It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm, partnership
or corporation to bring or cause to be brought into the City of Shamokin
or to buy, sell or cause to be sold or bought or to advertise, lend,
give away, offer, show, exhibit, post up or distribute or cause to
be distributed or to design, copy, draw, photograph, print, etch or
engrave, cut, carve, make, publish or otherwise prepare or assist
in preparing or receive subscriptions for any book, pamphlet, paper,
magazine, picture, drawing, figure, image or other engraved, printed
or written matter which may reasonably tend to incite riot or other
public disorder or which advocates disloyalty to or the overthrow
of the government of the United States of America or of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by means of any artifice, scheme or violence or which
urges any unlawful conduct or encourages or tends to encourage a breach
of the public peace or good order of the community or which is offensive
to public morals or decency or which contains blasphemous, obscene,
libelous or scurrilous language.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Shamokin 9-19-1950 by Ord. No. 27 (Ch. 67 of the 1967 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 6-11-1990]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or fail to
comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof before any Magisterial District Judge, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $300 and costs of prosecution
and/or suffer imprisonment for up to 180 days, or both. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a new and
separate offense, and the person or persons allowing the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this
chapter and the application of such provision to other persons or
circumstances shall not be affected thereby, and, to this end, the
provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.
Words and phrases in this chapter shall be construed according
to rules of grammar and according to their common and approved usage.