Township of Millcreek, PA Article X Traffic Signal Avoidance

§ 137-56 Driving across private property to avoid traffic signal, control device or intersection.

No operator of a motor vehicle shall cause said motor vehicle to travel across private property, including but not limited to any off-street parking area, private road or private drive, in an attempt to avoid either a traffic signal, a traffic control sign or device or an intersection in the direction of such operator's travel.

§ 137-57 Emerging from private property onto sidewalk, public street or state highway.

A. Unless otherwise directed by official traffic control devices erected in accordance with provisions of Subchapter B of Chapter 31 of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code (relating to traffic control devices), 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 3111 to 3115, the driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, public or private building, private road, private drive, driveway or other private property in a section of Millcreek Township not within an "urban district" as defined in 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 102 and subject to the provisions of 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3344 as may be amended shall stop the vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across the said alley, public or private building entrance, private road, private drive, driveway or other private property or, in the event there is no sidewalk area, shall stop at the point nearest the street to be entered where the driver has a view of approaching traffic.

B. This article is not intended to amend Section 3344 of the Vehicle Code. This article is intended to impose on operators of motor vehicles in all sections of the Township not an "urban district" the same duty to stop before entering onto a sidewalk, public street or state highway as is imposed in an urban district, so as to ensure a general duty to stop and a right-of-way in favor of persons and vehicles on sidewalks, public streets and state highways.

§ 137-58 Violations and penalties; enforcement.

A. Any person convicted of violation of this article by the Magisterial District Judge having appropriate jurisdiction shall pay a fine of $50, plus all costs of prosecution and all attorney's fees incurred by the Township in enforcement, in accordance with Chapter 48, Enforcement and Collection Activities, Articles I and II (Ordinance Nos. 96-8 and 96-9).

B. The fine prescribed for a second violation of this article and payable upon conviction by the Magisterial District Judge shall be $100. The fine prescribed for a third and all subsequent violations of this article and payable upon conviction shall increase by $50 for each subsequent violation.

C. Enforcement of this article shall be by action brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, and in accordance with 53 P.S. § 66601, as amended. All fines and penalties collected for the violation of this article shall be paid to the Township Treasurer.

D. This article shall be enforced by the Millcreek Township Police Department.