Pursuant to the authority granted in the Borough
Code to prohibit nuisances and to promote the health, cleanliness,
comfort and safety of the citizens of the Borough of Bridgeport and
the authority of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to enact local ordinances to regulate, inter alia, the sale, distribution,
display and exhibition of and activities concerning obscene and other
sexual material as provided for in 18 P.S. § 5903(k) and
as upheld by the United States District Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania in Brown v. Pornography Commission of Lower Southampton
Township, 620 F. Supp. 1199 (1985), the Borough of Bridgeport enacts
the following article.
Nothing in this article shall apply to any recognized
historical society or museum accorded charitable status by the federal
government, any county, city, Borough, township or town library, any
public library, any library of any school, college or university or
any archive or library under the supervision and control of the commonwealth
or a political subdivision.
Any person who shall violate the provisions
of this article shall, upon summary conviction before any Magisterial
District Judge, pay a fine not to exceed $600 and costs of prosecution.
Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction, or by proceedings
by summons on default of the payment of the fine or penalty imposed
and the costs, the person who shall have violated this article may
be sentenced and committed to the county jail for a period not exceeding
30 days.