[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998; as amended by Ord. 684, 12/29/1999,
§ 1; by Ord. 701, 9/26/2001, § 1; by Ord. 737-06,
2/27/2006, § 1; and by Ord. 779-10, 8/9/2010]
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
| |
---|---|---|---|
Apple Street
|
Port Clinton Avenue and Maple Street
|
15 mph
| |
Chestnut Street
|
William Street West and the dead end
|
20 mph
| |
Church Street
|
Pine Street and State Street
|
25 mph
| |
Fifth Street
|
Franklin Street and Mountain Road
|
25 mph
| |
Fourth Street
|
Franklin Street and Route 22
|
35 mph
| |
Fourth Street
|
Route 61 and Windsor Street
|
35 mph
| |
Fourth Street
|
Windsor Street and Franklin Street
|
25 mph
| |
Franklin Street
|
Peach Alley and Park Road
|
15 mph
| |
Franklin Street
|
State Street and Fourth Street
|
25 mph
| |
Hawk Ridge Drive
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
Island Street
|
Peach Alley and Park Road
|
15 mph
| |
Mountain Avenue
|
Port Clinton Avenue and Fifty Street
|
40 mph
| |
North Fourth Street
|
I-78 and Franklin Street
|
25 mph
| |
Park Road
|
Island Street and Lock Alley
|
15 mph
| |
Peach Alley
|
Lock Alley and State Street
|
15 mph
| |
Pine Street
|
Except that area of Pine Street where it crosses the Kaercher
Creek Bridge as posted
|
20 mph
| |
Pine Street
|
Fourth Street and east Borough line
|
25 mph
| |
Port Clinton Avenue
|
Fourth Street and Borough line
|
25 mph
| |
Primrose Street
|
Foundry Street and Maple Street
|
15 mph
| |
Primrose Street
|
Franklin Street and Pine Street
|
15 mph
| |
South Fourth Street
|
Windsor Street and Maple Street
|
25 mph
| |
State Street
|
Belmont Avenue and east Borough line
|
35 mph
| |
State Street
|
Schuylkill Bridge And Second Street
|
25 mph
| |
State Street
|
Second Street and Belmont Avenue
|
25 mph
| |
Third Street
|
Port Clinton Avenue and Maple Street
|
25 mph
| |
Washington Street
|
Front Street east to South Third Street
|
20 mph
| |
Windsor Street
|
Third Street and east Borough line
|
25 mph
|
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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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:
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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:
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
1.
A speed limit of 15 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:
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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
| |
---|---|---|
Fourth and Pine Street
|
—
| |
Fourth Street and Route 61
| ||
Fourth Street and State Street
|
—
| |
Fourth Street, Entrance off Route 61 southbound
| ||
Station Road and Route 61
| ||
Third Street and Pine Street
|
—
| |
Third Street and State Street
|
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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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:
Street on Which Turn on Red is Prohibited
|
Through Street
|
Hours when Prohibited
| |
---|---|---|---|
Fourth Street (both directions)
|
State Street
|
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
| |
State Street (both directions)
|
Fourth Street
|
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
| |
State Street (both directions)
|
Third Street
|
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
| |
Third Street (both directions)
|
State Street
|
6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
|
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. 680, 12/28/1998; as amended by Ord. 731-05, 6/13/2005,
§ 2; and by Ord. 790-11, 11/14/2011]
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
| |
---|---|---|---|---|
Franklin Street
|
Fourth Street
|
Park Road
|
West
| |
Lemon Alley
|
South Third Street
|
Apple Alley
|
West
| |
Locke Alley
[Added by Ord. No. 847-2019, 6/24/2019] |
Port Clinton Avenue
|
Park Road
|
West
| |
Peach Alley
|
State Street
|
Washington Street
|
South
| |
Railroad Street
|
Washington Street
|
Pine Street
|
North
| |
Schuylkill Avenue
|
Inception
|
Front Street
|
West
| |
Second Street
|
Washington Street
|
Pine Street
|
South
| |
Shomo's Alley
[Repealed by Ord. No. 840-18, 8/27/2018] |
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
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
|
Not to Make
|
Into
|
When
|
Vehicles Applicable To
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Interior roadway and exiting Hamburg Area School District parking
lot (701 Windsor Street)
[Added by Ord. No. 850-2019, 9/23/2019] |
South
|
Left turn
|
Windsor Street
|
Between 6:45 a.m. and 9:45 a.m., school days
|
Any
|
Old U.S. 22 aka State Street
[Added by Ord. No. 869-2022, 11/22/2022] |
West
|
Left turn
|
South Fourth Street
|
At all times
|
Vehicles with three or more axles
|
North Fourth Street
[Added by Ord. No. 869-2022, 11/22/2022] |
North
|
Right turn
|
Old U.S. 22 aka State Street
|
At all times
|
Vehicles with three or more axles
|
North Third Street
[Added by Ord. No. 861-2021, 9/27/2021] |
North
|
Right turn
|
Port Clinton Avenue
|
At all times
|
Vehicles with three or more axles
|
Port Clinton Avenue
[Added by Ord. No. 861-2021, 9/27/2021] |
West
|
Left turn
|
North Third Street
|
At all times
|
Vehicles with three or more axles
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $250 and not
more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine
and costs, to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
[Amended by Ord. No. 861-2021, 9/27/2021]
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
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 left turn, at any time stated, both right turns and straight-across
traffic being prohibited:
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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:
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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:
