[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Chadds Ford Township (formerly Township of Birmingham) as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
All-terrain vehicles — See Ch. 121.
[Adopted 2-5-1986 by Ord. No. 68]
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words shall, for the purpose of this article, have the meaning herein indicated:
A. 
Words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania,[1] as now in force, or as hereafter amended, enacted or reenacted, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
B. 
In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
A. 
A Supervisor and/or the Township Fire Marshal 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.
(2) 
In the case of emergency or to facilitate public works, or in the conduct of parades, processions or public events, to restrict or prohibit traffic and/or parking in limited areas for periods of not more than 72 hours.
B. 
Such temporary and emergency regulations shall be enforced by the Township in the same manner as permanent regulations. Any person who shall operate or park a motor vehicle in violation of any such regulations, or who shall move, remove, destroy, injure or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made to give notice of any such regulations, shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to the penalty set forth in § 125-4 hereof for a violation of such nature.
[Amended 12-29-1986 by Ord. No. 68A; 8-3-1988 by Ord. No. 68B; 4-4-1990 by Ord. No. 68C; 7-1-2004 by Ord. No. 103[1]]
No person shall park, leave unattended, stand or stop an attended motor vehicle at any time along the shoulder or side or within the right-of-way of any of the following roads or designated portions thereof. Such streets are hereby designated a tow-away zone and any Supervisor, Fire Marshal or any police officer may order a vehicle towed from such street in accordance with 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3353(a)(1)(x).
Name of Street
Side
Location
Brandywine Drive
Both
Entire length
Creek Road
Both
North of Baltimore Pike to the Township line
Oakland Road
Both
From Wilmington-West Chester Pike for a distance west of Wilmington-West Chester Pike
Station Way Road
West
Starting at Baltimore Pike proceeding south for a distance of 210 feet
U.S. Route 1 (Baltimore Pike)
North
From Wilmington-West Chester Pike for a distance of 1,000 feet
U.S. Route 1 (Baltimore Pike)
South
From Station Way Road east to Creek Road
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
West
From Baltimore Pike south to Ridge Road
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
West
From Oakland Road to Baltimore Pike
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
Any person, firm or corporation who violates or neglects to comply with any provision of this article or any regulation promulgated pursuant thereto shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine not to exceed $300, except that the maximum fine for failure to comply with § 125-3 hereof shall not exceed $10 for the first offense or $50 for any succeeding offense.
[Adopted 6-29-1986 by Ord. No. 70]
A. 
Words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania,[1] as now in force, or as hereafter amended, enacted or reenacted, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
B. 
The terms “curbline” and “curb,” as used in this article, shall mean the side boundary of a street, road or highway, including but not limited to a raised boundary of a side line.
C. 
In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent nature shall be enacted as amendments to ordinances Chadds Ford Township.
The Township Supervisors, State Police or Chadds Ford Township Police, if appointed, shall have the power to regulate traffic and parking temporarily and in time of emergency.
This article shall be enforced by the police officers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Township Supervisors, who are hereby given authority to direct traffic on the highways and intersections Chadds Ford Township in accordance with the provisions of this article and the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle or tractor upon any sidewalk in the Township; nor shall any person operate a motor vehicle upon or across any sidewalk except in order to gain access to or egress from a driveway or alley at such locations where the curb, if such sidewalk is curbed, shall have been properly cut down for the purpose.
[Amended 4-4-1990 by Ord. No. 70A; amended 5-1-1991 by Ord. No. 70B; 8-7-1991 by Ord. No. 70C]
A. 
The speed limit for all traffic along the highways or parts thereof described below is established at the rate of speed indicated, provided that there shall be erected, in accordance with the laws in such cases made and provided, signs thereon establishing a twenty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit zone:
Name of Highway
Speed Limit
(mph)
Location
Bullock Road
25
Extra length
Heyburn Road
[Amended 1-15-2004]
25
Entire length (from Baltimore Pike to Smithbridge Road)
Marshall Road
[Added 7-2-2044 by Ord. No. 129]
25
Entire length (from Route 202 to the eastern municipal boundary with Concord Township)
Station Way Road
25
From Creek Road to Baltimore Pike
B. 
Any person violating Subsection A is guilty of a summary offense under the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine and costs as specified in the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.
Traffic control signals shall be installed and operated at the intersection of those highways described below:
Intersection
(Reserved)
[Amended 8-7-1991 by Ord. No. 70C]
A. 
