
in any procession unless the person organizing or conducting the procession
first obtains a permit from the Township Manager, which shall be issued
without fee. Application for the permit shall be made at least one
week in advance of the day when the procession is proposed to be held,
but in any case where a state-designated highway is proposed to be
used, application shall be made at least three weeks in advance of
the proposed date. The permit shall specify the date on which the
procession is to be held, the route to be followed by the procession,
the hour when and place where participants may commence to assemble
and form before the procession is under way, the time when the procession
may commence to move along its route and the time by which the end
of the procession shall have reached the end of the route of the procession
and the procession shall have been disbanded. It shall be unlawful
for any person to hold or to participate in any procession unless
the permit shall have been granted or under any conditions as to time
or route or otherwise than those stated in the permit.
D.
Any person who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
