[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Nottingham 11-16-1970 by Ord.
No. 16. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct himself in a
disorderly manner within the Township of Nottingham.
Disorderly conduct within the limits of Nottingham Township
shall be and is hereby defined as any act, word or conduct causing
or tending to cause a disturbance of the peace and order of the Township,
or causing or tending to cause danger, discomfort or annoyance to
the inhabitants of the Township or users of its highways and shall
include the discharge of firearms having a single pellet or of air-
or gas-operated guns, except by residents of this Township who are
bona fide farms or except in accordance with the issuance of a written
permit by the Chief of Police, loafing, fighting, drunkenness, vagrancy,
begging, the making of unnecessary noises, profanity, or indecent
language, gambling, visiting a house of ill fame or gambling or other
illegal purposes, reckless or careless driving or any other use of
vehicles by owners or occupants thereof as shall endanger the safety
or interfere with the comfort and convenience of any person using
the highways of, or residing in the Township of Nottingham.
[Amended 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 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.[1]
