[Ord. 16-1993, eff. 6-28-1993; Ord. No. 15-2008, eff. 8-19-2008; Ord. No. 2-2018, § 24, eff. 2-15-2018]
(a) 
No person shall paste, paint, stamp or in any manner place, affix or attach to any building, fence, bridge, gate or any other public or private property any written, printed or painted advertisement, bill, notice, sign, card or poster, without first obtaining the written consent of the owner or other person lawfully in charge or control of property. This section does not prevent the posting of any notice required or permitted to be posted by law or order of court.
(b) 
The Department of Mobility and Infrastructure is hereby authorized and directed to make rules and regulations for the posting of directional signage within the public right-of-way. The Department is authorized to assess fees and prescribe procedures for the issuance of permits for the erection of the signs. The rules, regulations and fees and any amendments thereto shall be submitted to Council for its approval and become effective after due posting and advertising by the Director of Mobility and Infrastructure.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 601.02, which pertained to distributing handbills, samples, and other materials, was repealed by Ord. 14-2011, eff. 8-11-2011.
No person engaged in any business shall solicit customers in front of their place of business, by crying, commonly called "barking" their goods, either by themselves or by agents or employees, or by stopping or accosting persons and soliciting their patronage.
[Ord. 17-1991, eff. 5-24-1991; Am. Ord. 22-1998, eff. 10-1-1998; Ord. 24-2001, eff. 11-30-2001; Ord. No. 4-2011, § 1, eff. 3-9-2011; Ord. No. 28-2015, § 1, eff. 8-11-2015]
(a) 
Purpose: Excessive noise is a serious threat to the welfare, contentment, safety, health and the peace and quiet of the residents of the City. It is the intent of this Section to establish requirements to prevent excessive noise that may jeopardize the health and welfare of its residents or degrade their quality of life. This Section is not intended and shall not be interpreted to be a regulation of the content of speech or communication; this Section is intended to be entirely content-neutral; this Section regulates only the time, place and manner of noise as defined below.
(b) 
Definitions:
AMPLIFIED NOISE
Noise created by loudspeaker(s), audio amplification device(s), or other similar devices.
APARTMENT
A building containing multiple residential units.
BACKGROUND SOUND LEVEL
The measured sound level in an area, exclusive of extraneous sounds and the sound contributing of the specific source in question.
CONSTRUCTION
Any site preparation, assembly, erection, demolition, substantial repair, maintenance, alteration, or similar action for or of public or private rights-of-way, structures, utilities, or similar property.
dB(A)
The symbol designation of a noise level, reported in decibels, using the A-Weighting network of a sound level meter, as defined in ANSI S1.4—Specification For Sound Level Meters. For example, noise will be reported as seventy-two (72) dB(A). For purposes of this ordinance, the noise shall be measured using the slow exponential time weighting characteristic of the sound level meter.
DECIBEL
Unit of measure of the noise level. Symbol is dB.
INDIVIDUAL BACKGROUND NOISE SOURCES
Clearly identifiable noise sources including, but not limited to, barking dogs, airplane flyovers, passing cars/trucks, raised voices, televisions and radios. These sources shall not be present during noise measurements.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Means any vehicle that is propelled, generally by an engine or motor, used primarily for transporting persons or property on land.
NOISE or NOISE LEVEL (used interchangeably for purposes of this Section)
The terms noise and noise level may mean the sound that is capable of being measured as sound pressure level in decibels. Noise and noise level may also mean the sound that is clearly audible from a distance of seventy-five (75) feet or sound that annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities. This Section offers alternative methods to measure noise.
Noise levels relative to Tables A and B below will be recorded as the visual average for any continuous measurement period of thirty (30) seconds, and the maximum noise level measured at any time. The offending noise will be deemed to violate the provisions of Tables A and B below of this Section if the visual average exceeds the maximum allowable noise levels and/or the maximum noise level measured at any time exceeds the maximum allowable noise levels by five (5) dB(A) or five (5) dB(C).
PARK FACILITY
As defined in Pittsburgh Code Section 477.01(b)(2).
