[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Altoona 2-23-1988 by Ord. No.
5028. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in this chapter,
the following words or phrases shall be construed according to the
definitions set forth below.
Any house, place of business, apartment, or any similar place
where excessive or underage consumption of alcoholic beverages or
other intoxicants is permitted; where fighting or boisterous, lewd,
obscene behavior is permitted, all of which causes a common nuisance
and disturbance of the peace of the public and citizens of the neighborhood.
Any person who owns, leases, lives within, or who is a guest
or occupant, exercising immediate control of, and who permits to exist,
a disorderly house.
Offensive to the accepted standards of decency or modesty
which is offensive or repulsive to the senses, lacking moral discipline
or sexual restraint.
Sexual conduct such as ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted,
actual or simulated, masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd exhibitions
of the genitals.
Any person, whether tenant or guest, who is found within
a disorderly house as defined.
A.
No person shall permit to exist or be a keeper of, within the City, a common ill-governed and disorderly house to the encouragement of conduct as defined in the definition of "disorderly house" in § 291-1.
B.
No person shall be an occupant of any common ill-governed and disorderly house involving such conduct as described in the definition of "disorderly house" in § 291-1.
C.
No person shall lease a house or any other property to another for purposes as described in the definition of "disorderly house" in § 291-1 or allow any such lease to continue after knowledge or notice is given to the owner that such house or property is being used for the purposes described in § 291-1.
Whosoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than
$100 nor more than $1,000 or to be imprisoned for a period not to
exceed 90 days, or both.
