[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Mount Jewett as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 1-8-1900 by Ord. No. 7]
It is hereby ordained and enacted by the Mayor and Borough Council of the Borough of Mount Jewett that from and after the passage of this article, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to be seen in the street or streets, public houses, or any other place within the limits of said Borough of Mount Jewett, drunk or intoxicated by reason of drinking vinous, malt, or spirituous liquors or admixtures thereof, and the evidence of such drunkenness or intoxication shall be proved according to law, or in view before the Mayor or Magisterial District Judge of said Borough, and any person or persons, having been convicted before either of said officers of having been intoxicated as aforesaid, shall be sentenced by said officers to forfeit and pay, for the use of said Borough, not less than $1 nor more than $50, and be confined in the Borough lockup or county jail not less than two hours nor more than 48 hours at hard labor, or without hard labor, or one or both of said penalties, at the discretion of the officer before whom said offender shall have been convicted of each and every offense as aforesaid; and it is further provided that any person found drunk, as aforesaid, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. shall forthwith be taken by the proper officer to the lockup, and there detained until 10:00 a.m., following, when said officer shall bring said offender before the proper officer for hearing according to law.
It is further enacted that any person or persons found prowling about the streets of said Borough, either by day or night, whether intoxicated or otherwise, hooting and howling and thereby disturbing the quiet and peace of the citizens of said Borough shall be on conviction thereof before either of the aforesaid officers named in § 335-1 subject to the fines and penalties as aforesaid in § 335-1, at the discretion of the aforesaid officers before whom convicted.
And be it further ordained and enacted, that it shall be the duty of the Borough Constable, or any policeman of said Borough, to arrest and bring before the Mayor or any Magisterial District Judge in said Borough any such offender or offenders as are named in §§ 335-1 and 335-2, and for each and every person so apprehended and brought before either of the aforesaid officers, the said Constable or policeman, for said service, shall receive the sum of $1 in addition to other fees for services in said case, and the said sum shall be taxed as costs in said proceeding, and said Constable or policeman on complaint of any person made before either of the aforesaid officers that the said Constable has refused, on request, to arrest any such offender or offenders described in §§ 335-1 and 335-2, and the said Constable or policeman shall be subject to the same fines and penalties named in §§ 335-1, at the discretion of the officers before whom convicted; and also that it shall be lawful for the aforesaid officers in any case of conviction as aforesaid named in §§ 335-1 and 335-2, when the sentence is for costs, or costs and fine, at his discretion, instead of committing said offender, on the entry of said judgment, forthwith to issue execution thereon and levy on the goods and chattels of said offender, and proceed in the same manner as executions are proceeded in in the case of trespass and collect said costs as costs and fines.