PERSON
Includes individual natural persons, firms, partnerships, joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, corporations, companies or organizations of any kind; or any officers, agents, employees, factors or any kind of personal representative of any kind of the above, in any capacity, acting either for her/himself, or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law. Whenever used in any provision prescribing or imposing a penalty, the term "person" as applied to partnerships or associations includes the partners or members thereof, and if applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
PLAINLY AUDIBLE
Any noise that clearly can be heard, however, words or phrases need not be discernible.
PREMISES
Any building, structure, land, including yards, lots, courts, inner yards owned or controlled by a person.
PROPERTY LINE
The real or imaginary line and its vertical extension which separates real property owned or controlled by a person from contiguous real property owned or controlled by another person and separates real property from the public premises.
RECEIVING PREMISES
All lands, and buildings or structures thereon, equipment or appurtenances connected or used therewith and any personal property affixed or otherwise used in connection with use of such premises affected by noise emanating from another premises.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
The units in any property in which people reside on a permanent or semi-permanent basis.
SPECIAL EVENT
A pre-planned event or series of events sponsored by a public or private person or entity which is:
(1) 
Located wholly or partially on property owned or maintained by the City; or
(2) 
Located on any other property and requires for its successful execution, the provision and coordination of municipal services to a degree equal to and/or over and above that which the City routinely provides.
Permits for special events currently are obtained through the Special Events Committee in the Office of the Mayor, and permit holders are required to reimburse the City forty (40) percent of the incremental personnel cost of services provided. Excluded from the definition of special event in this noise control Section and therefore subject to it are events where a fee is charged for admission to the premises or for the entertainment.
SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL
In decibels, ten (10) times the logarithm (to the base ten (10)) of the ratio of the square of a sound pressure to the square of the reference sound pressure of twenty (20) microPascals.
(c) 
Restriction of Noise Between Premises:
(1) 
Unamplified Noise. No person shall transmit or cause to be transmitted any unamplified noise, which leaves the premises from which it originates, and enters any residential property or premises in a residential zoning district:
(i) 
In excess of the noise levels specified below in Table A; or
(ii) 
Noise that is clearly audible from a distance of seventy-five (75) feet.
Table A
Maximum Allowable Noise Levels at Residential Property Receiving Premises
Daytime:
7:00 a.m.—10:00 p.m.
65 dB(A) or 3 above background sound level, whichever is greater
Nighttime:
10:00 p.m.—7:00 a.m.
55 dB(A) or 3 above background sound level, whichever is greater
(2) 
Amplified Noise. No person shall transmit or cause to be transmitted any noise created by loudspeaker(s), audio amplification device(s), or other similar devices which leaves the premises from which it originates, and enters any residential property or premises in a residential zoning district:
(i) 
In excess of the noise levels specified below in Table B; or
(ii) 
Noise that is clearly audible from a distance of seventy-five (75) feet.
Table B
Maximum Allowable Noise Levels at Residential Property Receiving Premises From Loudspeakers, Audio Amplification Devices, and Other Similar Devices
Daytime:
7:00 a.m.—10:00 p.m.
75 dB(A) or 3 above background sound level, whichever is greater
Nighttime:
10:00 p.m.—7:00 a.m.
75 dB(A) or 3 above background sound level, whichever is greater
(3) 
Noise Measurements for Use With Table A and Table B.
(a) 
Location of Noise Measurements. Noise levels shall be measured at the property line of a receiving premises if at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet or greater from the noise source. If the receiving premises property line is not at least twenty-five (25) feet from the noise source, the measurement will be taken within the property of the receiving premises at the lesser of twenty-five (25) feet from the noise source or the farthest possible distance from the noise source.
(b) 
Background Noise. The noise measurements to determine compliance with the noise levels in Table A and Table B, shall be taken in such a manner as to eliminate individual background noises. The measurement shall be of the offending noise source in the absence of such individual background noises. It is proper to take the measurements with general background noise present.
(d) 
Apartment to Apartment and Residence to Residence Noise.
