[Adopted 8-10-1936]
The definitions contained in the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania now in force or hereafter to be enacted shall apply
to and cover the provisions of this article.
No person shall cause traffic to be obstructed, interfered with
or annoyed, nor shall cause danger, annoyance, discomfort or inconvenience
to any person or injury to person or property.
When parking, vehicles shall be drawn up to the right-hand curb
and stopped not more than eight inches from the curb and parallel
thereto unless lines, arrows or other directions are applicable to
that particular place. To conserve parking space, each vehicle shall
be driven to within three feet of any other vehicle parked in the
immediate vicinity or to the limit of the position wherein parking
is permitted, and shall park within white-lined spaces when so marked.
Upon those streets which have been marked or signed for angle parking,
vehicles shall be parked at an angle to the curbing indicated by such
mark or signs and shall be within white-lined spaces when so marked
and the right front wheel shall touch the curb.
All parking within 25 feet from the curbline intersection of
streets in said Borough, or within 15 feet of any fire hydrant is
hereby prohibited.
No parking shall be permitted on Bridge Street between Main
Street and the River Bridge, except where designated by white lines.
No parking shall be permitted on the west side and east side of York
Avenue.
In addition to the other provisions and exceptions therein,
no vehicle shall be parked opposite a curb painted red by the Borough
nor where signs or marks are placed and maintained by the Borough
indicating the parking is prohibited.
No U-turns, that is, a reversal of direction, shall be permitted
between streets or alley intersections nor at the intersection of
Main Street and Bridge Street.
Unless specifically allowed by law or ordinance, no vehicle
shall remain parked in the highway or streets of the Borough for commercial
purposes or for the sale or exhibition of any article or for the storing
of the vehicle or property therein, or for any commercial purpose
wherein the parking of the vehicle becomes a means whereby the transaction
is affected or effected. This does not include the delivery of merchandise,
loading or unloading or the reasonable use of the highway for these
purposes.
The Mayor, or the Chief of Police, may with the assistance of
the Borough police or any employee for such temporary purposes, restrict
or prohibit all traffic or parking on particular streets, highways,
or parts thereof, where otherwise it would be permitted. Or may permit
traffic or parking on particular highways or parts thereof where otherwise
it would be prohibited, such temporary special occasions shall include
time allowed for painting of lines, parades, exhibitions, demonstrations,
celebrations, and other similar uses and like permission or prohibition
may be imposed or granted where special temporary uses are being made
in premises adjoining the highway wherein unusual uses of the highway
may be deemed necessary. No traffic shall interfere with the provisions
of this section.
The Street Committee of the Borough Council, the Mayor or the
Chief of Police, may from time to time, alter the manner of parking
on certain streets by changing from parallel to angle parking, may
designate a prohibited section where parking is not permitted, or
may restore parking privileges to places theretofore restricted from
parking, by the proper marking of said streets or the erection of
proper signs designating such permitted and prohibited uses. Whereupon,
such regulations shall be valid, effective and binding as though specifically
included in this article and violation of the same shall be subject
to the penalties hereinafter provided.
No person shall place any signs or paint any pavement or curbing
to regulate traffic in the streets and highways except under proper
municipal authority and after approval of the Street Committee, Mayor
or Police Department.
It shall be lawful for the police to place any pedestals, posts,
signs, lights or wires or other fixtures and apparatus under or over
the highways of the Borough by the direction of the Borough Council
or subject to its approval.
Any person, firm or corporation causing damage to be done to
any traffic light, traffic standard or other construction of the Borough
shall become liable to pay the damages caused thereby, and shall be
deemed guilty of having violated this article.
The Chief of Police or any police officer shall have the right
to remove any truck, if necessary, any vehicle obstructing traffic
or parked or standing in violation of any of the provisions of this
article. The charges for such removal shall be paid by the person
owning or in charge of the vehicle causing such obstruction or so
illegally parked.
Persons, partnerships, individuals or corporation, conducting
gas filling stations adjacent to the streets of the Borough, where
access to the pumps and appliances of said station are required to
be made over the sidewalks of the Borough, shall establish such safety
zones guarded by such curbs and other guards as shall be directed
by the Street Committee and the Borough Manager. The owners or operators
of such filling stations failing to comply with such instructions
for the safety of pedestrians using the sidewalks shall be subject
to have the entrance to their station blocked off by the Borough until
such instructions are complied with and shall also be deemed guilty
of the violation of the provisions of this article.
The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any
officer, traffic control device, sign, paint line or other mark indicating
the permissive use of the streets applicable thereto unless otherwise
directed by a police officer.
Whenever signs are erected indicating any street or part thereof
as a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle on such street or
portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business on such
street or having their residences within such closed area, and then
any said driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon any
said street or portion thereof.
No driver of any vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising
a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion
and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as such.
The driver of a vehicle shall not in any event or at any place
back a vehicle unless such movement can be made in safety.
The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or
building shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving on to
a sidewalk area or on to the sidewalk or upon the roadway and, upon
entering the roadway, shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles
approaching on said roadway.
Main Street, York Avenue, Bridge Street, east of Main Street,
and John B. Merrill Parkway, are designated as through-traffic highways.
All vehicles approaching these streets from any of the intersecting
streets or avenues shall come to a full stop before entering the line
of traffic on these through-traffic highways.
A.
All intersections
in the Borough where signs bearing the word "stop," lettered in accordance
with the Motor Vehicle Code, have been erected are designated as stop
intersections. All vehicles approaching said intersections shall come
to a complete stop before entering or crossing such intersections.
B.
The intersections
specifically described in this section (in addition to intersections
with the through streets established by this article) are hereby established
as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected in
such a position upon the first-named street as to face traffic approaching
the second-named street in the direction or directions indicated in
said schedule. Every driver of a vehicle approaching any such intersection
upon the first-named street, in the direction or directions indicated
in each case, shall come to a full stop before entering any such intersection.
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Stop Sign On
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Direction of Travel
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At Intersection Of
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William Street
[Added 4-4-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-2] |
Both
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Chestnut Street
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All persons parking in the designated parking spaces provided
by the Borough, outside the street limits, shall park within the designated
lines marked and shall not in any case permit any part of a vehicle
to extend outside such designated lines.
Upon conviction before a Magisterial District Judge having jurisdiction
over the Borough, any person, natural or artificial, who violates
any provision of this article relating to parking shall be guilty
of a summary offense and be sentenced to pay a not to exceed $600,
plus costs of prosecution for each offense and, in default of payment
thereof, shall undergo imprisonment in the Bradford County Prison
for a period not to exceed 30 days.
