[Added 1-21-1992 by Ord. No. 293]
The owner or other person in charge or possession
of any property or private parking lot on which a vehicle is parked
or left unattended in violation of the provisions of § 353
of the Vehicle Code (75 Pa. C.S.A. § 3353) may remove or
have removed the vehicle at the reasonable expense of the owner of
the vehicle; and the person who removes the said vehicle shall have
a lien against the owner of the vehicle in the amount of the reasonable
value of the costs of removing the vehicle, provided:
A.
The property upon which the vehicle is parked or left
unattended is posted with public notice signs to notify the public
of any parking restrictions.
B.
The operator of the vehicle violates such posted restrictions.
C.
The legend on the public notice signs posted on the
property indicates the name and address of the owner of the property,
the parking restrictions, a warning that a vehicle left in violation
of the restriction may be towed away, the name and address of the
towing company or person, the name and address of the place where
the vehicle will be towed and stored, and the applicable towing and
storage charges.
D.
The public notice sign shall generally be erected
at each entrance to the private parking lot and positioned so as to
face traffic which attempts to enter the lot. If there are not designated
entrances such as when a lot has one or more sides continuously open
to a roadway, then one or more signs shall be erected so as to be
readily visible to an ordinarily observant driver.
E.
The size of the public notice signs shall be as follows:
(1)
The parking restrictions shall have a minimum height
of three inches, except signs erected at a distance of more than 75
feet from the entrance point shall have legend which is at least one
inch in height for each twenty-five-foot interval in the distance.
The stroke width of the legend shall be a minimum of 1/8 of the required
height of the legend.
(2)
All other required information shall have minimum
dimensions of 1/2 of the values required for the parking restriction,
but the height of the legend may not be less than two inches.
(3)
The gross surface area of each sign shall be eight
square feet.
F.
Signs which have application during hours of darkness
shall have a reflectorized sign legend or background and be positioned
so as to be illuminated by the headlight beams of entering vehicles,
or the sign may be illuminated during applicable hours of darkness
so as to be readily visible to an ordinarily observant driver.
Any person violating any provision of this article
is guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 or, in default thereof, may
be sentenced to the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.
