[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Wilkinsburg
7-31-1972 as Ch. XV, Part 1, of the 1972 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
PERSON
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
Includes any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
B.
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the
feminine and the neuter.
No person shall distribute any handbill or other advertising matter
or advertising device whatever in the Borough of Wilkinsburg by casting or
scattering the same upon any of the streets, sidewalks, alleys or public places
in the borough. This shall not prevent any person from handing any noncommercial
literature or other printed matter, upon any of the streets, sidewalks or
alleys in the borough, to any person willing to receive the same.
No person shall distribute any handbill or other advertising matter
or advertising device whatever in the Borough of Wilkinsburg without first
having procured from the Borough Manager a permit for such distribution. No
such permit shall be issued until the applicant therefor shall have paid the
permit fee, which shall be for the use of the borough and which shall be as
set forth from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council.[2] If any holder of any such permit shall be convicted of a violation of any provision of § 105-2 of this chapter, such permit shall be revoked by the Mayor, and no further permit shall be issued to such person until one (1) year shall have expired. No part of a permit fee shall be refunded when a permit shall have been revoked.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall, for
each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than six hundred dollars ($600.) and costs of prosecution
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not
more than thirty (30) days.
