[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the Borough of Sharon
Hill 12-28-1972 by Ord. No. 1019 (Ch. 84 of the 1972 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Public assemblies — See Ch. 110.
No procession or parade containing 10 or more vehicles or 20
or more persons not riding in vehicles shall occupy, march or proceed
along any street or highway at any time unless a license to do so
at that time has been obtained from the Borough Secretary. No person
shall take part in, aid, form or start any such procession or parade
unless a license for said procession or parade has been issued by
the Borough Secretary, and no person shall take part in any procession
or parade which is proceeding in a manner not in accordance with the
terms of such license.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:
A.
Processions or parades when all persons taking part therein are policemen,
firemen, members of the armed forces of the United States or of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or veterans of such forces, or officials
of governmental units.
B.
Processions or parades declared by resolution or motion of the Borough
Council to be a part of official Borough ceremonies.
C.
Students going to and from school classes or participating in school
activities, provided such conduct is under the immediate direction
and supervision of the proper school authorities.
D.
Funeral processions.
[Amended 5-24-2012 by Ord. No. 1359]
Upon application duly made not less than seven days (not counting
holidays or Sundays) prior to the proposed date of the procession
or parade, in such form as the Borough Secretary shall require, and
upon payment of a fee as set from time to time by resolution of the
Borough Council, a license for the procession or parade shall be issued
by the Borough Secretary five days (not counting holidays or Sundays)
after the application is made, unless:
A.
The procession or parade for which a license is sought would conflict
with another procession or parade for which a license is to be or
has been issued and for which application was made previous to the
application to be rejected.
B.
The procession or parade would conflict with a procession or parade
to which this chapter does not apply.
C.
The Mayor or Chief of Police shall advise the Borough Secretary that
the procession or parade for which a license is sought would endanger
the public health or safety or would be detrimental to the public
welfare.
D.
The procession or parade is to be held for the purpose of advertising
any commercial product, goods or event or is designated purely for
private profit.
The Borough Secretary shall promptly mail written notice to
the Mayor and the Chief of Police of any and all applications for
licenses under this chapter. If advised by either official that the
procession or parade for which license is sought would endanger public
health or safety or be detrimental to the public welfare, the Borough
Secretary shall promptly notify the members of the Borough Council
that he has been so advised and shall refrain from issuing the license
sought until directed to do so by resolution of the Borough Council.
Each license issued under this chapter shall specify the names
of the organizations participating, the name of the person (or, if
a committee without a chairman, the names of the members of the committee)
chiefly responsible for the marshaling and organization of the procession
or parade, the streets or highways through which it may move, how
much of these highways in width it may occupy and the hours during
which it may proceed.
No person shall drive any vehicle between the vehicles or persons
comprising a procession or parade proceeding in accordance with the
terms of a license therefor duly issued by the Borough Secretary when
such vehicles or persons are in motion and are conspicuously designated
as a procession or parade, nor shall any person unreasonably hamper,
obstruct, impede or interfere with any person, vehicle or animal participating
or used in such a procession or parade.
The Chief of Police shall have the authority to prohibit or
restrict the parking of vehicles along a highway or part thereof constituting
a part of the route of a procession or parade, and to cause signs
to such effect to be posted, and it shall be unlawful and a violation
of this chapter for any person to park or leave unattended any vehicle
upon any highway or portion thereof in violation of prohibitions so
posted along said highway or portion thereof.
[Amended 7-14-1988 by Ord. No. 1180]
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any of the
provisions of this chapter before any Magisterial District Judge shall
be sentenced to pay a maximum fine as provided from time to time by
state statute, together with costs of prosecution, or to imprisonment
in the county jail for a term not to exceed 30 days, or both.
