Borough of Marcus Hook, PA
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2023-12-04
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 64 Alcoholic Beverages
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Auditor
- Ch 10 Civil Service Commission
- Ch 14 Emergency Operations Plan
- Ch 15 Environmental Advisory Council
- Ch 15A Fire Department
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 17 Historical Commission
- Ch 19 Library, Public
- Ch 24 Manager
- Ch 31 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 34 Planning Commission
- Ch 37 Police Department
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 45 Recreation and Park Board
- Ch 48 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 51 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 53 Smoking
- Ch 54 Social Security
- Ch 57 Vacant Property Review Committee
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 62 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 64 Alcoholic Beverages
- § 64-1 Definitions.
- § 64-2 Consumption in public places prohibited.
- § 64-3 Prima facie evidence of consumption.
- § 64-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 67 Amusements, Licensing of
- Ch 70 Billboards and Advertising Structures
- Ch 73 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 76 Building Construction
- Ch 78 Open Burning and Air Pollution Control
- Ch 80 Carnivals
- Ch 82 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 82A Claims, Municipal
- Ch 83 Curfew
- Ch 84 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 88 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 90 Dumpsters and Portable Storage Containers
- Ch 93 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 94 Fire Insurance Escrow
- Ch 96 Fire Prevention
- Ch 97 Fireworks
- Ch 99 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 102 Food Establishments
- Ch 106 Garbage and Rubbish
- Ch 111 Hawkers, Peddlers and Solicitors
- Ch 116 Junk Dealers and Junkyards
- Ch 121 Littering
- Ch 124 Loitering
- Ch 129 Massage Parlors
- Ch 132 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 135 Multiple Dwellings; Rooming Houses; Rental Units
- Ch 142 Numbering System: Properties and Premises
- Ch 145 Parades
- Ch 148 Parking Lots, Municipal
- Ch 151 Parks
- Ch 154 Plumbing
- Ch 157 Property Maintenance
- Ch 158 Radio Antennas and Electrical Disturbances
- Ch 160 Records
- Ch 162 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 165 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 167 Sewers
- Ch 169 Skateboards, Scooters and Rollerblades
- Ch 172 Solid Waste
- Ch 174 Stormwater Management
- Ch 175 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 178 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 180 Taxation
- Ch 182 Telephone Services
- Ch 185 Vector Control
- Ch 188 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 191 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 193 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 196 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A199 Cable Franchise Agreements
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Marcus
Hook 4-4-1977 by Ord. No. 697, approved 4-4-1977.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Loitering — See Ch. 124.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
Ethyl alcohol of any degree of proof originally produced by the distillation
of any fermented liquid, whether rectified or diluted with or without water,
whatever may be the origin thereof, and shall include synthetic ethyl alcohol
but shall not mean or include ethyl alcohol, whether or not diluted, that
has been denatured or otherwise rendered unfit for beverage purposes.
Includes any individual, whether a resident or nonresident of the
Borough of Marcus Hook and whether male or female.
Every way or place, of whatever nature, located within the Borough
of Marcus Hook, open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the
purposes of vehicular or pedestrian travel.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully consume in or upon
public ways or places within the Borough of Marcus Hook any beverage containing
any percentage of alcohol whatsoever.
The possession of an open container containing a beverage with any percentage
of alcohol whatsoever in or upon the public ways or places of the Borough
of Marcus Hook shall be prima facie evidence of consumption of such beverage
in violation of this chapter.
[Amended 9-6-1988 by Ord. No. O-88-5,
approved 9-6-1988]
Any person found guilty after hearing before a District Justice having
jurisdiction within the Borough of Marcus Hook of violating any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by up to the maximum
fine as provided from time to time by state statute.
