[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of Wilkins as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 5-6-1968 by Ord.
No. 426 (Ch. 104 of the 1998 Township Code)]
[Amended 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917]
The Municipal Building of the Township of Wilkins shall be open
to the public for business on Monday through Friday, inclusive (excluding
legal holidays and other holidays as declared from time to time by
the Board of Commissioners), from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and at the
time during which any public Township meeting is being conducted.
The auditorium, lobby, restrooms and hallways are declared to
be the public portions of the building. The following portions of
the building are reserved and are not open to the public: the safe
room, the police communications room and adjoining office, the office
of the Police Chief, the Township Secretary or Manager's office and
adjoining typists' offices, the garage and the jail cells.
No person shall at any time without the permission of the Township Secretary or Manager enter into or upon the reserved portions of the Municipal Building as defined in § 266-2 hereof.
No person shall, without the permission of the Township Secretary
or Manager, remain in the Municipal Building after public business
hours (which shall be construed to include the time during which any
public Township meeting is being held).
The following actions are hereby defined as disorderly practices
and prohibited throughout the Municipal Building:
A.
Yelling, shrieking or screaming.
B.
Swearing at or threatening bodily harm upon any municipal employee
or official or any other citizen therein.
C.
Any conduct which has as its purpose or effect the harassment of
municipal employees to the end that they are distracted from their
duties and unable to properly perform the same.
D.
Interfering with the conduct of any public meeting of the Board of
Commissioners, the Zoning Hearing Board, the Planning Commission or
any other duly appointed board, commission or committee of the Township
of Wilkins by refusal to abide by the rules and regulations governing
the conduct of such meetings as adopted from time to time.
[Amended 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917]
[Amended 8-11-1980 by Ord. No. 661; 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917]
The following actions are hereby prohibited in and on any property
owned by the Township of Wilkins or the school lands of the Woodland
Hills School District, within the Township of Wilkins, including but
not limited to parks and public school grounds:
A.
Fighting.
B.
Destruction of or tampering with any sign, equipment, building facility
or structure or attempting the same.
C.
Destruction of trees, shrubs, foliage, flowers, grass or other plantings.
D.
Entry upon or into any Township park or other Township lands or any
public school lands and playgrounds before or after the hours designated
by action of the Board of Commissioners of the Township of Wilkins
or the Board of Directors of the Woodland Hills School District when
the open hours are posted on such properties.
E.
Use of Township recreational facilities without required proof of
payment of any fee required by the Township.
[Amended 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
This article shall be enforced by action brought before a Magisterial
District Judge in the same manner provided for the enforcement of
summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Any person, partnership, corporation or other entity who or which
violates or permits a violation of the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding, pay a fine of not
more than $1,000, plus the costs of prosecution, and in default of
the payment of the fine and costs of prosecution, shall be imprisoned
for a period not exceeding 30 days. Each day that the violation continues
shall be considered a separate offense.
