18 Pa.C.S. Ch. 69

18 Pa.C.S. Ch. 69
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18 Pa.C.S. § 6901 Extension of water line.

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he, without first securing a permit from the water company or municipality or municipal authority supplying such person with water, shall convey, or permit or procure another to convey, any part of such water by means of pipe, hose or other conduit to any building, residence or structure beyond the limits of the tract occupied by such person.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6902 Willful obstruction of emergency telephone calls.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he willfully refuses to relinquish immediately a party line when informed that the line is needed for an emergency call to a fire department or police department or for medical aid or ambulance service, or if he secures the use of a party line by falsely stating that the line is needed for an emergency call. (b) Notice to public.--Every telephone directory distributed to the members of the general public in this Commonwealth, or in any portion thereof, which lists the calling numbers of telephones of any telephone exchange located in this Commonwealth, shall contain a notice which explains the offense provided for in this section. The notice shall be printed in type which is not smaller than the smallest other type on the same page, and to be preceded by the word "warning" printed in type at least as large as the largest type on the same page. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to those directories distributed solely for business advertising purposes commonly known as classified directories. Any person, providing telephone service which distributes, or causes to be distributed, in this Commonwealth copies of a telephone directory violating the provisions of this subsection, shall be guilty of a summary offense. (c) Definitions.--As used in this section the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection: "Emergency." A situation in which property or human life are in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential. "Party line." A subscriber's line telephone circuit, consisting of two or more main telephone stations connected therewith each station with a distinctive ring or telephone number.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6903 Railroad employee abandoning train.

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, being a locomotive engineer or other railroad employee engaged in any strike, or with a view to incite others to such strike or in furtherance of any combination or preconcerted arrangement with any other person to bring about a strike, abandons the locomotive engine in his charge, when attached either to a passenger or freight train, at any place other than the scheduled or otherwise appointed destination of such train, or refuses or neglects to continue to discharge his duty, or to proceed with said train to the place of destination.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6904 Interfering with railroad employee.

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, in aid or furtherance of the objects of any strike upon any railroad, interferes with, molests or obstructs any locomotive engineer or other railroad employee engaged in the discharge and performance of his duty as such.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6905 Nails and other hard substances attached to utility poles.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he drives a nail or tack or attaches any metal or hard substance to or into any pole of any public utility pole line. (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to: (1) the public utility or its licensee using the poles from affixing its metal or other markers or from otherwise using the poles in its public service; or (2) the erecting traffic signs and other signs similar thereto by a municipality when authorized by statute or by the owner of such poles.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6906 Erection of crossing signboards.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he erects or maintains any device or sign in the form of railway-crossing signboards on or near any of the public highways of this Commonwealth, or if he permits such a device or sign to remain on or near the public highways of this Commonwealth, unless such sign or device is erected under a permit from the Department of Transportation, which shall approve the location, construction, and design of such sign or device. (b) Exception.--The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to crossing signboards erected or maintained by any railroad or railway company.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6907 Obstructing public crossings.

It shall be a summary offense for any railroad to obstruct or block up the passage of any crossings of a highway, or obstruct such crossings, with its rolling stock. If any engineer, or any member of the train crew, or other agent of any such railroad, shall obstruct or block up such crossings, he shall be guilty of a summary offense.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6908 Obstructing private crossings.

It shall be a summary offense for any railroad to continue to obstruct or block up the passage of any private crossing, wherever any private road or crossing-place may be necessary to enable the occupant or occupants of land or farms to pass over the railroad with livestock, wagons and implements of husbandry, after the railroad shall have received at least 15 minutes verbal notice to remove its rolling stock, or other obstructions from any such private road or crossing-place.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6909 Lights obstructing view of signals.

It shall be a summary offense to locate, maintain, or allow to remain, any light in such a place or manner that such light interferes with the view of any railroad signal to an extent which causes danger in the operation of trains.

18 Pa.C.S. § 6910 Unauthorized sale or transfer of tickets.

(a) Sale of tickets.--A person, not possessed of authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he sells, barters, or transfers, for any consideration whatever, the whole or any part of any ticket or tickets, passes, or other evidences of the title of the holder to travel on any public conveyance, whether the same be situated, operated, or owned within or without the limits of this Commonwealth. (b) Disposition by passenger.--Every person, being a passenger for hire, to whom has been issued a nontransferable ticket valid in full or part payment of fare for passage upon any public conveyance operated upon the same or any other line or route, or any person into whose possession any such ticket may come, who shall sell, barter, give away, or otherwise transfer the same, and every person who shall offer for passage any such ticket which was not issued to any person so offering it, is guilty of a summary offense.
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