[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Honesdale 11-11-1996
by Ord. No. 552. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Park and recreation areas — See Ch. 147.
The following words or phrases, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
The same as those words and phrases as defined in the Liquor Code
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as from time to time amended.[1]
When used in connection with a container shall mean any container
which has been perforated in the case of a can or similar container or a container
on which the cap has been loosened or the cork displaced and the seal, if
any, torn or mutilated.
Any place to which the public has access, including any public street
or public sidewalk, the front of and the area immediately adjacent to any
school, parking lot, store, restaurant, tavern or other place of business.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 47 P.S. § 1-101 et seq.
It shall be unlawful within the Borough of Honesdale for any person
to drink liquor or malt or brewed beverages upon any public street, public
municipal parking lot, private parking lot open to public use or public park
or in any vehicle being operated or parked thereon.
It shall be unlawful within the Borough of Honesdale for any person
to have in such person's possession or in a vehicle under such person's
control any open container containing liquor or malt or brewed beverages upon
any public street, public municipal parking lot, private parking lot open
to public use or public park.
Any person who shall violate the provisions of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of
not more than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of
such fine and costs, shall undergo imprisonment for not more than 30 days.
