[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 1]
As used in this article, the term "person" shall include any
individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association, or other
legal entity. The singular shall include the plural, the plural shall
include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine
and the neuter.
[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 2]
No person shall destroy or injure in any way whatsoever or tamper
with or deface any public property of the Township of Thornbury, within
or without the Township, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work,
building, street light or water stop box on or in any streets, alleys,
sidewalks or public grounds in the Township.
[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 3]
No person shall in any manner interfere with or meddle with
or pull, drive, change, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument
or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location, corner
or angle in the Township, made, placed or set or hereafter made, placed
or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Township in
any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground in the Township,
to evidence the location, elevation, line, grade, corner or angle
of any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, drain or other
public work, matter or thing.
[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 4]
No person shall destroy or remove or deface or obliterate or
cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade erected by the authorities
of the Township or by any person doing work by permission of the authorities
of the Township on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or bridges
in the Township or on any public grounds of the Township, within or
without, as a warning of danger.
[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 5]
No person shall take any earth, stone or other material from
any of the streets, alleys or public grounds in the Township.
[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 6]
This article shall not apply to normal activities in connection
with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys,
sidewalks and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located
thereon or therein or to incidental results of work done thereon or
therein upon permit from or by authority of the Township.
[Ord. 14-1977, 8/8/1977, § 7; as amended by Ord.
7-1996, 8/7/1996, § XI(4); and by Ord. 2-2005, 7/6/2005]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a District Justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and,
in default of payment of said fine and cost, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues
or each section of this article which shall be found to have been
violated shall constitute a separate offense.
