[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Manor Township 4-4-1983 by Ord. No.
1-83 (Ch. 1, Part 2C, of the 1985 Code of Ordinances).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 405.
There is hereby created a Traffic Commission, which shall consist
of the Chief of Police of the Township, the Supervisor in charge of
public safety, and the Road Supervisor.
All words used in this chapter which are defined by the Pennsylvania
Vehicle Code, Act of June 17, 1976, P.L. 162, as the same may be amended,[1] shall have the meaning and be defined in accordance with
the definitions contained in said Vehicle Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
The Traffic Commission shall have the duty, power and authority,
in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
with other provisions of this chapter, to regulate the flow and speed
of traffic and the parking of vehicles on the highways and streets
of the Township, and to adopt regulations to that end. Without limiting
the authority hereby given, the Traffic Commission is also specifically
authorized:
A.
Turning. To prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles at intersections
which it designates.
B.
Through streets and stop or yield signs. To designate streets as
through streets and to protect the entrances thereto with stop signs
or yield right-of-way signs.
C.
Bus stops. To establish bus stops for loading and unloading bus passengers
at the curb.
D.
Loading zones. To establish loading and unloading zones.
E.
No parking zones. To establish no-parking zones.
F.
Restricted parking zones. To establish restricted parking zones.
G.
Prohibit parking. To prohibit parking on the sides of streets which
it designates.
H.
Miscellaneous parking provisions. To provide certain miscellaneous
parking regulations.
I.
Traffic lanes. To establish traffic lanes at street intersections
in which vehicles shall move in accordance with the direction indicated
by such lanes when signs are placed giving legal notice thereof.
J.
Driveways. To regulate the opening of all private driveways leading
from any public street in the Township, including the right to withhold
or give consent to the opening thereof, to determine the size, location
and grade of the opening, and in every way to exercise complete control
and supervision in connection therewith.
K.
One-way streets. To designate certain streets for one-way traffic,
and to indicate the required direction of traffic thereon.
L.
Speed. To establish maximum and/or minimum speed limits on streets
which it designates after conducting an engineering and traffic investigation;
provided, however, that no maximum speed greater than 55 miles per
hour shall be so established.
M.
Restrict vehicles. To prohibit or restrict the use of highways or
streets at specified places by specified classes of vehicles whenever
the Traffic Commission determines that such portions of the highways
or streets may be seriously damaged by the use or movement of the
specified classes of vehicles or the movement of such classes of vehicles
would constitute a safety hazard.
N.
No-passing zones. To designate no-passing zones on specified portions
of highways and streets.
O.
Enforcement. To designate the hours of the day and the days of the
year when each of the regulations promulgated by the Traffic Commission
shall be in full force and effect.
P.
Traffic control devices. To erect, maintain and operate official
signs, semaphores, lights and other traffic control devices after
obtaining any approval of the Department of Transportation required
by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and after conducting
any traffic and engineering investigation when and in such manner
as required by regulations promulgated by the Department of Transportation.
Q.
No parking during or after snowfalls. To prohibit and/or regulate
the parking or maintenance of motor vehicles during or after the fall
of snow.
All regulations adopted by the Traffic Commission shall be read
at length at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors next following
the adoption of regulations by the Traffic Commission and shall become
effective without action by the Board of Supervisors, upon the day
following the meeting at which it is read, unless the Board of Supervisors
shall by resolution suspend or revoke said regulations.
