Section 705.04 prohibits visiting, occupying or frequenting any house and behaving in a loud, tumultuous or disorderly manner to the disturbance of peaceable residents nearby. Section 705.01 separately criminalizes loud, boisterous and unseemly noise. Both reinforce Article 717.01 and state law 18 Pa.C.S. Section 5503.
Loud-party enforcement in Bethlehem rests on Article 705 (Disorderly Conduct). Section 705.01 makes it a disorderly-conduct offense to willfully make any loud, boisterous and unseemly noise or disturbance to the annoyance of peaceable residents nearby, whereby the public peace is broken. Section 705.04 (Disorderly Houses) bars any person from visiting, occupying or frequenting any house and behaving in a loud, tumultuous or disorderly manner to the disturbance of peaceable residents nearby. The disorderly-house rule reaches hosts and guests, which is the key tool around Lehigh University and Moravian University rentals. State law at 18 Pa.C.S. Section 5503 supplies a parallel summary charge.
Section 705.99 penalties: first violation $100 or 30 days or both; second $300 or 60 days or both; third and each subsequent $600 or 90 days or both. Parallel charges under 18 Pa.C.S. Section 5503 and Section 717.99 are available.
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