(1) 
Noise Limit Above the Background Noise Level. No person shall transmit or cause to be transmitted any noise that leaves the residential property or premises from which it originates and enters any residential property creating noise levels:
(a) 
In excess of the background noise level in the complainant's residential unit at the levels specified in Tables A or B; or
(b) 
Noise that is clearly audible from a distance of seventy-five (75) feet; or
(c) 
Sound that annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
(e) 
Amplified Noise from Vehicles or Devices.
(1) 
No person shall transmit noise from a vehicle being operated on a public street, or alley, or in commercial or residential parking facilities, by playing any radio, tape player, compact disc player, loudspeaker, or other electronic device used for the amplification of music or other entertainment, or other machine or device designed or intended to produce or reproduce sound, which is plainly audible to an officer at a distance of seventy-five (75) feet from the source of the noise.
(2) 
This provision also includes portable, hand-carried audio amplification or reproduction devices including, but not limited to, hand-carried radios, cassettes, or compact disc players, 3M players, cellular telephones, iPods, or digital devices.
(3) 
Vehicles with permits for activities consistent with the transmission of amplified noise shall be exempt from this section.
(f) 
Exemptions. A person shall be exempt from this section provided that:
(1) 
The noise is being generated to request assistance or warn of a hazardous situation; or
(2) 
The noise emanates from an authorized emergency vehicle or a vehicle operated by a gas, electric, communication or water utility; or
(3) 
The noise emanates from a bell, chime or similar device used by a school or religious institution; or
(4) 
The noise emanates from lawn care and other household maintenance equipment and tools used between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.; or
(5) 
The noise is being generated by construction activities properly permitted in the City of Pittsburgh; or
(6) 
The noise is in connection with a parade, or "special event" (as described in Section 601.04(b) above) that is being conducted under a parade or special event permit issued by the City and is otherwise in compliance with the applicable sections of the Pittsburgh Code provided that the maximum allowable noise level in the applicable subsection is not exceeded between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.;
(7) 
The noise is being generated by the crowd at a sporting event or other event being conducted pursuant to a permit issued by the City; or
(8) 
The noise is being generated from the engine of a motor vehicle that is subject to regulation exclusively by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in PA Code Title 67 Transportation and Title 75 Vehicles; or
(g) 
(Reserved)
(h) 
Instrumentation. When using Tables A, B, or C, noise levels shall be measured using a sound level meter that meets or exceeds the requirements for Type 1 or Type 2 instruments as defined in ANSI S1.4—Specification for Sound Level Meters.
(i) 
Penalties.
(1) 
Any person violating any provision of this section, unless otherwise specified in this Section, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) and costs for each offense, and in default of payment thereof may be imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days.
(2) 
Violation of Section 601.04(e)(1) shall result in the mandatory fine of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for a first-time violation and a mandatory three hundred dollar ($300.00) fine and booting of a vehicle for the second offense. Booting of the vehicle shall occur if the fine from the first violation is outstanding. The owner of the vehicle shall be responsible for all costs associated with the booting.
(3) 
In addition to any penalty provided or imposed, violation of any provision in this Section is a public nuisance, disturbing the peace and injurious to the public interest, and may be fully or partially abated forthwith.
(4) 
In addition to any penalty provided or imposed, violation of any provision in this Section is a public nuisance, disturbing the peace, and injurious to the public interest, and may be fully or partially abated forthwith, and may subject the offending property owner(s) to additional penalties pursuant to Pittsburgh Code Chapter 670 Disruptive Property Abatement.
[Ord. 55-1991, eff. 12-31-1991]
(a) 
Registration Required. All charitable, beneficial, benevolent or religious organizations or institutions intending to solicit funds from the general public in the City by means of personal representatives, or collectors shall register with the Department of Police.
(b) 
Registration Information. Registration shall contain the following information:
(1) 
The name of the organization or institution, its aim and purposes;
(2) 
Local and national address and phone numbers;
(3) 
Names and residence addresses of each officer, together with complete list of names and residence addresses of any board of managers or directors;
(4) 
Names of persons authorized to solicit, residence addresses and terms of their employment.
