[Adopted 11-16-1995 by Ord. No. 1205[1] (Ch. 36, Art. II, of the 1966 Code)]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch. 36, Art. II, of the 1966 Code, Obstructing Streets or Sidewalks, adopted 4-6-1908 by Ord. No. 193.
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Loitering Ordinance."
It is hereby found with consistency, on certain days and times, that persons remaining idle, lingering, spending time idly, loafing or walking about in one vicinity or neighborhood, or "hanging around," gives rise to a threat to the public peace and causes annoyance, obstructs free passage and offends the passing public.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
LOITERING
Remaining idle essentially in one location; lingering; spending time idly; loafing or walking about aimlessly in one vicinity or neighborhood; or "hanging around."
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public has access, including any public street, the front of and the area immediately adjacent to any school, parking lot, store, restaurant, tavern or other place of business.
No person shall loiter in a public place in such manner as to:
A. 
Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace.
B. 
Create or cause to be created any annoyance to any person or persons.
C. 
Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
D. 
Obstruct, molest or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place, as defined in § 382-9 of this article. This shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to, or in whose hearing, they are made.
Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in § 382-8 of this article, any police officer may order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 plus costs.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. The following ordinance is specifically repealed: Ordinance No. 193, adopted April 6, 1908.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Clearfield Borough Council that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
This article shall become effective upon entry in the Borough Ordinance Book.