AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE NO. 15.


AN AMENDMENT TO AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING TRAFFIC AND PARKING REGULATIONS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THEIR VIOLATION.


     BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of 
Washington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and it is hereby 

ORDAINED and ENACTED by the authority of the same that Sections 4 
and l2 of Ordinance No. l5 as enacted on November 5, l970 are

hereby amended to read as follows:

     SECTION 4.

     H.  Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad 
         grade crossing;

     I.  Within any area reserved for use by firefighting, police 
         or emergency vehicles or related equipment whether on private

         property, public roadways or in shopping centers.

     J.  In any parking space marked and reserved for use by 

         handicapped persons whether on private property, public

         roadways or shopping centers unless the vehicle displays

         a handicapped person registration plate as issued by the 
         Pa. Department of Transportation or unless the vehicle

         displays a handicapped person placard as issued by the

         Pa. Department of Transportation.

     K.  In such a way that snow removal crews are hampered in their

         activities.

     L.  At any place where official signs prohibit parking.


  





   SECTION l2.  Penalty for Violation.  Any person who shall violate

any of the provisions of this Ordinance for which a penalty has not 
been set, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine 
of not less than Twenty-five ( $25.00) Dollars and costs of  

prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to 
be imprisoned in the County Jail for not more than thirty (30) days.

     Provided, however, that each owner or operator of a vehicle 
to which has been attached a notice that such vehicle has been parked 
in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance may, within 

seventy-two (72) hours of the time such notice of violation was 

attached to such vehicle, discharge and satisfy the penalty for such 
violation by paying the sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars to the Township

of Washington at the Washington Township Business Office during 

regular business hours or by mailing the sum of Five ($5.00) Dollars 
together with the notice of violation to the Township of Washington 
at the Washington Township Business Office at 954 Route 66, Apollo,

PA, l5613.  Each such owner or operator who fails to discharge and  
satisfy the penalty as above described within the seventy-two (72)

hour period shall then be subject to the fine and penalty imposed

by the Ordinance.

     The fines or payments of the penalty for violations of this 
Ordinance shall be deposited by the Township Treasurer into the 

Township General Fund.









     ORDAINED AND ENACTED into law this l4th day of January, l988.


                                      Leland T. Gill
                                      Chairman

                                      Burl L. Slaugenhaupt
                                      Vice Chairman

                                      Herbert J. Coulter
                                      Supervisor


Attest:

Audrey A. Saftner
Township Secretary