As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ABODE
One's residence, home or place.
ACTOR
A person committing any act.
ACT or ACTION
Any bodily movement, whether voluntary or involuntary.
ASSAULT
An attempt or offer, with unlawful force or violence, to hurt or
do physical injury to another.
BATTERY
The actual doing of an unlawful hurt, however slight; an unlawful
laying of hands upon the person of another, no matter how light the touch.
BOROUGH ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Any person who is, by virtue of authority vested in him or her by
the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Shrewsbury, required to enforce any
of the laws, codes and regulations of the Borough of Shrewsbury.
BREACH OF THE PEACE
Any violation of public order as amounts to a disturbance of the
general community.
CONDUCT
Any act, action or omission and its accompanying state of mind.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Those acts or omissions that tend to breach the peace or cause a
risk thereof, which include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
fighting; violent behavior; unreasonable noise; offensive or coarse utterances,
gestures or displays; the addressing of abusive language to another or the
creation of a hazard or physically offensive condition; or any act or omission
that tends to endanger the morals, safety or health of the community or a
class of persons or a family.
DISORDERLY HOUSE
Any house, building or structure where acts are performed that tend
to corrupt the morals of the community or to promote a breach of the peace,
or any place kept for the purpose of public resort for thieves, drunkards,
prostitutes or other idle and vicious people, whether there is any actual
disturbance of the public peace or quiet and includes any place where unlawful
and illegal practices are habitually carried on.
DRUNKENNESS
Any person who appears under the influence of alcohol or any intoxicating
beverages not therapeutically administered.
DWELLING
Any building or structure, though movable and temporary, or a portion
thereof, which is for the time being a person's home or place of lodging.
FIREARM
Any pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun, automatic and
semiautomatic rifle, or any gun or device or instrument in the nature of a
weapon from which may be fired or ejected a solid projectile, ball, slug or
pellet.
HINDER
To hamper, delay, hold back, impede or prevent action.
INDECENCY
Any act morally offensive or tending to debauch the morals.
INTERFERENCE
To intentionally hinder or be in opposition to, or to come into collision
with.
INTOXICATION
An impairment of mental or physical capacities resulting from the
influence of alcohol, narcotics or other drugs.
LEWD
Anything that is wanton, lustful, vulgar or obscene.
LODGE
To provide temporary quarters for, or to establish or settle in a
place.
LOITER
Being without any visible and lawful business or purpose and without
being able to give a satisfactory account of oneself. This shall also include
prowling or being in a place at a time not usual for individuals, under circumstances
that warrant alarm for the safety of persons and/or property in the vicinity.
OBSTRUCT
To render impassable with unreasonable hazard and inconvenience.
OFFENSIVE WEAPON
Any bomb, machine gun, sawed-off shotgun or firearm specially made
or specially adapted for concealment or silent discharge, or any blackjack,
sandbag, metal knuckles, dagger or other implement for the infliction of serious
bodily harm which serves no common lawful purpose.
OMISSION
Failure to act; something neglected or left undone.
PERSON
Any natural person and, where relevant, includes a corporation, partnership
or unincorporated association.
PUBLIC CONVEYANCE
Any vehicle used in the general conveyance of passengers for a fee.
QUASI-PUBLIC PLACE
Any place, privately owned, but to which the public is invited, which
shall include, but not be limited to, the following: commercial, industrial
and business properties, stores, restaurants, bars, retail business establishments
and their adjoining or related parking areas.
WEAPON
Any item readily capable of lethal use and possessed under circumstances
not manifestly appropriate for lawful uses which it may have; the term includes
a firearm which is not loaded or lacks a clip or other component to render
it immediately operable, and components which can readily be assembled into
a weapon.
No person shall, within the limits of said Borough, make or continue,
or cause to be made or continued, or permit any unnecessary noise, either
physical, mechanical, electrical or electronic, which shall disturb the comfort,
rest or repose of any person or persons being in his or her or their place
or places of abode.
No person shall, within the limits of said Borough, sweep, discard,
deposit, throw or leave any wastepaper, tin cans, bottles, garbage or refuse
of any kind whatsoever in or upon any parking place, street, road, avenue,
park or other public place, or upon any empty lot or vacant fields or other
premises, except in receptacles or containers provided for such purpose. Nothing
contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the placing of leaves, branches
and other natural debris at the curbline for Borough disposal.
No person shall, within the limits of said Borough, use or operate,
or cause to be used or operated, a loudspeaker, sound wagon, public-address
system or other similar sound-producing device or apparatus in, on, about
or near any public street, highway, park, building or other public place,
without first making written application to and obtaining the permission of
the Mayor and Council, said application to set forth the name and address
of the applicant and of the person who is to operate the said loudspeaker,
sound wagon, public-address system or other similar sound-producing device
or apparatus, the purpose for which the same is to be employed, the specific
time it will be in use and the approximate proposed range of audibility of
the apparatus sought to be used. The Mayor and Council shall thereupon cause
an investigation to be made and, if satisfied that the granting of the permit
will not constitute a nuisance or be inimical to the peace, good order or
quiet of the Borough, shall issue a written permit to the applicant. No person
shall use or operate any such loudspeaker, sound wagon, public-address system
or other sound-producing device or apparatus in such a manner that its range
of audibility shall be greater than that named in the application for its
use.
No person shall, within the limits of said Borough, paste, write, clip,
paint, print, nail, clamp or otherwise fasten, inscribe or affix any notice,
placard or advertisement against or upon any way, gate, house, store, shop,
shed, fence, rock, stump, tree, shrub, bush, building, structure or utility
pole without the consent of the owner or occupant of the same and in accordance
with other ordinances of the Borough.
All fines imposed and collected under and by virtue of this chapter
shall be paid into the treasury of the Borough of Shrewsbury.
Each and every person violating any of the provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than $50 nor more
than $1,250, a term of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a period of community
service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof.