[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Bridgeport 2-1-1965 by Ord. No. 273, approved 2-1-1965 (Ch. 104 of
the 1975 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Disorderly conduct is hereby prohibited within
the Borough of Bridgeport.
Any person who shall be guilty of any act, word
or conduct causing or tending to cause a disturbance of the peace
and good order of the Borough; or causing or tending to cause any
danger, discomfort or annoyance to any of the inhabitants of the Borough
or users of the Borough thoroughfares; or who shall willfully make
any loud, boisterous or unseemly noise or disturbance; or who shall
fight or quarrel or incite others to fight or quarrel; or who shall
publicly make use of obscene or indecent language; or who shall loaf
or loiter or congregate upon any of the public streets or alleys or
public grounds in the Borough of Bridgeport to the annoyance of peaceable
residents nearby or traveling upon any street or alley or being lawfully
upon any of the public grounds in the Borough, whereby the public
peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling public annoyed, shall
be guilty of disorderly conduct.
[Amended 2-3-1970 by Ord. No. 317, approved 2-3-1970; 8-12-1975 by Ord. No.
419, approved 8-15-1975; 3-14-1989 by Ord. No. 507, approved 3-14-1989]
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter before any Magisterial District
Judge shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs
of prosecution or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not
to exceed 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate
offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for
such separate offense.