(c) 
Current Listing of Solicitors. The information required in subsection (b) hereof shall be furnished annually to the Department during the month of January, except the names of persons authorized to solicit shall be furnished to the Department at least twenty-four (24) hours before they begin to solicit collections, and shall be verified by the affidavit of at least two (2) persons connected with the organization or institution stating they are personably familiar with the facts and that they are correct.
(d) 
Annual Financial Statement Required. Any registered organization or institution shall, annually within sixty (60) days after January 1, file with the Department a sworn statement setting forth the total contributions and income from all sources received during the preceding year ending December 31, together with a detailed statement of expenditures, including cost of management and operation, and the amount expended or given to its purposes or objects during such period.
(e) 
Tag Days. The personal solicitation of the general public on the public streets or other public places by solicitors or collectors and so called "tag days" are hereby prohibited. However, any registered organization or institution which has complied with this section may, on application to the Police Department, receive a permit, which shall not be granted more than once in each year, to station collectors on the streets at fixed points or in booths, for the purpose of receiving voluntary contributions from the public. The purpose for which the contributions are being received shall be printed on signs, boards or cards, conspicuously displayed by each collector. Solicitations for contributions for personal use by the collectors shall be deemed a sufficient cause for the revocation of the permit.
(f) 
Permit Fee. The fee for a charitable solicitations permit shall be fifty dollars ($50.00).
[Ord. 29-1989, eff. 12-29-1989]
(a) 
No person employed or engaged in the business of a masseur or masseuse shall massage, offer or solicit to massage a person of the opposite sex. Each act of massage, offer or solicitation to massage shall constitute a separate offense and is punishable as hereunder.
(b) 
No person shall own, operate, manage or have any interest, direct or indirect, in a place of business where a masseur or masseuse massages, offers or solicits to massage a person of the opposite sex. Each day the violation is committed or permitted to continue constitutes a separate offense and is punishable as hereunder.
(c) 
The provisions of this section shall not apply to massage treatments given:
(1) 
In the office or upon the written order of a licensed physician, osteopath or chiropractor;
(2) 
In a regularly established medical center, hospital or sanitarium;
(3) 
In the residence of a person under a doctor's care by direction of the doctor; and
(4) 
By members of the American Massage Therapy Association, in good standing, or organizations who can demonstrate comparable educational and training requirements.
(a) 
No person shall keep, operate or be employed at any place or establishment where alcohol or liquor is sold without a license to do so.
(b) 
No person shall patronize any place or establishment where alcohol or liquor is sold without a license to do so.
(c) 
No person who has legal or equitable ownership in any property in the City shall knowingly permit such property to be used as a place or establishment where persons are engaged in the unlicensed sale of alcohol or liquor.
[Ord. 23-1994, eff. 1-1-1995; Ord. No. 21-2009, § 1, eff. 11-18-2009; Ord. No. 36-2009, § 1, eff. 1-31-2010]
(a) 
Prohibited Conduct. No person shall consume alcoholic beverages or carry or possess an open container of alcoholic beverages in the public right-of-way, or on private property without the consent of the landowner or tenant, except that this prohibition shall not apply to block parties held under special permit issued by the Department of Public Works and in accordance with regulations issued pursuant thereto.
(b) 
Penalties. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to: A fine not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) and in default thereof, imprisonment not exceeding seventy-two (72) hours.
(c) 
This section shall be known as the "Open Container Law"
[Ord. 21-1990, eff. 10-22-1990]
(a) 
It is the purpose of this section to regulate vending machine sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products because Council does hereby find and declare that:
(1) 
Cigarette smoking and the use of tobacco in other forms is dangerous to human health; and
(2) 
The Director of the National institute on Drug Abuse has concluded that the majority of Americans who die each year from cigarette smoking and other tobacco use became addicted to nicotine as adolescents before the age of legal consent; and
(3) 
A significant number of children under the legal age who purchase cigarettes and other tobacco products do so through vending machines.
