[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 1]
1.
Words and phrases, when used in this Part, shall have the meanings
ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq., as now in force or as hereafter
amended, enacted or reenacted, except in those instances where the
context clearly indicates a different meaning.
2.
The singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include
the feminine.
[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 2]
The Board of Supervisors is hereby granted power to regulate,
restrict and prohibit traffic and parking for limited times on the
rights-of-way of any state highway or Township road within the Township
of Lower Mount Bethel in the event of a snow emergency.
[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 3]
As used in this section, certain terms are defined as follows:
Any precipitation depositing any accumulation on the streets
and highways, including snow, sleet, hail, ice and freezing rain.
A state of highway condition that is hazardous and dangerous
to vehicular and pedestrian traffic and is so declared by the Roadmaster
of Lower Mount Bethel Township, or his designee.
[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 4]
In order to facilitate the movement of traffic and to combat
the hazards of snow and ice on the streets, roads, and highways of
the Township of Lower Mount Bethel, the Roadmaster, in his discretion,
may declare a snow and ice emergency, designated in this Part as a
"snow emergency." Information on the existence of a snow emergency
may be given by the Township through radio, newspaper or other available
media, and information on the termination or modification of the emergency
may be given by use of the same media.
[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 5]
1.
Upon declaration of a "snow emergency" it shall be unlawful, at any
time during the continuance of the snow emergency, for any person:
A.
To park or leave unattended a motor vehicle or any other obstruction
that impedes traffic, or to allow a vehicle or other obstruction to
remain parked or unattended anywhere on the roadways, streets, highways,
or rights-of-way on any state or Township road.
B.
To blow snow or deposit snow on the roadways, streets, highways,
or rights-of-way of any state or Township road.
[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 6]
Any vehicle parked, stalled, incapable of moving under its own
power or left unattended upon any roadway, street, highway, or rights-of-way
of any state or Township road during a snow emergency may be removed
or towed to any other location upon order of the Lower Mount Bethel
Township Roadmaster at the owner's expense.
[Ord. 1998-2, 2/18/1998, § 7]
Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this Part shall, upon conviction, be liable to and
shall pay a fine or penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $300
plus costs for every violation, for the use of the Township.
