[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township of
Patterson 7-7-1970 as Ord. No. 205. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
Disorderly conduct is hereby prohibited within the Township of Patterson.
Any person who shall be guilty of any act, word or conduct causing or tending
to cause a disturbance of the peace and good order of the township, or causing
or tending to cause any danger, discomfort or annoyance to any of the inhabitants
of the township or users of the township thoroughfares, or who shall willfully
make any loud, boisterous or unseemly noise or disturbance or who shall riot,
fight or quarrel or incite others to riot, fight or quarrel, or who shall
publicly make use of obscene or indecent language, or who shall loaf or loiter
or congregate upon any of the public streets or alleys or public grounds in
the township, or upon private property where the owner or lease holder shall
request their removal, to the annoyance of peaceable residents nearby or traveling
upon any street or alley or being lawfully upon any street or alley or being
lawfully upon any of the public grounds in the township, whereby the public
peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling public annoyed, shall be guilty
of disorderly conduct.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than six hundred
dollars ($600.) and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such
fine and costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty
(30) days. This chapter shall be enforced in the manner provided in the First
Class Township Code.[2]
