[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
West Mifflin as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 1-21-1969 by Ord. No. 653; amended in its entirety 3-16-1999 by Ord. No.
1094 (Ch. 6, Part 3, of the 1999 Code of Ordinances)]
Disorderly conduct, as defined in the Pennsylvania Crimes Code
of 1972 (18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5503), is hereby prohibited within
the Borough. A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if he:
A.
Engages in fighting or in threatening, violent or tumultuous behavior.
B.
Makes unreasonable noise.
C.
Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act
which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor. Provided, as used
in this section, the word "public" means affecting or likely to affect
persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has
access. Among the places included are streets, alleys and sidewalks,
transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of
business or amusement, any neighborhood, or any premises which are
open to the public.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$600, and costs, and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
[Adopted 3-16-1999 by Ord. No. 1094 (Ch. 6, Part 6, of the
1999 Code of Ordinances)]
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 Borough or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work,
building or streetlight on or in any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks
or public grounds in the Borough.
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 Borough, 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 Borough or by any person doing work by permission
of the authorities of the Borough on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks
or bridges in the Borough or on any public grounds of the Borough,
within or without the Borough.
No person shall take any earth, stone, or other material from
any street, alley, or public grounds in the Borough.
No person shall pour, throw or deposit any harmful or destructive
substance or matter on any street, alley, sidewalk, public grounds
or public storm or sanitary sewers in the Borough.
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 Borough.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$600, plus costs, and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a
violation of this article continues shall constitute a separate offense.
