Borough of Marcus Hook, PA
chevron_right
2023-12-04
info
chevron_right
Part II: General Legislation
chevron_right
Chapter 124 Loitering
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Auditor
- Ch 10 Civil Service Commission
- Ch 14 Emergency Operations Plan
- Ch 15 Environmental Advisory Council
- Ch 15A Fire Department
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Historical Commission
- Ch 19 Library, Public
- Ch 24 Manager
- Ch 31 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 34 Planning Commission
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 45 Recreation and Park Board
- Ch 48 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 51 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 53 Smoking
- Ch 54 Social Security
- Ch 57 Vacant Property Review Committee
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 62 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 64 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 67 Amusements, Licensing of
- Ch 70 Billboards and Advertising Structures
- Ch 73 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 76 Building Construction
- Ch 78 Open Burning and Air Pollution Control
- Ch 80 Carnivals
- Ch 82 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 82A Claims, Municipal
- Ch 83 Curfew
- Ch 84 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 88 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 90 Dumpsters and Portable Storage Containers
- Ch 93 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 94 Fire Insurance Escrow
- Ch 96 Fire Prevention
- Ch 97 Fireworks
- Ch 99 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 102 Food Establishments
- Ch 106 Garbage and Rubbish
- Ch 111 Hawkers, Peddlers and Solicitors
- Ch 116 Junk Dealers and Junkyards
- Ch 121 Littering
- Ch 124 Loitering
- § 124-1 Definitions.
- § 124-2 Loitering prohibited.
- § 124-3 Authority of police officers.
- § 124-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 129 Massage Parlors
- Ch 132 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 135 Multiple Dwellings; Rooming Houses; Rental Units
- Ch 142 Numbering System: Properties and Premises
- Ch 145 Parades
- Ch 148 Parking Lots, Municipal
- Ch 151 Parks
- Ch 154 Plumbing
- Ch 157 Property Maintenance
- Ch 158 Radio Antennas and Electrical Disturbances
- Ch 160 Records
- Ch 162 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 165 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 167 Sewers
- Ch 169 Skateboards, Scooters and Rollerblades
- Ch 172 Solid Waste
- Ch 174 Stormwater Management
- Ch 175 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 178 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 180 Taxation
- Ch 182 Telephone Services
- Ch 185 Vector Control
- Ch 188 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 191 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 193 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 196 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A199 Cable Franchise Agreements
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Marcus
Hook 12-3-1984 by Ord. No. O-84-8, approved 12-3-1984.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location, and includes the concepts
of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly, and shall also
include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
A.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner
as to:
(1)
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of
the peace.
(2)
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
(3)
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
(4)
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place.
B.
This section shall include the making of unsolicited
remarks of an offensive, disgusting, or insulting nature or which are calculated
to annoy or disturb the person to, or in whose hearing, they are made.
Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in § 124-2, any police officer may order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
[Amended 9-6-1988 by Ord. No. O-88-5,
approved 9-6-1988]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punishable for each offense by a fine of up to the
maximum amount provided from time to time by state statute.
