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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 19:03:10+00:00

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§ 176-1 Purpose and findings.
§ 176-3 Declaration of nuisance gathering.
§ 176-6 Violations and penalties.
Nuisances — See Ch. 175.
Events and gatherings held on private or public property where persons gather and where neighborhood disturbances, destruction and defacing of property, violence and hazardous conditions result constitute a threat to peace, health, safety and welfare of the community that require prevention, response to, and/or abatement.
The hosts or other organizers of a gathering or event are deemed to be responsible for the activities of their guests and visitors on the site of the gathering event.
Any group of 10 or more persons who have assembled or gathered together for a social function or other activity on public or private property whether indoors or outdoors.
To aid, conduct, allow, entertain, organize, supervise, control, or overtly permit a gathering or event.
As defined by Title 18, Pennsylvania Crimes Code § 6310.6.
Any individual, partnership, co-partnership, corporation, or any association of one or more individuals.
Any home, yard, fraternity house, farm, field, land, apartment, condominium, hotel or motel room, or other dwelling unit, or a hall or meeting room, park, or any other place of assembly, public or private, whether occupied on a temporary or permanent basis, whether occupied as a dwelling or specifically for a party or other social function, and whether owned, leased, rented, or used with or without permission or compensation. Premises licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board are excluded from the definition of "premises" for purposes of this chapter.
Any individual under 21 years of age.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 6310.6.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 5503.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 6308.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 5505.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 6310.1.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 6501.
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. § 3304.
Open lewdness or indecent exposure (Section 5901 or Section 3127 of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code - Title 18).
Editor's Note: See 18 P.S. §§ 5901 and 3127.
The within chapter shall not apply to any event or gathering held for political or religious purposes, regardless of size, whether held indoors or outdoors and whether held on public or private property.
Any premises owner, occupant, tenant, or other person having any possessory control, individually or jointly with others, of any premises who sponsors, conducts, hosts, invites, or overtly permits an event or gathering that at any time of the event or gathering becomes an unlawful public nuisance as defined in § 176-3 is hereby deemed to have committed a violation of this section.
Assistance request exemption. Any premises owner, occupant, tenant, or other person having any possessory control, individually or jointly with others, of any premises who requests assistance from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Police to prevent a gathering from becoming a nuisance gathering as set forth herein shall not be considered to have violated this chapter. This exemption may only be obtained one time in any three-hundred-sixty-five-day period.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this chapter, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this chapter continues or each section of this chapter which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
In addition to fine, any person or entity who violates § 176-5 may be assessed the cost of reimbursing local law enforcement, fire services, EMS, ambulance or other provider who responds to calls or renders assistance at the nuisance gathering .
A penalty provided for under Subsection A of this section may be imposed in addition to any penalty that may be imposed for any other criminal offense arising for the same conduct.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, word, or other portion of this chapter is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional or invalid, in whole, or in part, by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed severable, and such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter, which remaining portions shall continue in full force and effect.

References: § 176

§ 176
 § 6310
 § 6310
 § 5503
 § 6308
 § 5505
 § 6310
 § 6501
 § 3304
 § 176
 § 176