The Council of the City of Philadelphia hereby finds:
(1) That there are increasing incidences of disturbances to the public enjoyment of sporting and other entertainment events at public places of assembly, restaurant/entertainment districts and city permitted festivals and parades, caused by disorderly and drunken persons; 342
(2) That although the conduct prescribed by this Chapter entails behavior that is also violative of the penal laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the resources currently available to the Criminal Justice System are insufficient for controlling the prescribed activities in a cost efficient manner, and that, with the exception of aggrievous circumstances, may be inappropriate for regulating certain undesirable individual conduct and activity;
(3) That it is desirable to control what might otherwise be an unmanageable volume of cases in our criminal courts and that in most instances out of fairness to our citizens the stigma created by criminal prosecutions can be avoided;
(4) That the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to its police powers, is authorized to regulate individual conduct and activity outside of the criminal justice system, and an administrative process for the adjudication of certain Code violations is an efficient, fair and reasonable alternative thereto; and
(5) That a system of administrative adjudication of certain Code violations should provide for the proper separation of the administrative and executive functions from the adjudicating functions in the enforcement process and promote a fair and expeditious system for the disposition of violations.
Notes
| 342 | Amended, 1994 Ordinances, p. 683. |