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
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 §§ 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
|
Between
|
---|---|
Fifth Street
|
Franklin Street and Mountain Avenue
|
Fourth Street
|
Route 22 and Route 61
|
Franklin Street
|
Fourth Street and State Street
|
Pine Street
|
Second Street and east Borough line
|
Port Clinton Avenue
|
Fourth and Franklin Streets and Schuylkill County line
|
State Street
|
Front Street and Franklin Street
|
Third Street
|
Port Clinton Avenue and Maple Street
|
Windsor Street
|
Fourth Street and Windsor Township line
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998; as amended by Ord. 683, 9/13/1999,
§ 1; and by Ord. 829-17, 11/27/2017]
1.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-212) 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
|
Intersection or Through Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
---|---|---|
Arch Street
|
South Fifth Street
|
East and West
|
Arch Street
|
South Seventh Street
|
East
|
Arthur Street
|
Church Street
|
West
|
Catherine Street
|
Church Street
|
West
|
Chestnut Street
|
William Street
|
East and West
|
Chew Street
|
Poplar Street
|
North
|
Chew Street
|
Spruce Street
|
South
|
Elm Street
|
North Crescent Street
|
West
|
Elm Street
|
North Fourth Street
|
East
|
Fairview Avenue
|
Franklin Street
|
South
|
Fifth Street
|
Maple Street
|
South
|
Fourth Street
|
Chestnut Street
|
South
|
Fourth Street
|
Poplar Street
|
North
|
Fourth Street
|
Route 61
|
West
|
Franklin Street
|
Fourth Street
|
East and West
|
Franklin Street
|
Park Road
|
West
|
Franklin Street
|
Peach Alley
|
West
|
Franklin Street
|
State Street
|
East
|
Front Street
|
Grand Street
|
South
|
Front Street
|
Pine Street
|
North
|
Front Street
|
Pine Street
|
South
|
Front Street
|
State Street
|
North
|
Girard Avenue
|
Belmont Avenue
|
West
|
Girard Avenue
|
Fairview Avenue
|
East
|
Girard Avenue
|
Fairview Avenue
|
West
|
Grand Street
|
Front Street
|
West
|
Grand Street
|
Second Street
|
East and West
|
Grape Alley
|
Apple Alley
|
West
|
Hillside Drive North and South
|
South Seventh Street
|
East and West
|
Hillside Drive, North
|
South Seventh Street
|
West
|
Island Street
|
Fifth Street
|
East and West
|
Island Street
[Added by Ord. No. 860-2021, 7/26/2021] |
North Third Street
|
East and West
|
Island Street
|
Peach Alley
|
East
|
Island Street
|
Peach Alley
|
West
|
Island Street
|
Second Street
|
East and West
|
Locke Alley
|
Peach Alley
|
East and West
|
Maple Street
|
South Seventh Street
|
East
|
Maple Street
|
South Third Street
|
West
|
North Crescent Avenue
|
North Fifth Street
|
East
|
North Crescent Avenue
|
Poplar Street
|
North
|
North Crescent Street
|
Poplar Street
|
North
|
North Fifth Street
|
Island Street
|
North
|
North Fifth Street
|
Island Street
|
South
|
North Fifth Street
|
Mountain Avenue
|
North
|
North Fourth Street
|
Poplar Street
|
North
|
North Fourth Street
|
South Crescent Avenue
|
North and South
|
North Second Street
|
Island Street
|
North
|
North Second Street
|
Island Street
|
North
|
North Third Street
[Added by Ord. No. 860-2021, 7/26/2021] |
Island Street
|
North and South
|
North Turner Street
|
Poplar Street
|
North
|
Northmont Avenue
|
Chestnut Street
|
North
|
Northmont Avenue
|
Fourth Street
|
East
|
Peach Alley
|
Franklin Street
|
North and South
|
Peach Alley
|
Island Street
|
North and South
|
Peach Alley
|
Washington Street
|
South
|
Pear Alley
|
Church Street
|
West
|
Pine Street
|
Front Street
|
West
|
Port Clinton Avenue
|
North Third Street
|
East and West
|
Second Street
|
Pine Street
|
North and South
|
Second Street
|
Washington Street
|
West
|
Service Road
|
Fifth Street
|
West
|
South Cresent Avenue
|
North Fourth Street
|
East and West
|
South Seventh Street
|
Arch Street
|
3 way
|
South Third Street
[Added by Ord. No. 860-2021, 7/26/2021] |
Walnut Street
|
North and South
|
South Third Street
[Added by Ord. No. 841-18, 11/26/2018] |
Windsor Street
|
North and South
|
South Turner Street
|
North Fourth Street
|
East
|
Spruce Street
|
Fourth Street
|
East and West
|
Spruce Street
|
North Crescent Street
|
West
|
Third Street
|
Grand Street
|
North and South
|
Third Street
|
Maple Street
|
North
|
Walnut Street
|
Second Street
|
West
|
Walnut Street
[Added by Ord. No. 860-2021, 7/26/2021] |
South Third Street
|
East and West
|
Washington Street
|
Front Street
|
West
|
Washington Street
|
Second Street
|
East and West
|
William Street
|
Chestnut Street
|
South
|
Windsor Street
|
Fourth Street
|
East and West
|
Windsor Street
|
Third Street
|
East and West
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
1.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-212) 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.
(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. 680, 12/28/1998]
1.
No motor vehicle including a motorcycle, pedalcycle or minibike shall
be operated on any property owned by the Borough or any other public
agency or instrumentality within the Borough without the permission
of the property owner and a permit from the Borough Manager of the
Borough.
2.
Any person who violates an provision of this Section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 680, 12/28/1998]
1.
The following areas upon the streets in the Borough are established
as play highways:
(Reserved)
|
2.
The Borough Manager 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 Borough Manager.
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 Borough Manager
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. 680, 12/28/1998]
1.
The following roads and streets within the Borough are designated
as special snowmobile roads:
(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 § 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 § 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.