In the event that any payment tendered by a
check or other written instrument on any account owing to this Borough
is returned for insufficient funds, there is hereby authorized the
imposition of a service charge to be added to that account owing to
the Borough in the sum of $20 per check or other written instrument
so returned, and the principal of such account shall be increased
accordingly.
A.
For the purposes of this section, "malicious mischief"
shall be defined and considered as any malicious or mischievous physical
injury either to the property or rights of another or to those of
the public in general, and without the consent of the owner.
B.
Without excluding any act not named in this section,
the following acts, within the Borough, shall constitute malicious
mischief:
(1)
Damaging a building by explosion.
(2)
Burning crops, timber or grass.
(3)
Altering or removing a signal or light from a railroad
or exhibiting false lights or signals.
(4)
Maliciously injuring, destroying, defacing or removing
any milestone, post, guidepost or street marker, bridge, private way,
pier, tree, rock, post or other monument for designating property,
telegraph or telephone wire or cable or appurtenances belonging thereto,
pipe or main for conducting gas or water and appurtenances thereto,
electric lines, lamps, posts and appurtenances thereto, sewer or drain
or pipe connected therewith, fire hydrants, hose or appliances, fire
extinguishers, danger posts and guideposts.
(5)
Entering upon the garden, orchard or improved cultivated
or enclosed lands of another and willfully or wantonly severing, destroying,
carrying away or injuring the trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, moss,
turf, grain, grass, hay, fruit or vegetables thereon.
(6)
Digging, taking or carrying away earth, soil or stone
from the land of another.
(7)
Placing any structure upon the land of another.
(8)
Breaking plate glass windows or doors of another.
(9)
Breaking, defacing or injuring any house of religious
worship.
(10)
Connecting any tube, pipe, wire or other instrument
with any instrument used for conducting gas, fuel, electricity or
water in such manner as to use such gas, fuel, electricity or water
without the same passing through a meter or other instrument.
(11)
Altering, injuring or preventing the action of a meter,
valve, stopcock or other instrument used for measuring quantities
of gas, electricity or water.
(12)
Breaking, defacing or causing to be broken or defaced
the seal on any water meter.
(13)
Loosening the brake or blocking of any car standing
on any railroad track in the Borough.
(14)
Taking or carrying away any coal or other fuel from
any railroad car or environs in the Borough.
(15)
Knowingly or willfully destroying or carrying away
the rails or boards, wood or other lumber of another, or tearing down
or removing any structure or part thereof, or destroying or removing
therefrom any plumbing, electrical equipment or other appurtenances.
(16)
Maliciously destroying, injuring or secreting real
or personal property of another.
(17)
Wantonly or unnecessarily removing, cutting, injuring
or destroying any tree, shrub, vine, moss or turf growing or being
located upon any public lands of any character whatsoever, including
all public parks and the entire rights of way of all public highways,
roads, streets and alleys.
(18)
For any chauffeur or any other person in like capacity
to use the automobile of another without the owner's permission or
consent.
(19)
Willfully topping, cutting, burning, breaking down,
injuring, destroying or otherwise interrupting or interfering with
the current, lines, cables, poles, towers, fixtures or appliances
of any telephone or telegraph company or electric light or power company
or municipality engaged in furnishing communication, light, heat or
power by electricity; or in any way injuring, removing, destroying
or interfering with any gas, water or electrical fixtures or appliances.
C.
No person
shall ride, park, or place in any position a bicycle, skateboard or
other apparatus used for riding or recreation on any publicly owned
artificial grass surface within the Borough.
D.
No person
shall ride, park, or place in any position a bicycle, skateboard or
other apparatus used for riding or recreation on any publicly owned
ramp or other walkway used for handicapped access to a public building.
