[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township
of Upper Darby 9-7-1976 by Ord.
No. 2502. Amendments noted where applicable.]
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
Ethyl alcohol of any degree of proof originally produced
by the distillation-of any fermented liquid, whether rectified or
diluted with or without water, whatever may be the origin thereof,
and shall include synthetic ethyl alcohol, but shall not mean or include
ethyl alcohol, whether or not diluted, that has been denatured or
otherwise rendered unfit for beverage purposes.
Includes any individual, whether a resident or nonresident
of the Township of Upper Darby and whether male or female.
Every way or place of whatever nature located within the
Township of Upper Darby, open to the use of the public as a matter
of right for the purposes of vehicular or pedestrian travel.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully consume in
or upon public ways or places within the Township of Upper Derby any
beverage containing any percentage of alcohol whatsoever.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
It shall be unlawful for any person to possess or transport
any open container that contains an alcoholic beverage with any percentage
of alcohol in or upon public ways or places within the Township of
Upper Darby.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
This chapter shall be enforced by the filing of a non-traffic
criminal citation with the Magisterial District Judge with jurisdiction
over the violation or as otherwise permitted by the Pennsylvania Rules
of Criminal Procedure. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates
the provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found guilty in a
summary criminal proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of $300 plus
any extraordinary expenses of the Township incurred in the prosecution
of the criminal case.
