[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council of the Township of O'Hara 5-14-1968 by Ord. No. 551 (Art. 709 of the 1978 Codified Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Whenever the Township Manager, or, in the event of their inability to act, the President of Council, or, in the event of their inability to act, the senior available police officer, determines that an emergency exists as a result of mob action or other civil disobedience or in the event of a disaster causing danger of injury to or damage to persons or property, they shall have the power to impose by proclamation any or all of the following regulations necessary to preserve the peace and order of the Township:
A. 
To impose curfew upon all or any portion of the Township, thereby requiring all persons in designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves from the public streets, alleys, parks or other public places. However, physicians, nurses and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen and authorized or requested law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempted from such curfew.
B. 
To order the closing of any business establishments anywhere within the Township for the period of the emergency, such businesses to include but not be limited to those selling intoxicating liquors, cereal malt beverages, gasoline or firearms.
C. 
To designate any public street, shopping areas, thoroughfare or vehicle parking areas closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
D. 
To call upon regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations within or without the Township to assist in preserving and keeping the peace within the Township.
Any emergency proclaimed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall terminate after 48 hours from the issuance thereof, or upon the issuance of a proclamation determining an emergency no longer exists, whichever occurs first; provided, however, that such emergency may be extended for such additional period of time as determined necessary by Council.
[Amended 5-8-1973 by Ord. No. 613; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person who willfully fails or refuses to comply with an order of a duly authorized law enforcement officer or person charged with the responsibility of enforcing the proclamation of emergency or who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge 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 costs of prosecution. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.