[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991; as amended by Ord. 445, 6/6/1994, § 1;
and by Ord. 448, 11/7/1994, § 1]
1.
Maximum speed limits are established on portions of specified streets,
as follows, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle,
on any part of a street where a maximum speed limit applies, at a
higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that part of the street:
|
Street
|
Between
|
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Hirst Avenue and Long Lane
|
15
| |
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Long Lane and Baltimore Pike
|
15
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding
the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay
an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five
miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
Maximum speed limits are established, as follows, on certain bridges
and elevated structures, and it shall be unlawful for any person to
drive a vehicle on any such bridge or elevated structure, at a higher
speed than the maximum prescribed for that bridge or elevated structure:
|
Bridge or Maximum Speed Elevated Structure
|
Location
|
Limit
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding
the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay
an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five
miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following are declared to be hazardous grades, and, upon any
such hazardous grade, no person shall drive a vehicle, having a gross
weight in excess of that referred to for that grade, in the direction
stated for that grade, at a speed in excess of that established in
this section for that grade, and, if so stated for a particular grade,
the driver of every such vehicle shall stop the vehicle before proceeding
downhill:
|
Street
|
Between
|
Direction of Travel
|
Maximum Gross Weight
|
Maximum Speed Limit
|
Required to Stop Before Proceeding Downhill
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding
the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay
an additional fine of $2 for each mile in excess of five miles per
hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
A speed limit of 35 miles per hour is established on all streets
and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated by the Borough,
except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified,
shall apply:
|
Park
|
Street
|
Location
|
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. Any person exceeding
the maximum speed limit by more than five miles per hour shall pay
an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five
miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
At the following locations, traffic signals as indicated below shall
be erected (or are ratified if previously erected), and traffic at
those locations shall be directed by those signals:
|
Location
|
Type of Signal
| |
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any traffic
signal shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following are established as intersections where drivers of vehicles
headed in the direction or directions indicated are prohibited from
making a right turn (or a left turn from a one-way street into another
one-way street) on a steady red signal:
|
Intersection
| |
|---|---|
|
Pembroke Avenue & Church Lane
|
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who violates any provision of this section
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following are established as one-way streets, and it shall be
unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any one-way street other
than in the direction established for traffic on that street:
|
Street
|
From
|
To
|
Direction of Travel
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Long Lane
|
Church Lane
|
Oak Avenue
|
Northwest
|
|
Oak Avenue
|
Long Lane
|
Church
|
South
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following are designated as rotary traffic islands, and every
vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only
to the right of the island:
|
(Reserved)
|
2.
Any person who drives a vehicle otherwise than to the right of any
rotary traffic island shall be guilty of a violation of this section,
and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991; as amended by Ord. 490, 6/11/2001,
§ 1]
1.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, of the type indicated,
traveling upon the first-named street at any of the following intersections,
in the direction or directions indicated in each case, to make a left
turn and/or a right turn into the second-named street, as indicated,
at any time when such a turn is prohibited by this section:
|
Vehicles Traveling on
|
Direction of Travel
|
Not to Make
|
Into
|
When
|
Type of Vehicle Applicable to
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Church Lane
|
North
|
Left
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
All times
|
Every vehicle
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon
the first-named street at any of the following intersections, in the
direction or directions indicated in each case, to make other than
a right turn, at any time stated, both left turns and straight-across
traffic being prohibited:
|
Vehicles Traveling on
|
Direction of Travel
|
Times
|
Not to make left turn into or travel straight across
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon
any of the following portions of streets, in the direction or directions
indicated for that street, to make a U-turn:
|
Street
|
Portion
|
Direction of Travel
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following are established as no passing zones, and it shall be
unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to overtake or pass another
vehicle or to drive on the left side of the roadway in any no passing
zone:
|
Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Between
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following highways are established as through highways, thus
authorizing stop or yield signs to be erected facing traffic approaching
every intersection with the through highway except for those intersections
with traffic signals, or with exceptions or modifications as indicated
below. Every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop or yield sign
authorized by this section shall stop the vehicle or yield right-of-way
as required by Section 3323(b) or 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, as
the case may be, and shall not proceed into or across the through
highway until he has followed all applicable requirements of that
section of the law:
|
Highway
| |
|---|---|
|
Baltimore Avenue
| |
|
Pembroke Avenue
| |
|
Emerson Avenue
| |
|
Long Lane
| |
|
Oak Avenue
| |
|
Church Lane
|
|
Glenwood Avenue; except where Glenwood Avenue intersects Lexington
Avenue, at which intersection all vehicles approaching Lexington Avenue
shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable distance, before entering
said intersection
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991; as amended by Ord. 434, 4/5/1993, § 1;
by Ord. 447, 11/7/1994, § 1; by Ord. 468, 1/13/1997, § 1;
by Ord. 469, 7/14/1997, § 1; and by Ord. 478, 9/13/1999,
§ 1]
1.
