[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Chartiers 7-29-1970 by Ord. No. 59. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
It shall be unlawful and shall constitute disorderly
practices for any person:
A.Â
To be guilty of breach of the peace, vagrancy, disorderly
conduct, or to engage in fighting, or to incite others to fight or
to engage in any unlawful act tending to imperil the personal security
of any person or to endanger or injure property within the Township
of Chartiers;
B.Â
To use loud, boisterous, profane, blasphemous, indecent
or immoral language upon or near any of the public highways or public
places, or in a manner so as to annoy residents in the neighborhood,
or to make any unseemly noise or disturbance to the annoyance of the
residents nearby;
C.Â
To act in and about the streets, highways or any public
places of the Township in a noisy, loud, boisterous and unseemly manner
or in such manner as to disturb the peace and quiet of the community;
D.Â
To commit any act of lewdness or public indecency
of exposure of person or to become intoxicated;
E.Â
To loaf, loiter, stand upon any of the sidewalks or
other public highways or places, so as to interfere with the free
and full passage of residents or travelers;
F.Â
To set up, maintain, open or conduct any gambling
place or device; immoral show, entertainment or exhibition; unlawful
drinking place, resort or house of prostitution, or to gather in or
participate in the operation of the same, or to be a patron thereof;
G.Â
To carry concealed any deadly weapon, unless authorized
by law; to throw on or into any highway any stones, snowballs or other
material or to raise any false alarm of fire;
H.Â
To interfere with Township police officers, resist
arrest or fail to render assistance to the police officer when called
upon by him, or to tamper with, destroy or otherwise interfere with
any lights, guardrails, signs, or other property or materials placed
in public places by the Township or any of its officials.
[Amended 6-30-1971 by Ord. No. 60[1]]
Any person who violates or permits a violation
of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought
before a Magisterial District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of
Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default
of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that
such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated
shall also constitute a separate offense.
