[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of Shaler 12-14-1976 by Ord. No.
1405. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, while intoxicated,
to be on any street, lane, alley, public highway or other public place
within the limits of the Township of Shaler to the annoyance of any
of the peaceable inhabitants thereof.
It shall be unlawful for vagrants or any persons who have no
fixed place of residence to go about from place to place within the
limits of said Township or to trespass on private property to the
annoyance or disturbance of any of the peaceable inhabitants thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully to
make or cause to be made any loud, boisterous and unseemly noise or
disturbance near to any public highway, road, street, lane, alley,
park, square or common whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed
or the traveling public annoyed.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully to
create a disturbance of the public order by an act of violence or
by any act likely to produce violence or to address abusive language
or threats to any person present which creates a clear and present
danger of violence for the purpose of causing public danger, alarm,
disorder or nuisance or with the knowledge that he is likely to create
such public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully to
fail to obey a lawful order of a police officer to disperse or to
leave the area, where three or more persons are committing an act
or acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity and where
the police have made all reasonable efforts to stop the act or acts
of disorderly conduct and where, despite such efforts, there is an
imminent threat of violence should the order of dispersal not be obeyed.
If time permits, the police shall state the necessity for dispersal
to the person or persons ordered to disperse.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully to
damage, befoul or disturb public property or property of another so
as to create a hazardous, unhealthy or physically offensive condition
for the purpose of causing public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance
or with the knowledge that he is likely to create such public danger,
alarm, disorder or nuisance.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully to
commit a trespass on private property or on public property for the
purpose of causing public danger, alarm, disorder or nuisance or with
the knowledge that he is likely to create such public danger, alarm,
disorder or nuisance. "Trespass," for the purposes of this chapter,
shall mean entering upon or refusing to leave any private property
of another, either where such property has been posted with "No Trespassing"
signs or where, immediately prior to such entry or subsequent thereto,
notice is given by the owner or occupant, orally or in writing, that
such entry or continued presence is prohibited; or entering upon or
refusing to leave any public property in violation of regulations
of the Township or of the Shaler Area School District, where such
regulations have been conspicuously posted on such property or where,
immediately prior to such entry or subsequent thereto, such regulations
are made known, orally or in writing, by an official of said Township
or School District, his agent or a police officer.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully to
participate in any riot, rout, unlawful assembly or affray or willfully
to incite others to riot to the terror of the peaceable residents
nearby.
No person shall, by loud and excessive noise in the course of
any activity on private property, unreasonably disturb the peace of
others in the neighborhood, and no person shall knowingly permit such
conduct upon any premises owned or possessed by him or under his control.
In considering the unreasonableness of any such conduct, nuisance
or disturbance so occurring on private property and its effect on
disturbing the peace of others, the factors considered shall include
the time of day or night at which time such disturbance occurs, the
number of people involved, the proximity to others whose peace and
tranquility might be disturbed and the nature of the disturbance.
The police are empowered to give a warning if, in their judgment,
the disturbance is a breach of this section; and if the disturbance
shall not abate, the owner or one in possession or control of the
premises on which the disturbance occurs shall be arrested and charged
with violation of this section.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to loiter or
assemble with others upon or along the public streets, lanes, highways,
sidewalks or public places within the limits of the Township of Shaler
in such a manner as to interfere with, impede or annoy the traveling
public.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons willfully or
maliciously to deface, destroy or injure any tree, shrub, bush or
vine on or along any street, lane, alley or highway within the limits
of the Township of Shaler.
[Amended 11-15-1988 by Ord. No. 1631]
For each and every violation of the provisions of this chapter,
any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction for a summary offense by the issuing authority
for the magisterial district which includes the Township of Shaler,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $600
and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment thereof, may be
committed by the issuing authority to prison in conformity with the
Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