(b) 
Except as provided in subsection (c) hereof, no person, firm or corporation shall distribute or sell cigarettes and other tobacco products by the use of a vending machine, or install or maintain a vending machine with the intent to make such distributions or sales, unless the vending machine may be operated exclusively by insertion of tokens, available for purchase on the premises.
(c) 
Cigarette or tobacco vending machines of any type may be maintained upon the premises of:
(1) 
A private business establishment licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and/or a privately owned and operated club or association requiring a paid membership;
(2) 
Private facilities not accessible to the general public, including, but not limited to nursing homes and senior citizens facilities; or
(3) 
A work place, including, but not limited to factories, private businesses, offices or other private facilities not open to the general public.
However, no cigarette or tobacco vending machine shall be placed in a doorway or any other area which is readily accessible to minors.
(d) 
No person, firm or corporation shall sell, give, furnish or otherwise make available to any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years any token for insertion into a vending machine.
(e) 
For the purpose of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings given herein:
(1) 
TOKEN
Any metal or other materials fashioned in the shape of coins, but excluding currency of the United States of America, which serve to operate any vending machine, as defined in this section.
(2) 
VENDING MACHINE
Any automated self-service device which, upon insertion of money, token or other form of payment, dispenses cigarettes or other tobacco products.
(f) 
The Department of Public Safety shall conduct random undercover investigations for the purpose of enforcement of the provisions of this section and all other state laws regarding the illegal distribution of tobacco to youth. The Department shall annually (January) report to Council its findings and activities.
(a) 
No person shall spit or expectorate upon any sidewalk or upon the floors of any public place or conveyance.
(b) 
Every corporation or person owning or controlling or having the management of any public building, street car, bus or other public conveyance shall keep conspicuously and permanently posted at all times in such buildings and conveyances notices forbidding expectoration and warning against violating the provisions of this section and stating the penalty for each violation.
[Ord. 25-1991, eff. 7-15-1991; Ord. 8-2002, § 1, eff. 4-2-2002; Ord. No. 26-2021, § 1, eff. 9-22-2021]
(a) 
Definitions.
(1) 
LITTER
All garbage and rubbish, loosely strewn, unpackaged, and uncontained which includes but is not limited to paper, bottles, cans, glass, plastic, rubber, disposable packages, cigarette butts and other tobacco products, gum and containers.
(2) 
ILLEGAL DUMPING
The disposal of debris at a site other than an accredited destination cited in the Allegheny County Solid Waste Management Plan of 2019, or any subsequent revisions. Dumped debris may include but is not limited to upholstered furniture, mattresses, carpets, yard waste, wood debris, organic material, vehicle parts and tires, shopping carts, and:
a. 
APPLIANCES
as defined in § 619.01(a).
b. 
BULKY ITEMS
as defined in § 619.01(b).
c. 
COVERED DEVICES
as defined in § 619.01(g).
d. 
DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION WASTE
as defined in § 619.01(h).
e. 
HAZARDOUS WASTES
as defined in § 619.01(j).
f. 
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTES
as defined in § 619.01(k).
g. 
MUNICIPAL WASTE
as defined in § 619.01(q).
(b) 
Littering Prohibited.
(1) 
No person shall knowingly throw, place, drop or deposit litter onto any public place, right-of-way, vacant lot, private premise, sewer, or into the waters in the city.
(2) 
Any person violating this provision shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00) and/or ordered to perform community restitution in the neighborhood where the violation(s) occurred.
(c) 
Trash Container Requirement at Banking Operations and Other Businesses.
(1) 
All banking operations and other businesses that own or operate automated teller machines (ATM's) and/or device(s) that dispense paper into the public right-of-way shall supply a trash receptacle no greater than two (2) feet away from said ATM(s).
(2) 
Any banking operation or other business violating this provision shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00) and/or ordered to perform community restitution in the neighborhood where the violation(s) occurred.
(d) 
Illegal Dumping Prohibited.
