[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Shippensburg Township as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-7-1978 by Ord. No. 78-5]
The following words or phrases, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
LIQUOR; MALT OR BREWED BEVERAGES; CONTAINER; OFFICIAL SEAL
Are defined as set forth in the Liquor Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1]
OPEN
When used in connection with a container, shall mean any container which has been perforated in the case of a can or similar container, or a container on which the cap has been loosened or the cork displaced and the official seal torn or mutilated.
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Editor's Note: See 47 P.S. § 1-101 et seq.
It shall be unlawful, within Shippensburg Township, for any person to drink liquor or malt or brewed beverages upon any public street, public municipal parking lot, private parking lot open to public use or public park, or in any vehicle being operated or parked thereon.
It shall be unlawful, within Shippensburg Township, for any person to have in such person's possession or in a vehicle under such person's control any open container containing liquor or malt or brewed beverages upon any public street, public municipal parking lot, private parking lot open to public use or public park.
The provisions of this article shall be severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining provisions of this article. It is hereby declared as a legislative intent that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal, or otherwise invalid provision not been included herein.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof 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 sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 for each violation plus costs of prosecution, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees, or, upon default of payment of fines, costs and/or restitution, by imprisonment for a period not to exceed 30 days. Each day upon which a violation exists shall constitute a new and separate violation of this article.