[Ord. 839, 2/12/1996, § 1]
A person shall be guilty of keeping, maintaining or visiting
a disorderly house or place in the Borough of Bridgeville, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, if such person is found on the premises or found
to be the keeper or keepers thereof.
[Ord. 839, 2/12/1996, § 2]
A disorderly house shall be defined as follows: all houses of
illfame; all houses frequented by persons for lewd unchaste or gaming,
gambling, drinking, the use of drugs or narcotics of any kind, or
misbehavior or the common nuisance and disturbance of the neighborhood
or orderly citizens; all unlicensed public dance houses and all houses
and places where intoxicating liquors are sold without license contrary
to the laws of the Commonwealth, or where persons gather or visit
unlawfully for any unlawful purpose or practice; all houses and places
where slot machines and other games of chance are unlawfully maintained
and operated; all houses and places frequented by persons for the
purpose of having their future forecast or having their fortune told,
either for pay or for gift. In addition, a disorderly house shall
include any establishment open to the public which shall engage in
providing massages, body rubs or other bodily stimulations by any
means, if such massages, body rubs or other bodily stimulations, whether
by direct contact or by the performance of any act, includes nudity,
sexual conduct or sexual excitement by any party. As used in this
Section, the following definitions shall apply:
The showing of the human male or female genitals, public
area or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or showing
of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering, or the
showing of covered genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
Acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse or
physical conduct with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals,
public area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, breast.
The condition of human male or female genitals when in a
state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
[Ord. 839, 2/12/1996, § 3]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep a disorderly house
or place, or to visit a disorderly house or place, as defined hereunder
within the Borough of Bridgeville. Any person convicted of violating
this Part shall, upon conviction before any justice of the peace,
be subject to a fine not exceeding $600 and costs for each offense
and, in default of payment thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment
in the Allegheny County Jail for a period not exceeding 30 days. The
Mayor is authorized to direct the padlocking of any premises which
constitute a disorderly house.
