[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Folcroft 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 659 (Ch. 6, Part 2, of the 2006 Code of Ordinances). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
Ethyl alcohol of any degree of proof originally produced
by the distillation of any fermented liquid, whether rectified or
diluted with or without water, whatever may be the origin thereof,
and shall include synthetic ethyl alcohol but shall not mean or include
ethyl alcohol, whether or not diluted, that has been denatured or
otherwise rendered unfit for beverage purposes.
All public parks located within the Borough of Folcroft.
Any individual, whether a resident or nonresident of the
Borough of Folcroft, and whether male or female.
All property owned by the Borough of Folcroft.
Every way or place, in whatever nature, located within the
Borough of Folcroft, open to the use of the public as a matter of
right, for the purposes of vehicular or pedestrian travel.
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully consume in
or upon public ways, parks, places or property within the Borough
of Folcroft any beverage containing any percentage of alcohol whatsoever.
The possession of an open container containing a beverage with
any percentage of alcohol whatsoever in and upon the public ways,
parks, places or property of the Borough of Folcroft shall be prima
facie evidence of consumption of such beverage in violation of this
chapter.
[Amended 12-10-1990 by Ord. No. 835; 11-21-2006 by Ord. No. 990]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this chapter, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100 for the first offense
and not less than $50 not more than $1,000 plus costs for the second
and each subsequent offense in any three-hundred-sixty-five-day period
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this chapter continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
