Borough of Eddystone, PA
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 187 Loitering
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 11 Firemen's Relief Association
- Ch 24 Officers and Employees
- Ch 26 Open Records Policy
- Ch 29 Pensions
- Ch 33 Planning Commission
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 42 Recreation Board
- Ch 46 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 55 Zoning Hearing Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 63 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 67 Amusements
- Ch 70 Animals
- Ch 76 Bicycles
- Ch 81 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 85 Building Construction
- Ch 88 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 92 Burning, Outdoor
- Ch 97 Certificates of Occupancy; Rental Property Licenses
- Ch 100 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 103 Curfew
- Ch 107 Disorderly Premises
- Ch 110 Drainage, Grading and Erosion Control
- Ch 114 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 116 Dumpsters and Storage Containers
- Ch 119 Electrical Standards
- Ch 124 Excavations
- Ch 127 Explosives, Ammunition and Blasting Agents
- Ch 131 Fees
- Ch 135 Fences and Walls
- Ch 139 Fire and Smoke Detectors
- Ch 143 Fire Prevention
- Ch 147 Firewood
- Ch 152 Food Establishments, Mobile
- Ch 156 Gasoline and Fuel Oil Storage
- Ch 162 Handbills and Posters
- Ch 166 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 168 Health Regulations
- Ch 172 Housing Standards
- Ch 183 Littering
- Ch 187 Loitering
- § 187-1 Definitions.
- § 187-2 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 191 Minibikes and Motorcycles
- Ch 196 Noise
- Ch 200 Nuclear Waste and Radioactive Materials
- Ch 203 Nuisances
- Ch 207 Obscenity
- Ch 211 Parades
- Ch 213 Parks
- Ch 218 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 222 Plumbing
- Ch 226 Poles
- Ch 230 Property Maintenance
- Ch 237 Rental Property
- Ch 240 Secondhand Goods; Pawnbrokers
- Ch 242 Sewers
- Ch 243 Sex Offenders
- Ch 245 Skateboards, Roller Blades and Scooters
- Ch 251 Solid Waste
- Ch 254 Stormwater Management
- Ch 256 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 263 Taxation
- Ch 268 Trailers and Camp Cars
- Ch 273 Vehicles, Abandoned, Inoperable or Illegally Parked
- Ch 277 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 285 Water
- Ch 289 Weapons
- Ch 295 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A300 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Eddystone 8-9-1976 by Ord. No. 443, approved 9-13-1976. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words and terms used in this chapter shall have
the meanings as defined herein:
A person who remains, loiters or wanders in or about a place
without any lawful purpose or object or apparent reason and under
circumstances which justify suspicion that he/she may be or is about
to be engaged in crime, and who, upon inquiry by a police officer,
refuses to identify himself or fails to give a reasonably credible
account of his conduct and purposes; or one who loiters on the street,
sidewalk or other public place and refuses to move on when requested
to do so by any police officer; or one who is lewd, wanton, abusive
or lascivious in speech or behavior.
A person who has no lawful employment or visible means of
support and who wanders about the Borough at night without apparent
legal reason or purpose and fails or refuses to account for his lawful
presence when requested by a police officer.
[Amended 1-9-1989 by Ord. No. 524, approved 1-9-1989]
Any person who is a vagrant or loiterer, as hereinabove described,
shall, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice, be punished
by a fine of not more than $1,000 or, and in default thereof, by imprisonment
for not more than 30 days. Each day's failure to comply with
any provision of this chapter as aforesaid shall constitute a separate
violation.
