[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Glenolden 9-18-2007 by Ord. No. 2048, approved 9-18-2007. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
The following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Borough of Glenolden, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Any or all of the following: remaining idle essentially in
one location; lingering; spending time idly; loafing or walking about
aimlessly in a vicinity or neighborhood; or "hanging out."
Any public street, alley, sidewalk, park, playground, ball
field, recreation areas, commons, or parking lots; or any private
parking lots open to public use (regardless of the private parking
lot establishment is open or closed for business).
No person shall loiter in any public access
property in such manner as to do any or all of the following:
A.
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach
of the peace;
B.
Create or cause to be created any annoyance to any
person or persons;
C.
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles;
and
D.
Obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully in any public access property as defined in § 106-1 of this chapter. This shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of any offensive, disgusting, or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to or in whose hearing they are made.
Whenever the presence of any person in any public access property is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 106-2 of this chapter, any police officer may order that person to leave that place. If that person shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by any police officer or if that person returns and continues to violate the conditions enumerated in § 106-2 of this chapter after being ordered to leave that place by any police officer (regardless of the time elapsed from the initial order), that person shall be in violation of this section.
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of up to $500 and costs of prosecution or, in default of payment
of same, imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days.
Any police officer is hereby authorized to act
on behalf of the Borough.
