§ 121-3. Offenses against public peace., Chapter 121. Peace and Good Order, Part II. General Legislation, Code of Ordinances, Sunbury

Disorderly conduct. No person in the City shall disturb, tend to disturb or aid in disturbing the peace of the general public by violent, tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous conduct, and no person shall knowingly permit such conduct upon any premises owned or possessed by him or under his control.

Harassment. No person in the City shall, with the intent to do so, harass, annoy or alarm another by.

(1)

Attempting, threatening or subjecting another person to unwanted physical contact.

(2)

Engaging in a course of conduct or repeated acts which serve no legitimate purpose. Said acts can be either verbal or nonverbal.

Fighting. No person in the City shall fight another person except in boxing exhibitions duly authorized and licensed under law.

Vagrancy. No person in the City shall have the status or condition of a "vagrant." The following persons shall be deemed vagrants:

(1)

No lawful means of support. Any person having no lawful means of support realized solely from lawful occupations or sources; or any person who lives idly and without visible means of support.

(2)

Any person found idling, lingering, standing, strolling in, near or upon any public area or privately owned property or commercial establishment which is posted in a manner prohibiting such loitering shall be guilty of loitering, a summary offense.

[Amended 11-27-2000]

(3)

Burglars; tools. Any person upon whose person or in whose possession shall be found any instrument, tool or other implement for picking locks or pockets, or any implement that is usually employed or that reasonably may be inferred to have been designed to be employed in the commission of any felony, misdemeanor or the violation of any ordinance, and who shall fail to account satisfactorily for the possession of the same.

(4)

Unlawful occupancy. Any person occupying, lodging or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed, shop or other building or structure, in any vacant lot or in any automobile, truck, railroad car or other vehicle, without owning the same or without permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession of the same.

(5)

Begging. Any person wandering abroad and begging; or any person who goes about from door to door of private homes or commercial and business establishments, or places himself in or upon any public way or public place to beg or receive alms for himself.

(6)

Abroad at unusual hours. Any person who wanders about the streets, alleys or other public ways or places, or who is found abroad, at late or unusual hours in the night without any visible or lawful business and not giving a satisfactory account of himself.

(7)

Illegal association. Any person who keeps, operates, frequents, lives in or is employed in any house or other establishment of ill fame, or who (whether married or single) engages in or commits acts of fornication or perversion for hire.

(8)

Illegal employment. Any person who frequents or loafs, or idles in or around, is the occupant of or is employed in, any gambling establishment or establishment where intoxicating liquor is sold without a license.

(9)

Fraudulent schemes. Any person who shall engage in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain money or other valuable thing from others; or any person who aids or assists such trick, device or scheme.

(10)

Concealing stolen property. Any person who keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed.

(11)

All persons who by the common law are vagrants, whether embraced in any of the foregoing classifications or not.

Unlawful to disturb religious worship. No person in the City shall disquiet or disturb any congregation or assembly for religious worship by making a noise or by rude or indecent behavior or profane discourse, within their place of worship or so near the same as to disturb the order or solemnity of the meeting.

It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and illegal for any person to drink in a public place in the City of Sunbury, and such conduct is hereby prohibited. For purposes of this subsection "drinking" means consuming or holding an open or partly consumed container of alcoholic beverage of any nature or having in one's possession an open or partly consumed container of alcoholic beverage of any nature. For purposes of this subsection "public place" means any place to which the public has access and includes all streets, highways, roads, alleys, sidewalks and parks and parking lots as well as vacant private property not owned by or under the control of the person charged with violating this Subsection F, and all other public areas. It also includes the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, theater, tavern or other places of business. This subsection shall not apply to drinking of alcoholic beverages by an owner of private property and/or his guests upon such private property, nor to drinking of alcoholic beverages by guests or patrons on the premises of an establishment holding a valid liquor license issued by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.

[Added 3-14-1983 by Ord. No. 1048]

(1)

Notwithstanding the foregoing Subsection F, the City Council shall have the authority by resolution to permit open containers of alcohol on public property. This special exception shall be limited to social events conducted by a nonprofit organization which has full authority to conduct the event as authorized by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. In addition, there shall be a showing of acceptable insurance and other documents as required by the City for protection of the interests of the City.

[Added 8-14-2006]