[Ord. 335, 9/11/1978, § 1]
For purposes of this Part, 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.
Every way or place, of whatever nature, located within the
Borough of East Lansdowne, open to the use of the public as a matter
of right, for the purposes of vehicular or pedestrian travel.
Shall include any individual whether a resident or nonresident
of the Borough of East Lansdowne and whether male or female.
[Ord. 335, 9/11/1978, § 2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully consume in
or upon public ways or places within the Borough of East Lansdowne
any beverage containing any percentage of alcohol whatsoever.
[Ord. 335, 9/11/1978, § 3]
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 East Lansdowne shall be prima face evidence
of consumption of such beverage in violation of this Part.
[Ord. 335, 9/11/1978, § 4; as amended by Ord. 401,
7/11/1988; and by Ord. 416, 4/22/1991]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first offense and not less than
fifty ($50.00) dollars nor more than six hundred dollars ($600.00)
for the second and each subsequent offense in any three hundred and
sixty-five (365) day period; plus costs, and in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed thirty
(30) days.
