As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
LOITERING
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include
the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly
and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public has access and shall include
any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include
the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern
or other place of business and public grounds, areas, parks, as well
as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned by or under
the control of the person charged with violating this chapter or,
in the case of a minor, not owned or under the control of his parent
or guardian.
[Amended 6-11-1990]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or fail to
comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof before any Magisterial District Judge, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $300 and costs of prosecution
and/or suffer imprisonment for up to 180 days, or both. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a new and
separate offense, and the person or persons allowing the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
If any section of this chapter shall be declared unconstitutional,
the same shall not affect the validity of any other section or sections
of this chapter.