(1) 
No person shall willfully abandon, deposit, or dump debris onto any public place, right-of-way, vacant lot, private premise, sewer, or into the waters in the city.
(2) 
Any person violating these provisions shall be fined no less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and/or ordered to perform community restitution in the neighborhood where the violation(s) occurred. Every day the violation persists shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. 15-1979, eff. 5-29-1979; Am. Ord. 37-1990, eff. 12-28-1990]
No person shall in any way interfere or cause or permit any interference with any City officer, employee or agent in their official duties.
[Ord. 10-1980, eff. 7-3-1980; Am. Ord. 37-1990, eff. 12-28-1990]
(a) 
At least one (1) price sign per gasoline station, service station or other retail gasoline outlet is required whether illuminated or otherwise. The sign shall be prominently placed and be easily read from a passing motor vehicle operator on abutting streets. The size of the sign shall be a minimum of twelve (12) square feet or four (4) square feet for each grade of fuel. A sign permit shall be required in accordance with Title 9, Zoning and Title 10, Building.
(b) 
Should a gasoline station, service station or other retail gasoline outlet sell leaded gasoline fuel, at least one (1) octane level price in a unit price increment shall be displayed in numerals no smaller than ten (10) inches tall on the sign. Should a gasoline station, service station or other retail gasoline outlet also sell unleaded gasoline fuel, at least on octane level price, in a unit price increment shall also be displayed in numerals no smaller than ten (10) inches tall, on the sign. Should a gasoline station, service station or other retail petroleum outlet also sell diesel fuel, at least one (1) price of fuel in unit price increment shall be displayed in numerals no smaller than ten (10) inches tall on the sign.
(c) 
Should a gasoline station, service station or other retail gasoline outlet be out of any type of gasoline posted the price shall be replaced with the word "out" in letters no smaller than ten (10) inches tall on the sign.
(d) 
Should a gasoline station, service station or other retail gasoline outlet charge for a service previously offered free, the price of the service shall be displayed in numerals no smaller than five (5) inches tall on the sign.
[Ord. No. 26-2009, § 2, eff. 9-28-2009; Ord. 25-1991, eff. 7-15-1991; Am. Ord. 30-1994, eff. 12-16-1994; Ord. 8-2002, § 1, eff. 4-2-2002]
(a) 
Any person violating any provision of this Chapter, unless otherwise specified in this section shall be fined a minimum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) plus court costs for an initial violation and up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) plus court costs for each additional violation.
(b) 
Any person violating § 601.13 shall be fined up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) plus court costs. Each day the condition continues shall constitute a separate offense.
(c) 
Any owner of a multi-family dwelling six (6) units or larger or any commercial, institutional or municipal establishment violating § 601.11(a) shall be fined a minimum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) plus court costs for an initial violation and a maximum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) plus court costs for each additional violation. Each day such condition continues shall constitute a separate offense. Any person, firm or corporation violating § 601.11(b) or (c) shall be fined a minimum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) plus court costs and a maximum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) plus costs or a minimum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) plus court costs and a maximum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) plus court costs for subsequent offenses.
(d) 
All banking operations and other businesses found in violation of Section 601.11 subsection (d) will be fined up to one hundred dollars ($100.00) plus court costs.
(e) 
Any person violating § 601.16 shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500.00) plus court costs for each violation.
[Ord. 25-1991, eff. 7-15-1991]
(a) 
The City Controller is hereby authorized and directed to establish a special trust fund known as the Illegal Dumping Trust Fund for the receipt and deposit of the fines resulting from violations of § 601.11. A portion of the funds shall be used specifically for rewards, public awareness and costs associated with the investigation and surveillance of illegal dumping activity.
(b) 
The Director of Public Safety shall grant rewards up to the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to individuals, organizations or other entities who provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of any individual, firm or corporation violating § 601.11.
(c) 
The rewards shall be granted from the Department of Public Safety Community Crime Prevention Trust Fund, the Illegal Dumping Trust Fund or such other Trust Fund or Code Account within the Department of Public Safety, as the Director shall deem appropriate.
