[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. I]
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes the following activities: walking about aimlessly
without apparent purpose, lingering, hanging around, lagging behind,
the idle spending of time, delaying, sauntering and moving slowly
about, where such conduct is not due to physical defects or conditions.
Includes, but is not limited to, the following: all places
commonly known as being distinctively public, such as public streets,
public rest rooms, sidewalks, parks, alleys and buildings, all places
privately owned but open to the public generally, such as shopping
centers, transportation terminals, retail stores, movie theaters,
office buildings and restaurants and all places distinctively private,
such as homes or private residences and apartment houses.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. I]
A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if he shall remain
idle in essentially one location in a public place with the intent
to cause public inconvenience or alarm or to recklessly create a risk
thereof in such a manner so as to:
A.
Engage in fighting or threatening or in violent or tumultuous behavior.
B.
Create or cause to be created any disturbance calculated to interfere
with the comfort and repose of any person.
C.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public
place.
E.
Make unsolicited remarks of any offensive, disgusting or insulting
nature or which are calculated to disturb the person to or in whose
hearing they are made.
F.
Appear in any public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol,
narcotics or other drug, not therapeutically administered, to the
degree that he may endanger himself or other persons or property or
disturb persons in his vicinity.
G.
Carry in a threatening or menacing manner, without authority of law,
any pistol, revolver, dagger, razor, dangerous knife, stiletto, knuckles
or slingshot, an object containing noxious or deleterious liquid,
gas or substance or another dangerous weapon, or to conceal said weapon
on or about the person or vehicle.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. I]
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable
judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place
is causing any conditions enumerated in § 502 herein, he
may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace
and safety, order that person to leave that place, and any person
who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do by a police officer
shall be guilty of a violation of this Section.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. I]
This Part shall not apply to peaceful picketing, public speaking
or other lawful expressions of opinion not in contravention of other
laws.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. I]
It is the intent that this Part shall be supplemental to any
laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereinbefore or hereinafter
adopted concerning disorderly conduct.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. II]
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter in or upon any
public place for the purpose of committing any of the following:
A.
Offering to commit, committing or engaging in prostitution or lewdness
as prohibited by §§ 5901 and 5902 (a)(1) and (2) and
(b)(8) of the Pennsylvania statutes.
B.
Soliciting, inducing, enticing or procuring another to commit prostitution
or lewdness with himself or herself as prohibited by §§ 5901
and 5902 (a)(1) and (2) and (b)(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (8) of
the Pennsylvania statutes.
C.
Selling, purchasing, manufacturing or delivering or possessing with
intent to sell, purchase, manufacture or deliver a controlled substance
as prohibited by Act 64 and Title 18 of the Pennsylvania statutes.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. II]
For the purpose of this Part, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
An area generally visible to public view and includes streets,
sidewalks, bridges, alleys, plazas, parks, driveways, parking lots,
automobiles (whether moving or not) and buildings open to the general
public, including those which serve food or drink or provide entertainment,
and the doorways and entrances to buildings or dwellings and the grounds
enclosing them.
[Ord. 1888, 5/10/1999, § 1, Art. II]
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this Part
shall, upon being convicted in a summary proceeding before a district
justice, be sentenced to pay a fine for the use of the Borough of
not less than $25 nor more than $600 and costs of prosecution and,
in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment in the
Borough lockup or County jail for a period of not more than 30 days.
