For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall be
applicable unless the context clearly indicates to the contrary:
PERSON
Any individual, natural person, joint-stock company, partnership,
voluntary association, society, club, firm, company, corporation, business
trust, organization or any other group acting as a unit, with a manager, lessee,
agent, servant, partner, member, director, officer or employee of any of them,
including an executor, administrator, trustee, receiver or other representative
appointed according to law.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a street of the Town of Georgetown, including
devices moved by human power.
This chapter is declared to be remedial and shall be construed to secure
the beneficial intent and purposes thereof which are to eliminate dangerous
conditions detrimental to public good and to protect the public health, safety
and general welfare of residents of the Town of Georgetown and visitors to
the town.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, hand out or distribute
or cause to be thrown, handed out or distributed any item, including but not
limited to food, candy, toys, promotional materials or any other item from
vehicles participating in parades in the Town of Georgetown.
It shall be unlawful for any person who is a pedestrian participant
in a parade in the Town of Georgetown to throw or cause to be thrown any item,
including but not limited to food, candy, toys, promotional materials or any
other item during a parade in the Town of Georgetown.
It shall be unlawful for any person who is a pedestrian participant
in a parade in the Town of Georgetown to hand out or distribute or cause to
be handed out or distributed any item, including but not limited to food,
candy, toys, promotional materials or any other item during a parade in the
Town of Georgetown if, as a result of said handing out or distributing of
said items, persons watching the parade are caused to enter into the streets
of the Town of Georgetown in order to retrieve said items.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in a court of competent
jurisdiction shall be fined not less than $25 and no more than $100, and shall
pay the cost of prosecution.