Article 501
GENERAL REGULATIONS
Sections:
501.01 Definitions and interpretation.
501.02 Manner of adopting permanent traffic and parking regulations.
501.03 Temporary and/or emergency regulations.
501.04 Experimental regulations.
501.06 Authority of peace officers.
501.01 Definitions and interpretation.
(A) Words and phrases, when used in the Traffic Code of the City of Meadville, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania, as now in force, or as hereafter amended, enacted or re-enacted, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
(B) The term “legal holidays” as used in the Traffic Code of the City of Meadville shall mean and include: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.
(C) The term “vehicle code” shall mean the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania, 75 Pa. C.S. Section 101 et seq.
(D) The term “peace officer” shall mean and include any City of Meadville police officer and any other persons expressly authorized by the city manager or chief of police to enforce traffic or parking regulations of the City of Meadville.
(E) The term “highway” shall include street or way and vice versa.
(F) In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)
501.02 Manner of adopting permanent traffic and parking regulations.
All traffic and parking regulations of a permanent nature shall be enacted as ordinances or as parts of ordinances or as amendments to ordinances of the City of Meadville. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)
501.03 Temporary and/or emergency regulations.
The city manager shall have the following powers to regulate traffic and parking temporarily, and in time of emergency:
(A) In the case of fire, flood, storm or similar emergency, to establish temporary traffic and/or parking regulations in such areas and for such periods of time as reasonably required for such emergencies.
(B) In the case of all other emergencies or to facilitate public works, or in the conduct of parades, processions, public events, community projects, commercial promotions, and area celebrations or events, to restrict or prohibit traffic and/or parking in limited areas or streets for a period of not more than 72 hours.
Such temporary and emergency regulations shall be enforced by the city manager and the police department in the same manner as permanent regulations. Any driver or other person who shall operate or park a vehicle in violation of any such regulation, or who shall move, remove, destroy, injure, or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made to give notice of any such regulations, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $30.00 or more than $300.00 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than five days. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)
501.04 Experimental regulations.
For purposes of providing for the test and experimental determination of the feasibility and desirability of permanent changes in the ordinances of the City of Meadville relative to traffic and parking, the council of the City of Meadville may, from time to time, by resolution designate places upon and along the highways in the City of Meadville where, for a period of not more than 90 days, specific traffic and/or parking regulations, prohibitions and restrictions shall be in force and effect, and shall designate such locations by proper signs and markings. Such regulations, prohibitions and restrictions shall be effective just as if they have been specified in this section. Council in the same manner specified herein shall have the authority to extend the experimental regulation for an additional 60 days in the event sufficient data or information has not been received from said experimental regulation; however, in no event shall said experimental regulation extend beyond one 60-day extension of the original 90-day experimental regulation. No driver or other person shall operate or park a vehicle in violation of any such regulation, prohibition or restriction, and no person shall remove, destroy or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made by authority of this section. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $30.00 or more than $300.00 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than five days. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)
501.05 Funeral procession.
(A) No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as required in this article. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or police officers.
(B) A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a pennant or other identifying insignia or by such other method as may be determined and designated by the police department of the City of Meadville.
(C) No funeral procession or parade containing 200 or more persons or 50 or more vehicles, except the Armed Forces of the United States, the military forces of this Commonwealth and the forces of the police and fire departments, shall occupy, march or proceed along any street except in accordance with a permit issued by the city manager, and such other regulations as are set forth herein which may apply or except in accordance with such other regulations concerning parades and processions in the City of Meadville.
(D) Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not more than $50.00 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than 10 days. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)
501.06 Authority of peace officers.
The peace officers or police of the City of Meadville are hereby given authority to direct traffic on the highways of the City of Meadville, and to regulate parking on the streets, highways and other public places of the City of Meadville, and at intersections thereof. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)
501.07 Reserved parking fees.
Reserved parking fees at designated spaces shall be as follows:
(1) Covered parking space: $50.00/month.
(2) Uncovered parking space: $40.00/month. (Ord. 3794 § 5, 2021)
501.99 Penalties.
Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of the articles comprising the Traffic Code of the City of Meadville, for which a specific penalty has not been established, shall be sentenced, upon conviction, to the extent permitted by law, to pay a fine of not less than $30.00 and not more than $300.00, together with court costs and costs of prosecution. Upon default of payment of fine and costs, such person shall be imprisoned for a period not to exceed 10 days. (Ord. 3663 § 2, 2009)