[Adopted 7-8-1940 by Ord. No. 631]
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960]
In order to maintain the peace, good government, safety and welfare of the Township of Haverford and of its citizens and inhabitants and in the due exercise of the police power, it is hereby made unlawful for any person coming within any of the following classes to reside in the Township of Haverford or remain in the Township of Haverford for a period in excess of six hours or remove therefrom, unless he or she shall register or reregister with the Department of Police as hereinafter provided and shall give to said Department the information required herein, unless he or she shall have been pardoned by competent legal authority. The classifications of persons subject to these requirements are as follows:
A. 
Any person who shall have served any part of a sentence for a breach of the criminal law of this or any other state or country, within 10 years, in a state or federal penitentiary or in any corresponding institution in any foreign country.
B. 
Any person who shall, within 10 years, have served any part of a sentence of imprisonment in any public prison for two years or more.
C. 
Any person who shall have been convicted and/or served any part of his or her sentence, within 10 years, for the offenses of counterfeiting; larceny; blackmail; forgery; obtaining money by false pretenses; obtaining property by false pretenses; burglary; felonious assault; robbery; arson; murder; voluntary manslaughter; treason; kidnapping; extortion; unlawful carrying of deadly weapons; violation of any state or national law prohibiting the sale, transportation or possession of narcotics; violation of the white slave act; sodomy; buggery; shoplifting; mayhem; gambling; larceny from the person and/or rape; and/or for any attempt to commit any thereof and/or any unlawful conspiracy to commit any of the same.
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960]
The Chief of Police shall provide a book in his office in which shall be entered the names and addresses of all persons residing in or coming to the Township or removing therefrom as provided in § 128-5 hereof, the time and place of his or her conviction or convictions, the number thereof, the nature of the felony orfelonies or other crime or crimes or sentences imposed and whether such sentence or sentences were complied with and to what extent or whether commuted and whether the person has been paroled, together with such other relevant information as the Chief of Police may require. The various items to be entered in such book shall be based on an affidavit to be furnished by the person so convicted and imprisoned, supplemented by any other available information, and said affidavit and record shall be held as confidential, the contents thereof not to be disclosed except to the police authorities for the prevention or punishment of crime or the detection of crimes. The Chief of Police may, in his discretion, require the taking of fingerprints and photographs of such registrants at public expense.
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960]
It shall be the duty of any person or persons required to register as herein provided to do so within 10 days of the passage of this article if then within the Township of Haverford or within six hours after arriving in the Township if not therein at the time of the passage of this article. Any registered person who shall change his place of residence shall notify the Department of Police of such change within 24 hours after making the same, and any person removing from the Township having once registered with the Department shall notify the Chief of Police of such removal before leaving the Township.
[Amended 6-30-1986 by Ord. No. 1960; 6-13-1988 by Ord. No. 2019; 3-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2660]
Any person required by the terms of this article to register and failing to do so, or who shall furnish false information or affidavit or in any other manner violate the terms and provisions of this article or any of them shall be subject to a fine or penalty of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution for each offense, which fine or penalty may be collected by suit brought in the name of this Township before any District Justice of the Peace of this Township in like manner as debts of like amount may be sued for by existing laws; and in default of one payment of the fine and costs, the violator may be sentenced to the county jail for a term of not more than 30 days. Each and every day in which any person, firm or corporation shall be in violation of this article shall constitute a separate offense.
It is the intention of this Board of Commissioners in the passage of this article that the article shall be effective at all times hereafter, irrespective of whether any particular class of persons included herein as subject hereto is declared by any court to be improper or invalid, and that if any part of the penalties herein imposed shall be declared invalid, then and in such case all other penalties imposed shall remain in full force and effect.