[Adopted 7-2-1951 by Ord. No. 21]
The terms used in this article shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101
et seq.
This article shall be administered by the Police
Committee of the Borough Council, and said Committee is hereby authorized
to purchase, erect, repair, maintain and remove all necessary official
traffic signs, signals, markings, equipment and devices.
The Police Committee is hereby authorized to
erect signs bearing the words "Through Traffic Stop" and "Stop" at
all intersections where, in the judgment of the Committee, the stopping
of vehicles from one or more directions is necessary for the safety
and convenience of the public.
The Police Committee is hereby authorized to
designate certain highways or parts thereof on which parking shall
be prohibited at all times.
No parking shall be permitted at any time in
front of any firehouse, or on any highway less than fifteen feet in
width.
The Police Committee is hereby authorized to
designate certain highways or parts thereof on which parking shall
be permitted only during certain hours.
The Police Committee is hereby authorized to
designate certain highways or parts thereof on which parking shall
be permitted only on one side.
All parking is prohibited on the highway in
front of schools, churches, theatres, banks, hotels, gasoline filling
stations, driveways and offices of physicians, but these restrictions
shall be in force only when the premises in question are being regularly
used for their proper purpose, or when other days or hours are conspicuously
posted. Vehicles may stop to load and unload in front of these premises
but they must give way to other vehicles arriving for the same purpose.
No operator of a burden vehicle shall stop such
vehicle on a highway in a business district, or obstruct any sidewalk,
for a longer time than is necessary to load or unload the same.
No person shall park a vehicle on any highway
for the purpose of selling the same, nor shall any vehicle be parked
on a bridge, a bridge approach, or in any underpass.
No vehicle shall be parked on any highway or
sidewalk for the purpose of washing, greasing or repairing the same
except in case of an emergency.
The Police Committee is hereby authorized to
designate certain highways or parts thereof on which traffic may proceed
in one direction only.
No person shall use voice or mechanical sound
effects for advertising purposes in a motor vehicle without having
first applied for and obtained permission from the Police Department.
The operators of motor vehicles and pedestrians
shall always follow the specific directions of police officers on
duty even though such directions, by reason of an emergency or some
other special condition, are contrary to the provisions of the Vehicle
Code or this article.
In all cases where a police officer shall first
give notice of any violation of this article by either handing to
the offending driver or affixing to the vehicle in question a ticket
on which he has noted the time and place of, and nature of the offense
charged, no prosecution shall be instituted for 48 hours thereafter,
and if, during said period, the offender shall voluntarily appear
at the office of the Police Department, voluntarily enter a plea of
guilty, and pay a fine of $1 to the Borough Treasurer, no prosecution
for said offense shall thereafter be brought.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $10 nor
less than $2 for each and every offense, to be collectible before
any District Justice of Delaware County as like penalties are now
by law collectible and, in default of the payment thereof shall undergo
imprisonment for not more than five days.
