Lancaster County sets no rule on painted curbs. The meaning of red, yellow, or other curb colors and who may paint them is controlled by each municipality's traffic code under Pennsylvania's local-authority power (75 Pa.C.S. §6109). Residents generally may not paint public curbs.
Curb-marking colors—no-parking, loading, fire-zone—are traffic-control devices, and only the governing municipality (or PennDOT on state highways) may install or authorize them under 75 Pa.C.S. §6109 and the Vehicle Code. Lancaster County does not own municipal streets and enacts no curb-painting ordinance. A resident who paints a public curb without authorization can face a municipal citation, and unofficial markings are not legally enforceable. If you want a curb marked or a color's meaning clarified, contact your city, borough, or township public-works or traffic department, not the county.
Enforced by each municipality; unauthorized curb painting on a public right-of-way can bring a summary-offense citation under the local traffic or property ordinance. The county issues none.
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