[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Norristown:
Art. I, 4-6-1982 as Ch. 142 of the 1981 Code; Art. II, 9-8-1990 as Ord. No.
90-27. Sections 204-5 and 204-9 amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 4-6-1982 as Ch.
142 of the 1981 Code]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes the following activities: walking about aimlessly without
apparent purpose; lingering; hanging around; lagging behind; the idle spending
of time; delaying; sauntering; and moving slowly about, where such conduct
is not due to physical defects or conditions.
Includes but is not limited to the following: all places commonly
known as being distinctively public, such as public streets, public rest rooms,
sidewalks, parks, alleys and buildings; all places privately owned but open
to the public generally, such as shopping centers, transportation terminals,
retail stores, movie theaters, office buildings and restaurants; and all places
distinctively private, such as homes or private residences and apartment houses.
A person shall be guilty of disorderly conduct if he shall remain idle
in essentially one (1) location in a public place with the intent to cause
public inconvenience or alarm or to recklessly create a risk thereof in such
a manner so as to:
A.Â
Engage in fighting or threatening or in violent or tumultuous
behavior.
B.Â
Create or cause to be created any disturbance calculated
to interfere with the comfort and repose of any person.
C.Â
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D.Â
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place.
E.Â
Make unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting
or insulting nature or which are calculated to disturb the person to or in
whose hearing they are made.
F.Â
Appear in any public place manifestly under the influence
of alcohol, narcotics or other drug, not therapeutically administered, to
the degree that he may endanger himself or other persons or property or disturb
persons in his vicinity.
G.Â
Carry in a threatening or menacing manner, without authority
of law, any pistol, revolver, dagger, razor, dangerous knife, stiletto, knuckles
or slingshot, an object containing noxious or deleterious liquid, gas or substance,
or another dangerous weapon or to conceal said weapon on or about the person
or vehicle.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in § 204-1 herein, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place, and any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
This Article shall not apply to peaceful picketing, public speaking
or other lawful expressions of opinion not in contravention of other laws.
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this Article shall,
upon being convicted in a summary proceeding before a District Justice, be
sentenced to pay a fine for the use of the borough of not less than twenty-five
dollars ($25.) nor more than six hundred dollars ($600.), and costs of prosecution,
and in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment in the borough
lockup or county jail for a period of not more than thirty (30) days.
It is the intent that this Article shall be supplemental to any laws
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereinbefore or hereinafter adopted concerning
disorderly conduct.
[Adopted 9-8-1990 as Ord.
No. 90-27]
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter in or upon any public
place for the purpose of committing any of the following:
B.Â
Soliciting, inducing, enticing or procuring another to
commit prostitution or lewdness with himself or herself as prohibited by Section
5901 and Section 5902 (a)(1) and (2) and (b)(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (8)
of the Pennsylvania statutes.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: See 18 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 5901 and 5902(a)(1)
and (2) and (b)(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (8).
For the purpose of this Article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
An area generally visible to public view, and includes streets, sidewalks,
bridges, alleys, plazas, parks, driveways, parking lots, automobiles (whether
moving or not) and buildings open to the general public, including those which
serve food or drink or provide entertainment, and the doorways and entrances
to buildings or dwellings and the grounds enclosing them.
