[Adopted 3-6-1939]
Borough of Towanda, PA
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2023-03-06
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 305 Vehicles and Traffic
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ARTICLE III Speed Limits
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Auditor
- Ch 9 Authority, Municipal
- Ch 12 Civil Service Commission
- Ch 30 Health
- Ch 39 Manager
- Ch 46 Planning and Zoning Commission
- Ch 51 Police Department
- Ch 58 Records
- Ch 70 Seal
- Ch 72 Shade Tree Commission
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 83 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 88 Animals
- Ch 95 Bicycles
- Ch 100 Building Permits
- Ch 112 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 117 Construction Within Fire Limits
- Ch 122 Contractors, Registration of
- Ch 128 Curfew
- Ch 142 Firearms
- Ch 147 Fireworks
- Ch 153 Floodplain Building Permits
- Ch 174 Insurance
- Ch 181 Loitering
- Ch 188 Music and Dancing
- Ch 195 Nuisances
- Ch 202 Outdoor Fuel-Burning Appliances
- Ch 214 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 217 Property, Vacant and Abandoned
- Ch 221 Rental Properties
- Ch 233 Secondhand Merchandise
- Ch 239 Sewage Disposal
- Ch 243 Sewers
- Ch 248 Shows, Exhibitions, Circuses, Etc.
- Ch 253 Solid Waste
- Ch 259 Street Naming and Address Numbering System
- Ch 264 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 271 Taxation
- Ch 273 Ticketing
- Ch 278 Transportation Companies
- Ch 284 Trees and Shrubs
- Ch 291 Unsafe Structures
- Ch 298 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 305 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 305 Art III Speed Limits
- § 305-38 Unlawful to violate speed regulations.
- § 305-39 Speed limit.
- § 305-40 Exceeding speed limit; violation.
- § 305-41 Violation and penalties.
- Ch 311 Vehicles, Unlicensed
- Ch 318 Water
- Ch 325 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A328 Police Pension Fund
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, whether
principal or agent, to violate or fail to comply with the following
regulations pertaining to speed of motor vehicles upon the highways
within the Borough of Towanda or to be a party thereto under the penalties
herein provided.
[Amended 7-5-1983 by Ord. No. 6-1983]
It shall be unlawful to operate or drive a motor vehicle upon
the streets or highways of the Borough of Towanda in excess of 25
miles per hour as indicated by official signs erected by Borough authorities
in compliance with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation regulations,
except upon such streets and highways for which a different maximum
speed may be designated by ordinance from time to time.
It shall be unlawful for any driver or operator of a motor vehicle
to operate said vehicle upon the highways of Towanda Borough in excess
of the speed limits fixed by act or acts of Assembly of Pennsylvania
now in force or hereafter to be enacted.
[Amended 7-5-1983 by Ord. No. 6-1983]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this
article, upon summary conviction thereof, shall be sentenced in accordance
with the penalties prescribed in the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.
