[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough of Council of the Borough
of Milford 8-8-1952 by Ord. No.
121, approved 8-8-1952 (Ch. 80 of the 1979 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The practice of going in and upon private residences in the
Borough of Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania, by solicitors, peddlers,
hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise not
having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners,
occupant or occupants of said private residences for the purpose of
soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise and/or
disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same is declared to be
a nuisance and punishable as such nuisance as a summary offense.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the sale or
soliciting of orders for the sale of bread and baked goods, milk,
dairy products, vegetables, poultry, eggs and farm and garden produce,
so far as the sale of the commodities named herein is now authorized
by law.
[Amended 6-18-1979 by Ord. No. 222; 11-7-1988 by Ord. No. 264; at time of adoption of
Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter
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 chapter
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 chapter in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Pike County.
