As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Any act, work or conduct causing or tending to cause a disturbance
of the peace and good order of the Borough or causing or tending to
cause any danger, discomfort or annoyance to any of the inhabitants
of the Borough, or users of the Borough thoroughfares; or any loud,
boisterous, excessive, unseemly or unnecessary noise or disturbance,
fighting or quarreling or inciting others to fight or quarrel; or
making use publicly of obscene or indecent language; being visibly
intoxicated; or loafing, loitering, prowling on private of public
property or on any of the public streets or roads or public grounds
in the Borough to the annoyance of peaceable residents nearby traveling
or residing on any street or road or being lawfully on any public
grounds of the Borough, whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed
or the traveling public is annoyed.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Any type of mechanical device, propelled by a motor, in which
persons or property may be transported upon public streets or highways,
and including trailers or semitrailers pulled thereby.
NUISANCE
Any condition, structure or improvement which is unreasonable,
unwarranted or unlawful and/or which causes or tends to cause injury,
danger, damage, hurt, inconvenience, annoyance or discomfort to any
person in the legitimate enjoyment of such person's legal and reasonable
uses of said person's property in the neighborhood or causes a blighting
effect in Borough neighborhoods.
PERSON
A natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation
or other legal entity.
REFUSE or RUBBISH
Includes but not be limited to the following: any wastepaper,
sweepings, ashes, household waste, glass, metal, furniture, rotted
wood products, vehicle parts and accessories, or any other detrimental
substance.
No person, persons, firm or corporation shall cause, continue,
maintain or permit to exist any nuisance within the Borough of Littlestown.
Disorderly conduct is hereby prohibited within the Borough of
Littlestown.
In addition to the foregoing provisions, the following specific
acts shall be defined as and held to be disorderly conduct and punishable
as such:
A. Loud playing of radios, television sets, amplifiers and sound devices
so as to be heard beyond the premises.
B. Operating of motor vehicles, motorcycles, motorbikes, scooters and
go-carts which are not adequately and properly equipped with mufflers
in operating condition or operating the same so as to cause unnecessary
noise or racing or operating the same in a reckless and dangerous
manner.
C. Operating an unlicensed vehicle, including go-carts, or operating
model airplanes equipped with gasoline engines on a public street
or on public or school grounds.
D. Parking of automobiles on streets or public property or on private
property not owned by occupants of the automobile for the purpose
of engaging in immoral acts or "petting."
E. The false reporting of crimes or misdemeanors or the intentional
misleading calling or requesting service of the Police Department
or Fire Department.
F. The conduct of gambling or the permission by the owner or occupant
of the premises for others to conduct gambling on the premises or
permitting gambling devices and slot machines on the premises, or
any person found in a place where gambling is conducted.
G. Throwing trash or rubbish upon or littering the streets or public
or private property adjacent thereto.
H. Posting bills, notices, advertisements or signs on telephone poles
or elsewhere along streets or on public or private property.
I. Resisting or interfering with the duty of police officers or fire
officers in the performance of their duties.
J. The molesting, annoying or insulting of a female person by a male
person or any solicitation by a female person for the purpose of prostitution.
K. The distribution, sale or exhibition of obscene, indecent or immoral
pictures, films, literature or pamphlets, or engaging in any obscene,
indecent or immoral act or show.
L. To be in violation of any curfew or legal restriction on public assembly
hereinafter established by resolution of the Borough Council.
M. Begging, soliciting alms or vagrancy.
N. Any lot owner or owners or occupiers of the same fronting on the
respective streets within the Borough, whether rented or occupied
by the owner, shall either remove or cause to be removed all snow
from the respective pavements and water gutters within a period of
24 hours after the accumulation, and all ice shall be salted or cindered
within 24 hours of forming.
O. Any other act or acts which would be a violation of the Borough Code
or the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and not specifically
defined or prohibited by any ordinances of the Borough of Littlestown.
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, or permit to
be maintained, on any property owned or occupied by such person within
the limits of the Borough of Littlestown any condition detrimental
to health; and any such condition shall constitute a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to accumulate or cause or
permit the accumulating of garbage, refuse or rubbish on public or
private grounds within the limits of the Borough of Littlestown; and
any such accumulation shall constitute a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to have, cause or permit
the existence of any dangerous structure on public or private grounds
within the limits of the Borough of Littlestown.
In the event any person shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter, the Borough Manager, or the Code Enforcement Officer,
if authorized by the Borough Manager, may order the abatement or removal
of any such nuisance or dangerous structure by the owner or occupier
of such grounds, after five days' written notice to such owner or
occupier to do so; and upon default of the owners or occupiers of
such grounds to abate or remove such nuisance or dangerous structure
as so ordered, the Borough of Littlestown shall abate or remove the
same or cause its abatement or removal and collect the cost thereof,
together with a penalty of 10% of such cost, in the manner provided
by law.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof before the Mayor of the Borough of Littlestown,
Pennsylvania, or any Magisterial District Judge of Adams County, Pennsylvania,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 plus costs of prosecution,
and in default of payment of such fines and costs, to imprisonment
in the Adams County, Pennsylvania, jail for not more than 30 days.
Each day that a violation is permitted to continue without correction
shall constitute a separate offense punishable by a like fine or penalty.