Township of Ridley, PA
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2017-03-22
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 318 Weapons
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Article III Carrying of Knives
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Authorities
- Ch 9 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 14 Educational Service Agency
- Ch 18 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Fire Department
- Ch 37 Officers and Employees
- Ch 41 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 45 Police Civil Service Commission
- Ch 46 Procurement
- Ch 50 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 53 Smoking
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 62 Adult Uses
- Ch 66 Alarms and Alarm Systems
- Ch 69 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 73 Amusement Devices
- Ch 77 Animals
- Ch 81 Auctions
- Ch 88 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 92 Building Construction
- Ch 95 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 99 Cable Television
- Ch 103 Claims, Municipal
- Ch 105 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 108 Day-Care Homes
- Ch 113 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 117 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 120 Electrical Standards
- Ch 122 Energy Conservation
- Ch 124 Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 129 Excavations
- Ch 135 Fire Prevention
- Ch 138 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 140 Fuel and Heating
- Ch 147 Handbills
- Ch 151 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 155 Health Code
- Ch 160 Improvements, Assessment of
- Ch 163 Insurance
- Ch 168 Landscaping
- Ch 173 Licensing
- Ch 176 Loitering and Curfew
- Ch 180 Massage and Massage Establishments
- Ch 181 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 190 Noise and Nuisances
- Ch 195 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 199 Parades and Processions
- Ch 202 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 205 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 209 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 213 Picketing
- Ch 216 Plumbing
- Ch 220 Police Services
- Ch 224 Property Maintenance
- Ch 225 Rental Dwelling Units
- Ch 228 Sales, Seasonal
- Ch 232 Secondhand Materials; Pawnbrokers
- Ch 237 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 241 Shopping Carts
- Ch 245 Shows and Special Events
- Ch 249 Signs and Billboards
- Ch 253 Solid Waste
- Ch 256 Speed-Timing Devices
- Ch 260 Stormwater Management
- Ch 264 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 268 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 271 Swimming Pools
- Ch 275 Taxation
- Ch 278 Taxicabs
- Ch 282 Telecommunications
- Ch 285 Tents
- Ch 290 Trees
- Ch 294 Utility Lines
- Ch 299 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 303 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 306 Vehicles, Towing of
- Ch 310 Walls and Fences
- Ch 314 Wastewater Treatment
- Ch 318 Weapons
- Ch 318 Art III Carrying of Knives
- § 318-9 Carrying of certain knives prohibited.
- § 318-10 Exceptions.
- § 318-11 Right of seizure.
- § 318-12 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 325 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 8-20-1980 by Ord. No. 1496]
No person shall carry a knife with a blade greater than three inches
in length on or about his person, except in his place of abode or fixed place
of business.
The provisions of § 318-9 of this article shall not apply to:
A.
Constables, sheriffs, prison or jail wardens or their
deputies, policemen of the commonwealth or its political subdivisions or other
law enforcement officers.
B.
Members of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United
States or of the National Guard or organized reserves when on duty.
C.
Any person engaged in the business of manufacturing,
repairing or dealing in knives or the agent or representative of any such
person having in his possession, using or carrying a knife in the usual or
ordinary course of such business.
D.
Any person while carrying a knife in a secure wrapper
from the place of purchase to his home or place of business or to a place
of repair, or back to his home or place of business, or in moving from one
place of abode or business to another.
E.
Persons licensed to hunt or fish in the commonwealth,
if such persons are actually hunting or fishing or are going to the places
where they desire to hunt or fish or returning from. such places.
The Captain of Police of the Township of Ridley is hereby authorized
to seize or remove and destroy any knife which shall be carried or concealed
by any person within the Township of Ridley in violation of this article.
[Amended 11-16-1988 by Ord. No. 1639]
Every person violating the provisions of this article shall, upon conviction
before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $1,000,
together with costs of prosecution, and upon default in the payment thereof,
be sentenced to undergo imprisonment for a period not exceeding 30 days.