[Ord. No. 26-2009, § 1, eff. 9-28-2009]
(a) 
Definitions:
APPROPRIATE SANITARY FACILITY
means a urinal, toilet, commode or other facility that accommodates or is designed for the sanitary disposal of human bodily fluids or waste and that is enclosed from public view.
PUBLIC PLACE
means any walkway, street, highway, sidewalk, building façade, bridge, overpass, alley or alleyway, plaza, park, driveway, transportation facility, park, recreational area, parking lot, vacant or undeveloped lot or the stairwells, alcoves, doorways and entrance ways to such places.
(b) 
Prohibited Conduct.
(1) 
Any person who urinates or defecates in, on, or about any of the following places, other than in an appropriate sanitary facility, commits a violation:
a) 
Any public place.
b) 
Any private property into or upon which the public is admitted by easement or license; or
c) 
Any private property without the consent of the owner.
(2) 
It is a separate violation for any person who has urinated or defecated in, on, or about any public place, other than in an appropriate sanitary facility, to fail to clean or remove the material deposited immediately, or to fail to dispose immediately of the material used in the cleaning or removal process in a container designed for such disposal.
[Ord. No. 14-2021, § 1, eff. 5-12-2021]
(a) 
Legislative Findings.
(1) 
The population of the City is a diverse community of people of every race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability. Many among the population of the City, as individuals or as part of a group, have been subjected to acts motivated by hatred toward their actual or perceived characteristics.
(2) 
The commission of criminal acts motivated by hatred toward an individual's or a group's actual or perceived characteristics is contrary to laws and policies of the City of Pittsburgh.
(3) 
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has enacted, as part of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, Title 18, "Crimes and Offenses, Assault" a Chapter 27, entitled "Ethnic Intimidation" to make an additional offense the commission of certain there-specified crimes against persons or property "with malicious intention toward the race, color, religion or national origin of another individual or with malicious intention toward the race, color, religion or national origin of another individual or group of individuals."
(4) 
The City finds that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has not included within its definition of "Ethnic Intimidation" crimes motivated by hatred toward the actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability of an individual or group of individuals.
(b) 
Declaration of Policy.
(1) 
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City, in the exercise of its powers for the protection of the public safety and the general welfare, for the maintenance of peace and good government and for the promotion of the City's trade, commerce and manufacturers, to assure the right and opportunity of all persons to participate in the social, cultural, recreational and economic life of the City, free from fear and free from criminal acts against them because of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability; and
(2) 
It shall be the public policy of the City to prohibit, and to make an additional offense the commission of certain specified crimes motivated by hatred toward an individual's or a group's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania having already made in its Crimes Code an additional offense regarding specified crimes motivated by hatred toward an individual's or a group's actual or perceived race, color, religion or national origin.
(c) 
Scope and Jurisdiction. This Section applies to the commission of certain offenses under Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, against an individual or group of individuals or the property of an individual or group, because of the actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability of such individual or group of individuals, committed within the territorial limits of the City.
(d) 
Definitions. As used in this Section, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context. Applicable definitions set forth in Section 651.04 shall apply as well in this Section 601.17.
(1) 
HATE CRIME
Commission of an offense under Title 18, Chapter 25 (relating to criminal homicide), Chapter 27 (relating to assault), Chapter 29 (relating to kidnapping), Chapter 31 (relating to sexual offenses), Chapter 33 (relating to arson, criminal mischief and other property destruction), or Section 3503 (relating to criminal trespass) of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, against an individual or group of individuals or the property of an individual or group, accompanied by Malicious Intent as defined in subsection (d)(2) hereof.
(2) 
MALICIOUS INTENT
The commission of any offense referred to in subsection (d)(1) above, because the actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or disability, as such terms are defined by Section 651.04 of this Code, of another individual or group of individuals.
(e) 
Prohibited Conduct. No person shall commit a Hate Crime with Malicious Intent against another individual or group of individuals.
