This chapter shall be known as the "Carroll Township Disorderly
Practice Ordinance."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
OBSTRUCT
Any hazard or to render impassable without unreasonable inconvenience.
PERSON
Any natural person, association, partnership, firm, organization,
or corporation.
PUBLIC
Affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which
the public or a substantial group has access; not limited to, but
including, highways, alleys, thoroughfares, sidewalks, parks, transport
facilities, schools, apartment houses, places of business or amusement,
or any neighborhood.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Carroll, York County, Pennsylvania.
A person is guilty of disorderly practices if, with purpose
to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly
creating a risk thereof:
A. Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior;
B. Makes unreasonable noise or offensive, coarse utterances, gestures,
or display, or addresses abusive language to any person present, or
to any police officer;
C. Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act
which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor;
D. Appears in any public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol,
narcotics, or other drugs, not therapeutically administered, to the
degree that he may endanger himself or other persons or property or
annoy persons;
E. Having no legal privilege to do so, purposely or recklessly obstructs
any highway, street, alley, thoroughfare, sidewalk, or public ground
of the Township, whether alone or with others, except that no person
shall be guilty of violating this subsection solely because of a gathering
of persons to hear him speak or to otherwise communicate, or solely
because of being a member of a gathering; or
F. Refuses to obey a reasonable official request or order to move:
(1) To prevent obstruction of a highway, street, alley, or thoroughfare,
public passage or sidewalk; or
(2) To maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous
proximity to a fire or hazard.
This will also take in the old Ordinance No. 16-1971.
Any person 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. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. 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.