[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Township of Wilkins 5-6-1968 by Ord. No. 426. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Amended 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917]
The Municipal Building of the Township of Wilkins
shall be open to the public for business on Monday through Friday,
inclusive (excluding legal holidays and other holidays as declared
from time to time by the Board of Commissioners), from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., and at the time during which any public township meeting
is being conducted.
The auditorium, lobby, rest rooms and hallways
are declared to be the public portions of the building. The following
portions of the building are reserved and are not open to the public:
the safe room, the police communications room and adjoining office,
the office of the Police Chief, the Township Secretary or Manager's
office and adjoining typists' offices, the garage and the jail cells.
No person shall at any time without the permission of the Township Secretary or Manager enter into or upon the reserved portions of the Municipal Building as defined in § 104-2 hereof.
No person shall, without the permission of the
Township Secretary or Manager, remain in the Municipal Building after
public business hours (which shall be construed to include the time
during which any public township meeting is being held).
The following actions are hereby defined as
disorderly practices and prohibited throughout the Municipal Building:
A.
Yelling, shrieking or screaming.
B.
Swearing at or threatening bodily harm upon any municipal
employee or official or any other citizen therein.
C.
Any conduct which has as its purpose or effect the
harassment of municipal employees to the end that they are distracted
from their duties and unable to properly perform the same.
D.
Interfering with the conduct of any public meeting
of the Board of Commissioners, the Zoning Hearing Board, the Planning
Commission or any other duly appointed board, commission or committee
of the Township of Wilkins by refusal to abide by the rules and regulations
governing the conduct of such meetings as adopted from time to time.
[Amended 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917]
[Amended 8-11-1980 by Ord. No. 661; 12-28-1998 by Ord. No.
917]
The following actions are hereby prohibited
in and on any property owned by the Township of Wilkins or the school
lands of the Woodland Hills School District, within the Township of
Wilkins, including but not limited to parks and public school grounds:
A.
Fighting.
B.
Destruction of or tampering with any sign, equipment,
building facility or structure or attempting the same.
C.
Destruction of trees, shrubs, foliage, flowers, grass
or other plantings.
D.
Entry upon or into any township park or other township
lands or any public school lands and playgrounds before or after the
hours designated by action of the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of Wilkins or the Board of Directors of the Woodland Hills School
District when the open hours are posted on such properties.
E.
Use of township recreational facilities without required
proof of payment of any fee required by the township.
[Amended 12-28-1998 by Ord. No. 917]
Any person convicted of a violation of this
chapter shall be fined or penalized in an amount not to exceed $600
and costs. Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction
or by proceeding by summons on default of the payment of the fine
or penalty imposed by said judgment and the costs, such person may
be sentenced to the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.
