A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Speed Limit
(mph)
|
Location
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Boy Scout Road (T-427)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 east to Dick Road (State Route 3029)
| |
|
Bryson Road (T-457)
|
15
|
From Butler Township line, west to north, to east, to Butler
Township line (loop)
| |
|
Buttercup Road (T-429)
|
35
|
From Kriess Road (T-354) east to Butler Township line
| |
|
Buttercup School Road (T-975)
|
25
|
From State Route 68 southeast to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Camp Fatima Road (T-392)
|
35
|
From Shannon Road (State Route 3032) north to Boy Scout Road
(T-427)
| |
|
Church Hill Road (T-505)
[Amended 8-2-2023 by Ord. No. 101-23] |
35
|
From Lancaster Township line east to Crab Run Road (T-501)
| |
|
Connoquenessing School Road (T-330)
|
25
|
From State Route 68 west to private drive (turn-around)
| |
|
Crab Run Road (T-501)
|
35
|
From Lower Harmony Road (T-831) north to Kennedy Road (T-362)
| |
|
Cupps Road (T-566)
|
35
|
From Kriess Road (T-354) east to Butler Township line
| |
|
Double Road (T-541)
|
35
|
From State Route 68 northwest to Dick Road (State Route 3029)
| |
|
Eagle Mill Road (T-554)
|
35
|
From State Route 68 north to Franklin Township line
| |
|
Fassinger Road (T-394)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 west to Smalstig Road (T-340)
| |
|
Graham Drive (T-661)
|
25
|
From State Route 68 east to two culs-de-sac, north and south
| |
|
Kennedy Road (T-362)
|
35
|
From Franklin Township line southwest to Lancaster Township
line
| |
|
Kriess Road (T-354)
|
35
|
From Reiber Road (T-830) north to State Route 68
| |
|
Kriess Road (T-510)
|
35
|
From Fassinger Road (T-394) west to Lancaster Township line
| |
|
Little Creek Road (T-339)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 west to Lancaster Township line
| |
|
Lower Harmony Road (T-831)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 west to Lancaster Township line
| |
|
Maple Drive (T-663)
|
15
|
From Stevenson Road (T-425) northeast to Orchard Drive (T-664)
| |
|
Maplewood Drive (T-821)
|
25
|
From Winterwood Drive, north and south, to culs-de-sac
| |
|
Mirage Court (T-972)
|
25
|
From Sahara Drive (T-971) west to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Moose Road (T-421)
|
35
|
From State Route 68 east to Reiber Road (T-830)
| |
|
North Cherrywood Drive (T-822)
|
25
|
From Winterwood Drive north to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Nursery Road (T-551)
|
35
|
From Forward Township line northeast to Reiber Road (T-830)
| |
|
Orchard Drive (T-664)
|
25
|
From State Route 68 southeast to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Pine View Circle (T-976)
|
25
|
From Rose Haven Drive (T-667) west to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Powder Mill Run Road (T-450)
|
35
|
From Reiber Road (T-830) east to Butler Township line
| |
|
Ragan Road (T-433)
|
35
|
From Eagle Mill Road (T-554) west to dead-end
| |
|
Reiber Road (T-830)
|
35
|
From Connoquenessing Borough line northeast to Butler Township
line
| |
|
Riveria Court (T-973)
|
25
|
From Sahara Drive (T-974) east to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Rosehaven Drive (T-667)
|
35
|
From State Route 68 north to Shannon Road (State Route 3032)
| |
|
Sahara Drive (T-971)
|
25
|
From Cupps Road (T-566) north to Stardust Court (T-974)
| |
|
Smalstig Road (T-340)
|
35
|
From Lancaster Township line east to Fassinger Road (T-394)
| |
|
Smith Road (T-590)
|
35
|
From Powder Mill Run Road (T-450) south to Forward Township
line
| |
|
South Cherrywood Drive (T-822)
|
25
|
From Winterwood Drive south to cul-de-sac
| |
|
Stardust Court (T-974)
|
25
|
From Sahara Drive (T-971), east and west to culs-de-sac
| |
|
Stevenson Road (T-425)
|
35
|
From State Route 68 east to Kriess Road (T-354)
| |
|
Township Drive (T-702)
|
25 (not posted)
|
From Stevenson Road (T-425) south to private drive
| |
|
Upper Harmony Road (T-337)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 west to Lancaster Township line
| |
|
Welsh Bridge Road (T-360)
|
35
|
From Forward Township line north to Shannon Road (State Route
3032)
| |
|
White Oak Drive (T-662)
|
15
|
From State Route 68 south to dead-end
| |
|
Whitestown Road (T-431)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 southeast to Butler Township line
| |
|
Whitestown Road Ext. (T-431)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 west to Crab Run Road (T-501)
| |
|
Winterwood Drive (T-820)
|
25
|
From Butler Township line west to Maplewood Drive
| |
|
Woodlands Road (T-343)
|
35
|
From State Route 528 west to Lancaster Township line
|
B.
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.
A.
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 Elevated Structure
|
Side
|
Speed Limit
(mph)
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
B.
