City of Pottsville, PA
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2023-12-11
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The Code
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 210 Vehicles and Traffic
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Article IV Enforcement and Penalties
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Accounts and Finance, Department of
- Ch 5 Assessments
- Ch 9 Boards, Bureaus and Commissions
- Ch 10 Fire Prevention and Protection
- Ch 23 Health, Board of
- Ch 25 Hiring Practices
- Ch 27 Hospital Authority
- Ch 34 Library
- Ch 41 Officers and Employees
- Ch 44 Parks and Public Property, Department of
- Ch 46 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 52 Public Affairs, Department of
- Ch 54 Public Safety
- Ch 61 Streets and Public Improvements, Department of
- Ch 70 Wards
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 82 Alarm Systems
- Ch 84 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 87 Animals
- Ch 89 Attorney Fees
- Ch 92 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 95 Building Construction
- Ch 98 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 101 Construction Code, Uniform
- Ch 104 Curfew
- Ch 106 Donation Bins
- Ch 112 Electrical Standards
- Ch 116 Fair Housing
- Ch 119 Firearms and Fireworks
- Ch 121 Fire Prevention
- Ch 124 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 126 Food-Handling and Drinking Establishments
- Ch 131 Handbills
- Ch 133 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 137 Insurance
- Ch 144 Massage Parlors
- Ch 147 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 151 Noise
- Ch 155 Nuisance Properties
- Ch 158 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 164 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 167 Plumbing Standards
- Ch 169 Property, City
- Ch 170 Property Maintenance
- Ch 171 Property, Quality of Life Maintenance of
- Ch 172 Property, Sale of
- Ch 175 Property, Vacant
- Ch 176 Rental Property
- Ch 180 Sewers
- Ch 183 Shade Trees
- Ch 187 Solid and Fossil Fuel-Burning Equipment
- Ch 189 Solid Waste
- Ch 191 Space Heaters
- Ch 193 Stormwater Management
- Ch 194 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 197 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 201 Taxation
- Ch 204 Tobacco
- Ch 206 Utility Poles
- Ch 210 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 210 Art IV Enforcement and Penalties
- § 210-12 Compliance required; authority of police.
- § 210-13 Obedience to official traffic equipment.
- § 210-14 Damage to traffic devices, traffic tickets or summons.
- § 210-15 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 214 Water
- Ch 220 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A226 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A227 Intergovernmental Agreements
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
No person shall fail to comply with any lawful order,
signal or direction of a police officer.
B.
Police officers shall have the power and authority
to direct vehicles to proceed in a direction other than that in which
the operator intended to proceed lawfully, for the purpose of avoiding
or relieving traffic congestion, during emergencies, and to enforce
temporary restrictions incident to street repairs or improvements.
No person shall fail to comply with the indications
of any official traffic equipment, unless otherwise directed by a
police officer.
No person shall deface, damage, move, obstruct,
destroy, change the wording of, alter or otherwise interfere with
any traffic control device. No person shall deface, change the wording
of, discard, destroy or throw away any traffic ticket, notice or summons.
Whoever violates any provisions of this chapter
where another penalty is not provided shall, upon conviction thereof
before the Mayor or any Alderman of the City, be fined not more than
fifty dollars ($50.) and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment
thereof, shall be imprisoned not more than ten (10) days.
