[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
West Reading as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 4-15-1969 by Ord. No. 558 (Ch. V, §§ 102 through
107, of the 1993 Code of Ordinances)]
No person or persons shall destroy or injure in any way whatsoever,
or tamper with or deface any public property of the Borough of West
Reading, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work, building, streetlight,
fire hydrant or water or gas stop box, on any of the streets, alleys
or sidewalks, or in any of the parks or other public grounds in the
Borough.
No person or persons shall in any manner interfere with or meddle
with or pull, drive, change, alter, or destroy any stake, post, monument
or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location, corner
or angle in the Borough of West Reading, made, placed or set, or hereafter
made, placed or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the
Borough in any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground
in the Borough, to evidence the elevation, line, grade, location,
corner or angle of any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter,
sewer or other public work, matter or thing.
No person or persons shall willfully or maliciously destroy,
remove, deface, obliterate or cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade
erected by the authorities of the Borough or by any person, firm or
corporation doing work by permission of the authorities of the Borough,
on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or bridges in the Borough,
as a warning of danger.
No person or persons shall take any earth, stone or other material
from any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public grounds in
the Borough.
This article shall not apply to normal activities in connection
with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys,
sidewalks and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located
therein, or to incidental results of work thereon or therein upon
permit from or by authority of the Borough.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding under the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus court costs
and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement
proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction,
or by proceedings by summons on default of the payment of the fine
or penalty imposed and the costs, the defendant may be sentenced and
committed to the Borough correctional facility for a period not exceeding
10 days or to the county correctional facility for a period not exceeding
30 days. Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement
under this section, the Borough may enforce this article in equity
in the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County.
