PRINTER'S NO. 1955
No. 1548 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY LYNCH, BAKER, CAPPELLI, CAUSER, CAWLEY, CRAHALLA,
GILLESPIE, HENNESSEY, HORSEY, S. MILLER, RUBLEY, SHANER,
E. Z. TAYLOR AND WEBER, JUNE 5, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JUNE 5, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for disorderly
3 conduct.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5503(a) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 5503. Disorderly conduct.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of disorderly
10 conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance
11 or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
12 (1) engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or
13 tumultuous behavior;
14 (2) makes unreasonable noise;
15 (3) uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture;
16 [or]
17 (3.1) uses offensively course language or makes an
18 offensively coarse gesture to a public employee, police
1 officer, firefighter or emergency services worker while in
2 the performance of their duties; or
3 (4) creates a hazardous or physically offensive
4 condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of
5 the actor.
6 * * *
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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