The following intersections located in the Borough are established
as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected (or
are 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 § 3323 (b) of the Vehicle Code, and shall not proceed
into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street
until he has followed all applicable requirements of that section
of the law.
|
Stop Street
|
Intersecting or Through Street
|
Direction of Travel
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Beverly Avenue
|
Long Lane
| ||
|
Beverly Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
| ||
|
Beverly Avenue
|
Baltimore Avenue
| ||
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Melrose Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Penn Boulevard
|
Four way
| |
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Wildwood Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Glenwood Avenue
|
Lexington Avenue
| ||
|
Glenwood Avenue
|
Lewis Avenue
| ||
|
Glenwood Avenue
|
Long Lane
| ||
|
Glenwood Avenue
|
Melrose Avenue
| ||
|
Hirst Avenue
|
Glenwood Avenue
| ||
|
Hirst Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
| ||
|
Hirst Avenue
|
Baltimore Avenue
| ||
|
Hirst Avenue
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Three way
| |
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Long Lane
| ||
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Baltimore Avenue
| ||
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Glenwood Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Lexington Avenue
|
Emerson Avenue
| ||
|
Lexington Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
| ||
|
Lexington Avenue
|
Baltimore Avenue
| ||
|
Lexington Avenue
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Lexington Avenue
|
Glenwood Avenue
|
Three way
| |
|
Long Lane
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Three way
| |
|
Melrose Avenue
|
Glenwood Avenue
| ||
|
Melrose Avenue
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Melrose Avenue
|
Baltimore Avenue
| ||
|
Melrose Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Oak Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
1 sign — one-way street
| |
|
Oak Avenue
|
Church Lane
| ||
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
Church Lane
| ||
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
Lewis Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Pembroke Avenue
|
Melrose Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Pembroke Avenue
[Added by Ord. 551, 10/10/2011] |
Oak Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Penn Boulevard
|
Glenwood Avenue
| ||
|
Penn Boulevard
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Penn Boulevard
|
Pembroke Avenue
| ||
|
Wildwood Avenue
|
Long Lane
| ||
|
Wildwood Avenue
|
Emerson Avenue
|
Four way
| |
|
Wildwood Avenue
|
Pembroke Avenue
| ||
|
Wildwood Avenue
|
Baltimore Avenue
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-213) are established as yield intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the through street) on the first-named street (the yield street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or yield street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall slow down or stop the vehicle as required by Section 3323 (c) of the Vehicle Code, and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.
|
Yield Street
|
Through Street
|
Direction of Travel
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following areas upon the streets in the Borough are established
as play highways:
|
Street
|
Between
|
Days
|
Hours
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
The [designated official] is authorized to designate as play highways,
whenever he deems that action advisable, and for whatever period of
time directed by him, any part of any street in the Borough, where
sledding and coasting, shall be permitted. That play highway shall
be set apart for the purpose under the direction of the [designated
official].
3.
No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon any play highway at
any time when that street shall be designated as a play highway, except
in case of emergency, with special permission of the [designated official]
or of the police officer in charge, who shall first clear that play
highway of all persons using it for the purpose for which it was set
aside. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall,
upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The following roads and streets within the Borough are designated
as special snowmobile roads:
|
Street or Road
|
Between
|
Used by Snowmobiles Only When Closed to Vehicular Traffic?
|
Shared with Vehicular Traffic?
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile on any
highway, street or road in the Borough other than as provided above.
Provided: nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from operating
a snowmobile on any other street in the Borough:
A.
As authorized by Section 7721 of the Vehicle Code for emergency and
bridge crossings and for direct crossing of streets or two-lane highways;
or
B.
For special snowmobile events where authorized in advance and the
street is blocked off as provided in Section 7723 of the Vehicle Code.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject
to the penalties prescribed in Section 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
No motor vehicle or motorcycle or minibike shall be operated
on any lands owned by the Borough or any other public body or agency
within the Borough, except on those lands specifically designated
for the operation of motor vehicles, motorcycles or minibikes by resolution
of the Borough Council.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
The word "pushcart", as used in this section, shall mean a vehicle,
other than a pedalcycle, propelled solely by human power, and used
or intended for use for the display, transport, exhibit or sale of
goods, wares or merchandise.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to propel a pushcart upon any sidewalk in any business district except as necessary to move the pushcart to a location from which it is to be loaded or unloaded or from which goods, wares or merchandise are to be sold or dispensed under permit from Borough Council as provided in subsection 3 of this section.
3.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a pushcart upon any sidewalk
except for the purpose of selling or dispensing from that pushcart
goods, wares or merchandise to passersby under permit from Borough
Council. Every such permit shall be issued to the person making application
for the permit, upon payment of a fee, which shall be for the use
of the Borough, of $100 for any calendar year, $50 for any six-month
period, or $25 for any three month period. The permit shall be granted
to the applicant, upon payment of the fee, and upon his signing an
agreement with Borough Council that he shall be bound by the conditions
imposed by Borough Council and made a part of the permit, dealing
with the following matters:
A.
Restricting or limiting the parking of the pushcart to one or more
stated locations upon the sidewalk and to stated days and hours at
each location.
B.
Stating requirements to be adhered to in connection with the disposal
of garbage and refuse resulting from the operations carried on.
C.
Requiring that there be no violation of any law, ordinance or regulation
pertaining to health, sanitation and the handling of food or drink.
4.
Any person who violates any provision of this section, or any condition
of any permit granted under this section, shall be guilty of a summary
offense, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of
$25 and costs.
[Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride on a sled upon any sidewalk in the Borough, or upon any roadway unless that roadway is on a portion of a street blocked off for sledding by authority of § 15-105 of Part 1 or § 15-216 of Part 2 of this chapter. Provided: nothing in this subsection shall prevent a pedestrian from pulling a sled, with or without a rider, upon a sidewalk.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in rollerskating or
to ride upon or propel any coaster or other toy vehicle upon:
3.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and costs.