(f) 
Penalties. Violation of this Section constitutes a summary offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to ninety (90) days and a monetary fine not to exceed the maximum amount for summary offenses.
(g) 
Severability. Severability is intended throughout and within the provision of this Section. If any provision, including, inter alia, any exception, paragraph, phrase or term, or the application, thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the application to the persons or is circumstances shall not be affected thereby and the validity of this Section in any and all other respects shall not be affected thereby.
[Ord. 22-1991, eff. 6-28-1991]
(a) 
Definitions. As used in this section, certain terms are defined as follows:
(1) 
NEGATIVE OPTION BILLING
A business practice whereby a provider of goods or services provides such goods or services without any prior agreement of or a request from the recipient and then bills or otherwise attempts to collect payment from the recipient for such goods or services. NEGATIVE OPTION BILLING shall not include isolated instances where a provider mistakenly provides goods or services to a recipient and shall not include any tax or fee charged by a governmental or quasi-governmental entity.
(2) 
GOODS
Any tangible or intangible things or items of value.
(3) 
SERVICE
Any labor, activity or action of value.
(b) 
Negative Option Billing Prohibited. The use of negative option billing by any individual or any business entity, organization or association is prohibited. Any person that receives goods or services as a result of a billing practice that has been judicially determined to be negative option billing has no obligation to pay for or return such goods or services. Any person who suffers a loss as a result of a negative option billing practice may bring a private action to recover actual and other damages.
(c) 
Exceptions. This section shall not apply to any goods or services provided in an emergency situation or in a situation that the provider of the goods or services reasonably believed to be an emergency.
(d) 
Violation and Penalty. Any individual, or any business entity, organization or association violating this section shall be fined up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each violation, plus costs. Every day that a negative option billing plan is in effect shall constitute a separate violation.
[Ord. No. 29-2013, § 1, eff. 11-21-2013]
(a) 
Purpose: City Council seeks to reduce underage possession and consumption of alcohol by imposing penalties on those person(s) who host events where persons under twenty-one (21) years of age possess or consume alcohol.
(b) 
Definitions: As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) 
CONSTRUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge which a person is presumed by law to have, regardless of whether he or she actually does, where that knowledge is obtainable by the exercise of reasonable care.
(2) 
GATHERING
An assembly for a social occasion or other activity. A gathering shall not include assemblies on the licensed property of a retail intoxicating liquor or three and two-tenths (3.2) percent malt liquor licensee, municipal liquor store, or bottle club permit holder who is regulated by 47 P.S. § 744-307.
(3) 
HOST
A person who owns, leases or is in possession and control of the residential property where a gathering takes place.
(4) 
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, corporation or any association of one (1) or more individuals.
(5) 
UNDERAGE DRINKING
Any gathering involving the serving of alcoholic beverages to a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years and/or the consumption of alcoholic beverages by a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years.
(c) 
Prohibited Conduct. A host may not, knowingly or with constructive knowledge, conduct or accommodate a gathering including underage drinking.
(d) 
Penalties. Any host who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to: A fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) and in default thereof, imprisonment not exceeding seventy-two (72) hours.
(e) 
Exceptions.
(1) 
It will be an affirmative defense to a violation of subsection (c) that the conduct was part of a legally protected religious observance.
(2) 
It will be an affirmative defense to a violation of subsection (c) that the defendant is a parent or guardian of the underage person and the defendant gave or furnished the alcoholic beverage to that person solely for the consumption in the defendant's household.
(f) 
Severability. If any provision of this section or the application to any person or circumstance is held invalid in a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity does not affect other provisions. Any other application of this section which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and for this purpose the provisions of this section are declared severable.
[Ord. No. 39-2017, § 1, 9-14-2017]
(a) 
No person shall occupy or use the roof or roof overhang of a building when such roof is not designed and permitted for such occupancy by the City Building Code, except when performing repairs or maintenance of the roof or in an emergency situation, or where expressly permitted by a lease agreement.
(b) 
All other sections, parts and provisions of the Code of the City of Pittsburgh shall remain in full force and effect as previously enacted and amended.