[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg
as indicted in section histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
CROSS-REFERENCES
Disorderly conduct: see 3rd Class Code § 2403(55)
[53 P.S. § 37403(55)]; Crimes Code, 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5503.
Disorderly establishments or practices: see 3rd Class Code § 2403(24)
[53 P.S. § 37403(24)].
Noise control and abatement: see Ch. 3-343.
[Ord. No. 51-1969]
The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the following
meanings:
To render impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or
hazard.
Affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which
the public or a substantial group has access, including but not limited
to highways, transport facilities, schools, apartment houses, places
of business, places of amusement or any neighborhood.
[Ord. No. 51-1969]
Conduct is prohibited if, with intent to cause public inconvenience,
annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, a person:
A.
Engages in fighting or threatening or in violent or tumultuous behavior.
B.
Makes unreasonable noise or offensive coarse or lewd utterances,
gesture(s) or displays, or addresses abusive or lewd language to any
person present.
C.
Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act
which serves no legitimate purpose to the actor.
D.
Appears in any public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol,
narcotics or other drug(s), not therapeutically administered, to the
degree such person may endanger himself or herself or other persons
or property or annoy persons in his or her vicinity.
E.
Having no legal privilege to do so, intentionally or recklessly obstructs
any highway or other public passage, whether alone or with others.
No person shall be guilty of violating this subsection solely because
people have gathered to hear such person speak or otherwise communicate
or because such person is a member of such gathering.
Ord. No. 69-1939
The operation for advertising purposes along, upon or over any
public highway of the City of any radio, amplifier, loudspeaker, or
other mechanical or electrical sound-producing instrument or device,
whether installed on any automobile, sound truck, vehicle, or otherwise
operated howsoever, is declared to be a public nuisance and is prohibited.
[Ord. No. 34-1978]
A.
No person, firm, copartnership, association, or corporation shall
knowingly or wantonly operate or cause to be operated any machine,
device, apparatus, or instrument of any kind whatsoever, the operation
of which shall cause reasonably preventable electrical interference
with radio reception within the City limits. However, x-ray pictures,
examinations or treatments may be made at any time if the machine
or apparatus used therefor is properly equipped to avoid all unnecessary
or reasonably preventable interference with radio reception and is
not negligently operated.
B.
This chapter shall not be held or construed to embrace or cover the
regulation of any transmitting or broadcasting instrument or device
licensed or authorized by or under the provisions of any act of the
Congress of the United States or the facilities of any public service
company, provided that all reasonable devices and practices are used
to minimize the interference.[1]