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.
A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Maximum Gross Weight
|
Speed Limit
(mph)
|
Location
|
Required to Stop Before Proceeding Downhill
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||||
B.
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.
A.
A speed limit of 15 miles per hour is established on all streets
and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated by the Township,
except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified,
shall apply:
|
Park
|
Street
|
Speed Limit
(mph)
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
B.
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.
A.
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)
| |
B.
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.
A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Prohibited Right Turn on Red Signal Onto
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
B.
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.
A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Limits
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Prohibited Turn
|
Hours
|
At Intersection of
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
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 left turn, at any time stated, both right turns and straight-across
traffic being prohibited:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Hours
|
Not To Make Right Turn Into or Travel Straight Across
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Location
| |
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
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:
|
Name of Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
Limits
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
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 § 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:
|
Name of Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 266-20) 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 Sign on
|
Direction of Travel
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|
|
Buttercup Road (T-429)
|
West
|
Kriess Road (T-354)
|
|
Camp Fatima Road (T-392)
|
North
|
Boy Scout Road (T-427)
|
|
Church Hill Road (T-505)
[Amended 8-2-2023 by Ord. No. 101-23] |
Southeast
|
Crab Run Road (T-501)
|
|
Crab Run Road (T-501)
|
North
|
Kennedy Road (T-362)
|
|
Crab Run Road (T-501)
|
South
|
Lower Harmony Road (T-831)
|
|
Crab Run Road (T-501)
|
North
|
Whitestown Road Ext. (T-431)
|
|
Cupps Road (T-566)
|
West
|
Kriess Road (T-354)
|
|
Eagle Mill Road (T-554)
|
North and south
|
Whitestown Road (T-431)
|
|
Fassinger Road (T-394)
|
South
|
Smalstig Road (T-340)
|
|
Kriess Road (T-354)
|
South
|
Reiber Road (T-830)
|
|
Kriess Road (T-510)
|
East
|
Fassinger Road (T-394)
|
|
Maple Drive (T-663)
|
Northeast
|
Orchard Drive (T-664)
|
|
Maple Drive (T-663)
|
South
|
Stevenson Road (T-425)
|
|
Nursery Road (T-551)
|
Northeast
|
Reiber Road (T-830)
|
|
Pine View Circle (T-976)
|
East
|
Rosehaven Drive (T-667)
|
|
Powder Mill Road (T-450)
|
West
|
Reiber Road (T-830)
|
|
Ragan Road (T-433)
|
East
|
Eagle Mill Road (T-554)
|
|
Reiber Road (T-830)
|
West
|
Kriess Road (T-354)
|
|
Reiber Road (T-830)
|
North
|
Moose Road (T-421)
|
|
Reiber Road (T-830) (except right turn)
|
Southwest
|
Nursery Road (T-551)
|
|
Sahara Drive (T-971)
|
South
|
Cupps Road (T-566)
|
|
Smith Road (T-590)
|
North
|
Powder Mill Road (T-450)
|
|
Stevenson Road (T-425)
|
East
|
Kriess Road (T-354)
|
|
Township Road (T-702)
|
North
|
Stevenson Road (T-425)
|
|
Whitestown Road (T-431)
|
East
|
Eagle Mill Road (T-554)
|
|
Whitestown Road (T-431)
|
West
|
Eagle Mill Road (T-554)
|
|
Whitestown Road Ext. (T-431)
|
Northwest
|
Crab Run Road (T-501)
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 266-20) 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 § 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.
|
Yield Sign on
|
Direction of Travel
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|
|
Smalstig Road (T-340)
|
Northeast
|
Fassinger Road (T-394)
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
No motor vehicle including a motorcycle, pedalcycle or minibike shall
be operated on any property owned by the Township or any other public
agency or instrumentality within the Township without the permission
of the property owner and a permit from the Board of Supervisors of
the Township.
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following locations 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:
|
Location
|
|---|
|
(Reserved)
|
B.
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.
A.
The following areas upon the streets in the Township are established
as play highways:
|
Name of Street
|
Location
|
Days
|
Hours
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
B.
The Board of Supervisors is authorized to designate as play highways,
whenever it deems that action advisable, and for whatever period of
time directed by it, any part of any street in the Township where
sledding and coasting, shall be permitted. That play highway shall
be set apart for the purpose under the direction of the Board of Supervisors.
C.
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 Board of Supervisors
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.
A.
The following roads and streets within the Township are designated
as special snowmobile roads:
|
Name of Street
|
Location
|
Used by Snowmobiles Only When Closed to Vehicular Traffic
|
Shared With Vehicular Traffic
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile on any
highway, street or road in the Township other than as provided above.
Provided, nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from operating
a snowmobile on any other street in the Township:
(1)
As authorized by § 7721 of the Vehicle Code for emergency
and bridge crossings and for direct crossing of streets or two-lane
highways; or,
(2)
For special snowmobile events where authorized in advance and the
street is blocked off as provided in § 7723 of the Vehicle
Code. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall
be subject to the penalties prescribed in § 7752(a) of the
Vehicle Code.
