[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Alpha 5-14-1974
(Ch. 61 of the 1974 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall, within the limits of the Borough of Alpha, intentionally,
willfully or maliciously destroy or injure any of the wires, posts, machines,
bells, sirens, boxes, locks or other apparatus of any fire or police alarm
system; nor shall any person intentionally, willfully or maliciously interfere
with the same or any part thereof with intent to create a false alarm or obstruct
the efficient operation of the same or any part thereof or hinder or impede
any of the operations intended to be accomplished thereby; nor shall any person
intentionally, willfully or maliciously cause a false alarm of fire to be
given in any manner.
No person shall, within the limits of the Borough, during an alarm of
fire, hinder, prevent or deter by any device whatsoever any fireman or other
person from rendering lawful assistance in abating or quelling such fire,
or hinder or interfere with any fireman from going to or returning from the
place where any building or other property is on fire or from which an alarm
proceeds; nor shall any person hinder or obstruct the passage of any fire
engine, hook-and-ladder truck, hose cart or any fire apparatus in going to
or from the place from which an alarm of fire proceeds or where any building
or other property may be burning.
Any person, firm or corporation violating or failing to comply with
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine
not exceeding $1,250, a term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a period
of community service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof, in
the discretion of the Judge. The continuation of such violation for each successive
day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing
or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided
above for each separate offense.
