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Township of Douglass, PA
Berks County
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[Ord. 2009-3, 8/31/2009; as amended by Ord. 2012-03, 5/14/2012, § 1.A]
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 (T-488)
Entire length
25 mph
Birch Lane (T-486)
Entire length
30 mph
Cedar Lane (T-662)
Entire length
25 mph
Constitution Avenue
Entire length
35 mph
Creamery Road (T-481)
Entire length
35 mph
Creek Road (T-482)
Entire length
35 mph
Douglass Drive (T-702)
Entire length
40 mph
Edgehill Road (T-487)
Entire length
35 mph
Engelsville Hill Road (T-660)
Entire length
35 mph
Evans Road (T-481)
Entire length
35 mph
Fancy Hill Road (T621)
Entire length
35 mph
Garber Avenue (T-664)
Entire length
25 mph
Glendale Road (T-475)
Entire length
35 mph
Goose Run Road
Entire length
15 mph
Gristmill Road (T-482)
Entire length
35 mph
Hill School Road (T-473)
Entire length
30 mph
Levengood Road (T-661)
Entire length
30 mph
Locust Road (T-471)
Entire length
30 mph
Maple Avenue (T-665)
Entire length
20 mph
Mary's Lane
Entire length
15 mph
Oak Lane (T-443)
Entire length
35 mph
Old Douglass Drive (T-368)
Entire length
30 mph
Old Philadelphia Pike (T-703)
Entire length
35 mph
Pine Ford Road, West
Entire length
35 mph
Pine Ford Road, East
Entire length
35 mph
Poole Hill Road (T-475)
Creek Road (T-482) and Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
35 mph
Poplar Road (T-368)
Entire length
35 mph
Quarry Road (T-443)
Entire length
35 mph
Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
Entire length
35 mph
Redshale Road (T-481)
Entire length
35 mph
Spruce Lane (T-483)
Entire length
35 mph
Squirrel Hollow Road
Entire length
35 mph
Sunrise Lane, North and South (T-484)
Entire length
35 mph
Sunset Drive (T-483)
Entire length
35 mph
Thompson Drive
Entire length
20 mph
Trout Run Road (T-480)
Entire length
35 mph
Winding Road (T-482)
Entire length
35 mph
Woodside Drive (T-485)
Entire length
35 mph
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs. 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. 2009-3, 8/31/2009]
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:
Bridge or Elevated Structure
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs. 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. 2009-3, 8/31/2009]
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:
Street
Between
Direction of Travel
Maximum Gross Weight
Maximum Speed Limit
Required to Stop 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 and costs. 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. 2009-3, 8/31/2009]
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 Township, except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified, shall apply:
Park
Street
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(Reserved)
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs. 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. 2009-3, 8/31/2009; as amended by Ord. 2012-03, 5/14/2012, § 1.B]
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
Broadmoor Boulevard and Ben Franklin Highway
4-way signal
Quarry Road (T-443) and Ben Franklin Highway
4-way signal
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. 2009-3, 8/31/2009; as amended by Ord. 2012-03, 5/14/2012, § 1.F]
[Ord. 2009-3, 8/31/2009; as amended by Ord. 2012-03, 5/14/2012, §§ 1.C, .D]
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 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b), 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
Intersecting or Through Street
Direction of Travel
Apple Road (T-482)
Engleville Hill Road (T-660)
West
Birch Lane (T-486)
Winding Road (T-482)
East
Cedar Lane (T-662)
Squirrel Hollow Road
East
Constitution Avenue
Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
West
Creamery Road (T-481)
Winding Road (T-482)
West
Creamery Road (T-481)
Sunset Drive (T-483)
East
Creek Road (T-482)
Hill School Road (T-473)
South
Creek Road (T-482)
Manatawny Drive (SR-2036)
North
Douglass Drive (T-702)
Reading Avenue (SR-0562)
North
Edgehill Road (T-487)
Reading Avenue
South
Edgehill Road (T-487)
Poplar Road (T-368)
North
Engelsville Hill Road (T-660)
Farmington Avenue (SR-2040)
West
Evans Road (T-481)
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
West
Fancy Hill Road (T-624)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
East
Fern Drive (T-597)
North Sunrise Lane (T-484)
East
Garber Avenue (T-664)
South Sunrise Lane (T-484)
West
Garber Avenue (T-664)
Maple Avenue (T-665)
East
Glendale Road (T-475)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
West
Glendale Road (T-475)
Pine Forge Road (SR-2038)
East
Goose Run Road (T-477)
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
West
Grist Mill Road (T-482)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
West
Grist Mill Road (T-482)
Pine Forge Road (SR-2038)
South
Hill School Road (T-473)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
West
Hill School Road (T-473)
Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
East
Levengood Road (T-661)
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
West
Locust Road (T-471)
Grist Mill Road (T-482)
West
Maple Avenue (T-665)
Reading Avenue
North
Maple Avenue (T-665)
South Sunrise Lane (T-484)
West
Mary's Lane
Old Douglass Drive (T-368)
West
Oak Lane (T-443)
Township Line Road (LR-06204)
West
Oak Lane (T-443)
Old Douglass Drive (T-368)
East
Old Douglass Drive (T-368)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
North
Old Douglass Drive (T-368)
Ben Franklin Highway (LR146)
South
Peach Drive (T-663)
Engleville Hill Road (T-660)
East
Pine Ford Road, West
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
East
Pine Ford Road, East
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
West
Poole Hill Road (T-475)
Creek Road (T-482)
West
Poole Hill Road (T-475)
Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
East
Poplar Road (T-368)
Reading Avenue
South
Quarry Road (T-443)
Constitution Avenue
North
Random Road
Squirrel Hollow Road (T-432)
West
Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
Manatawny Drive (SR-2036)
North
Rattlesnake Hill Road (SR-2063)
Poole Hill Road (T-475)
North and South
Redshale Drive (T-481)
Birch Lane (T-486)
West
Redshale Drive (T-481)
Winding Road (T-482)
East
Redshale Drive (T-481)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
West
Spruce Lane (T-483)
Birch Lane (T-486)
East
Spruce Lane (T-483)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
West
Squirrel Hollow Road
Ben Franklin Highway (LR146)
South
Squirrel Hollow Road
Old Philadelphia Pike
South
Sunrise Lane, North (T-484)
Reading Avenue
South
Sunrise Lane, North (T-484)
Poplar Road (T-368)
North
Sunset Drive (T-483)
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
East
Sunset Drive (T-483)
Winding Road (T-482)
West
Thompson Drive
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
East
Trout Run Road (T-481)
Reading Avenue
West
Trout Run Road (T-481)
Douglass Drive (SR-2059)
East
Vale Drive (T-599)
North Sunrise Lane (T-484)
East
Winding Road (T-482)
Locust Road (T-471)
South
Winding Road (T-482)
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
East
Winding Road (T-482)
Sunset Drive (T-483)
North
Winding Road (T-482)
Greshville Road (SR-2042)
North
Woodside Drive (T-485)
Colebrookdale Road (SR-2065)
East
Woodside Drive (T-485)
Winding Road (T-482)
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. 2009-3, 8/31/2009]
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 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.
Yield Street
Through Street
Direction of Travel
Grist Mill Road (T-482)
Approximately 0.8 mile west of Locust Road
Eastbound and westbound traffic
Redshale Drive (T-481)
Approximately 0.8 mile west of Birch Lane
Eastbound traffic
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2009-3, 8/31/2009]
1. 
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 or its designee in writing of the Township.
2. 
Any person who violates an provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 2009-3, 8/31/2009; as amended by Ord. 2012-03, 5/14/2012, § 1.F]