[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Wrightstown
by Ord. No. 1976-7 (Sec. 3-10 of the Revised General Ordinances). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Remaining idle in essentially one location, and shall include the
concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly, and shall
also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
A.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner
as to:
(1)
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of
the peace.
(2)
Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance
to the comfort and repose of any person.
(3)
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
(4)
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully
in any public place.
B.
This section shall include the making of unsolicited
remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated
to annoy or disturb the person to, or in whose hearing, they are made.
Whenever any police officer shall, in the exercise of reasonable judgment, decide that the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 107-2, he may, if he deems it necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety, order that person to leave that place; 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 subsection.