The highways or parts of highways described below are hereby designated as one-way streets in the direction indicated:
Name of Highway
Direction of Travel
Limits
Station Way Road
North
From Creek Road to Baltimore Pike
B. 
Any person violating Subsection A is guilty of a summary offense under Section 3308(b) of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine and costs as provided by the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a motor vehicle or tractor to make a U-turn on any of the highways or parts thereof described below:
Name of Highway
Location
(Reserved)
No person shall make a turn of the kind designated (left, right, all) at any of the intersections described below:
Name of Highway
Direction of Travel
Prohibited Turn
At Intersection Of
(Reserved)
All vehicular traffic shall keep to the right of the following structures or barriers located in the center of the specified intersections:
Structure On
(Name of Highway)
At Intersection Of
(Reserved)
The highways described below are hereby established as through highways, and the operator of every vehicle or tractor upon approaching any such highway at any intersection thereof (except for such intersections where there are now or shall hereafter be located official traffic signals) shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable distance, before entering any such through highway:
Name of Highway
Baltimore Pike
Brandywine Drive
Brintons Bridge Road
Creek Road
Bullock Road
Harvey Road
Heyburn Road
Marshall Road
Oakland Road
Ridge Road
Ring Road
Smith Bridge Road
Webb Road
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
[Amended 9-3-1997 by Ord. No. 70D[1]]
A. 
The following intersections in Chadds Ford Township (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 125-16) are established and/or reaffirmed as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected, or ratified if previously erected, in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the intersecting or through street) on the first-named street (the stop street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or stop street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall stop the vehicle as required by Section 3323(b) of the Vehicle Code, and shall not proceed into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street until he or she has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law.
Stop Street
Intersection or Through Street
Direction of Travel
Ardmoor Lane
Bullock Road
South
Atwater Road
Webb Road
West
Beechwood Circle
Ridge Road
South
Bellefaire Lane
Brintons Bridge Road
North
Bullock Road
Ring Road
East
Bullock Road
Creek Road
West
Buttonwood Drive
Ring Road
West
Carnation Lane
Harvey Road
East
Carriage Path
Bullock Road
North
Coopers Hawk Lane
Ridge Road
South
Dogwood Hill Land
Ring Road
East
Heyburn Road
Baltimore Pike
North
Heyburn Road
Ridge Road
North
Heyburn Road
Ridge Road
South
Heyburn Road
Smith Bridge Road
South
High Ridge Road
Ridge Road
South
Hillock Lane
Heyburn Road
East
Holly Tree Lane
Heyburn Road
West
Hunters Lane
Webb Road
North
Kelly Drive
Smith Bridge Road
South
Longview Drive
Summit Drive
North
Marshall Road
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
West
Oakland Road
Brintons Bridge Road
North
Oakland Road
Harvey Road
North
Oakland Road
Harvey Road
South
Oakland Road
Webb Road
North
Oakland Road
Webb Road
South
Pheasant Lane
Ridge Road
South
Ravens Drive
Ridge Road
North
Ridings Boulevard
Ridge Road
North
Ridings Way
Ridings Way
East
Ridings Way
Ridings Way
West
South Rocky Hill Road
Ridge Road
South
Southview Path
Wilderness Way
West
Spring Lane
Harvey Road
East
Summit Drive
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
East
Talley Ho Drive
Heyburn Road
East
Talley Ho Drive
Ridge Road
South
Top of the Oaks
Heyburn Road
West
Walnut Ridge Road
High Ridge Road
South
Wilderness Way
Smith Bridge Road
South
Wilderness Way
Southview Path
South
Woodland Drive (north)
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
West
Woodland Drive (south)
Wilmington-West Chester Pike
West
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, or such higher amount established by the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq., and costs.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The intersections described below are hereby established as yield right-of-way intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected in such a position upon the first-named highway as to face traffic approaching the second-named highway in the direction or directions indicated. All vehicles and tractors approaching any such intersection upon the first-named highway, in the direction or directions indicated, shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on the second-named highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time that the operator of such vehicle or tractor is moving across or within such intersection.
Yield Sign On
Direction of Travel
At Intersection Of
(Reserved)
The zones described below are hereby established as no-passing zones, and it shall be unlawful for any person driving a vehicle to pass any other vehicle which is proceeding in the same direction:
Name of Highway
Limits
(Reserved)