[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Middletown as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-1-1992 by Ord. No. 92-13 (Ch. 6, Part 5, of the
1992 Code)]
As used in this article, the term "person" shall include any
individual, corporation, partnership, association, firm or other legal
entity. The singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include
the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the
neuter.
No person shall destroy, injure, tamper with or deface any public
property of the Township of Middletown, or any grass, walk, lamp,
ornamental work, building, traffic control device, street sign or
streetlight on or in any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or public
grounds in the Township.
No person shall in any manner interfere or meddle with, or pull,
drive, change, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or other
marking made, placed or set, or hereafter made, placed or set, or
caused to be done by the authorities of the Township to evidence the
location, elevation, line, grade, corner or angle of any public street,
alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, drain or other public work or thing.
No person shall destroy, remove, deface, obliterate or cover
up any lamp, sign or barricade erected as a warning of danger by the
authorities of the Township or by any person doing work by permission
of the authorities of the Township on any of the streets, alleys,
sidewalks or bridges in the Township or on any public grounds of the
Township within or without the Township of Middletown.
No person shall take any earth, stone or other material from
any street, alley or public grounds in the Township, except in an
emergency to protect the safety of the general public.
No person shall pour, throw or deposit any harmful or destructive
substance or matter on any street, alley, sidewalk or public grounds
in the Township.
This article shall not apply to normal activities in connection
with construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys, sidewalks
and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located thereon
or therein or to incidental results of work done thereon or therein
upon permit from or by authority of the Township of Middletown.
[Amended 6-23-1998 by Ord. No. 98-08]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues
or each section of this article which shall be found to have been
violated shall constitute a separate offense.
