§ 121-7. Offenses involving morals., Chapter 121. Peace and Good Order, Part II. General Legislation, Code of Ordinances, Sunbury

Prostitution.

(1)

Committing. No person in the City shall commit or offer or agree to commit a lewd act or an act of prostitution of sexual perversion.

(2)

Securing. No person in the City shall secure or offer another person for the purpose of committing a lewd act or an act of prostitution or sexual perversion.

(3)

Frequenting. No person in the City shall be in or near any place frequented by the public, or any public place, for the purpose of inducing, enticing or procuring another to commit a lewd act or an act of prostitution or sexual perversion.

(4)

Meretricious display. No person in the City shall make a meretricious display in or near any public place, any place frequented by the public or any place open to the public view.

(5)

Transportation. No person in the City shall knowingly transport any person to any place for the purpose of committing a lewd act or an act of prostitution or sexual perversion.

(6)

Permitting. No person in the City shall knowingly receive, or offer or agree to receive, any person into any place or building for the purpose of performing a lewd act, or an act of prostitution or sexual perversion, or to knowingly permit any person to remain in any place or building for any such purpose.

(7)

Directing. No person in the City shall direct or offer to direct any person to any place or building for the purpose of committing any lewd act or act of prostitution or sexual perversion.

(8)

Aiding. No person in the City shall aid, abet, allow, permit or participate in the commission of any of the acts prohibited in this Subsection A.

Vulgar language. No person in the City shall use vulgar, profane or indecent language on any public street or other public place or in any public dance hall, club dance, skating rink or place of business open to the public patronage.

Editor’s Note: Former Subsections B and C, concerning solicitation of drinks and lodging accommodations, respectively, were repealed 7-9-2018. This ordinance also renumbered former Subsections D through J as Subsections B through H.

Indecent exposure. No person in the City shall publicly expose his person or make any indecent gestures.

Windowpeeping. No person in the City shall look, peer or peep into a dwelling house or other building occupied wholly or in part as a residence within the City, with the intent of watching or looking through a window to observe any person undressed or in the act of undressing, or with the intent to do any other wrongful act.

Gambling. Except as otherwise allowed by the laws of Pennsylvania:

(1)

Participation prohibited. No person in the City shall engage in a game of chance to win or gain money or other property of value.

(2)

Possession of materials. No person in the City shall have in his possession any evidence of illegal gambling in the nature of policy or pool tickets, slips, checks or memoranda of any combination or bet or any policy wheel, dice, implement, apparatus or material of any form of gambling or lottery.

(3)

Owner of premises. No person being the owner or person in control of premises in the City shall knowingly permit the use or occupancy thereof for gambling.

Animals.

(1)

Cruelty to animals. No person in the City shall overwork, cruelly beat, mutilate, needlessly kill or otherwise cruelly or inhumanely treat, or carry or transport in any vehicle or other conveyance in a cruel and inhumane manner, any animal; or cause any of these acts to be done.

(2)

Food and shelter. No person in the City shall fail to provide any animal in his charge or custody with necessary sustenance, drink and protection from the elements, or cause any of these acts to be done.

(3)

Abandonment. No person in the City shall abandon any animal or cause such act to be done.

(4)

Fight upon exhibition. No person in the City shall maintain any place where fowl or any animals are suffered to fight upon exhibition or for sport upon any wager.

(5)

Poisoning. No person in the City shall poison any domestic animal or dog or cat or distribute poison in any manner whatsoever with the intent or for the purpose of poisoning any such animal, dog or cat.

(6)

Indecent exhibition of animals. No person in the City shall exhibit any animal indecently.

Lookouts for illegal acts. No person in the City shall act as a guard or lookout for any building, premises or establishment used for gambling, prostitution or any other form of vice or illegal act, or where intoxicating liquors are illegally kept, sold or purchased, or for any person soliciting, offering or engaging in prostitution, gambling or any other form of vice or illegal act, or any prostitute, on any street or sidewalk, nor shall any person give any signal intended to, or calculated to, warn or give warning of the approach of any peace officer to any person in or about such building or premises or places mentioned herein.

Sexual predators.

[Added 7-10-2006]

(1)

A sexual predator shall be defined for purposes of this subsection according to the Pennsylvania statute which defines a sexually violent predator under Registration of Sexual Offenders, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9792 as a person who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense as set forth in Registration of Sexual Offenders, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9795.1 (relating to registration under state law quoting the state registration section number), and who is determined to be a sexually violent predator under Registration of Sexual Offenders, 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 9795.4 (relating to assessments under the state law section), due to a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses. The term includes an individual determined to be a sexually violent predator where the determination occurred in the United States or one of its territories or possessions, another state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a foreign nation or court martial.

[Amended 7-27-2009]

(2)

It is unlawful for a sexual predator to be physically present within 1,000 feet of any school, bus stop, child care facility, city sports recreation area, the Sunbury Youth and Community Center, park, playground, arcade, movie theatre, athletic field, public library, skate park, public tennis court, pool, ice rink, YMCA, homeless shelter, motel and bed-and-breakfast.

[Amended 7-27-2009]

(3)

This residency restriction shall not apply to a sexual predator who resided within those restricted areas prior to passage of the subsection. The residency restriction shall apply to the areas specified in the subsection above if new construction of an area where children regularly congregate should be completed.

(4)

Penalties. A person who violates this subsection shall receive a citation for a summary offense and be subject to punishment issued by the District Magistrate or the Court of Common Pleas. The fine shall not exceed $500 and imprisonment not to exceed 60 days.

(5)

The City shall notify any interested governmental agency and the public of any violation of this subsection following a determination of guilt by the District Magistrate or the Court of Common Pleas.