Title 18, CRIMES AND OFFENSES

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.

(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 …

(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…

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 …

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, wago…

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.

(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 …

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he enters or causes to be entered for competition, or competes for any purse, prize, premium, stake or sweepstake, offered or given by any agricultural or other society, association, or person, any horse, mare or gelding, colt or filly, …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if he administers drugs or stimulants with the intent to affect the speed of horses in races where there is a monetary award offered. Cross References. Section 7102 is referred to in sections 9318, 9323 of Title 3 (Agricultu…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he races, runs, paces or trots any horse, mare or gelding for money, goods or other valuable things, or contributes or collects any money, goods or valuable things to make up a purse therefor, or pri…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he pretends for gain or lucre, to tell fortunes or predict future events, by cards, tokens, the inspection of the head or hands of any person, or by the age of anyone, or by consulting the movements …

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, being a licensed keeper, proprietor, owner or superintendent of any public poolroom or billiard room except as otherwise provided in this section for cities of the first class, permits such place to remain open on Sunday or between t…

Every person who operates a motion picture theater, when showing a motion picture rated as being suitable for viewing for adults only, shall not sell to a minor under 16 years of age an admission ticket or pass, or shall not admit such minor for a monetary consideration to the th…

(a) Offense defined.--An athlete agent shall not do any of the following: (1) Enter into an oral or written agent contract or professional sport services contract with a student athlete before the student athlete's eligibility for collegiate athletics expires. (2) Give, offer or …

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he distributes or deposits any package, parcel, or sample of any medicine, dye, ink, or polishing compounds, in any form of preparation, upon the ground, sidewalks, porches, yards, or into or under doors or windows …

(a) Sale.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if he manufactures, sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to distribute or sell, for use as a heating fuel any mixture or preparation of solidified alcohol which contains more than…

(a) Offense defined.--No person shall, for the purpose of causing a condition of intoxication, inebriation, excitement, stupefaction, or the dulling of his brain or nervous system, intentionally smell or inhale the fumes from any noxious substance or substance containing a solven…

(a) Use prohibited.--It shall be unlawful for any building used for private, public or parochial school purposes, or any bus being used for the transportation of school children, to be equipped with or to have available for use a fire extinguisher containing carbon tetrachloride,…

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he sells gasoline in a glass container.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if he owns, manufactures, sells, transfers, uses or possesses any incendiary device or similar device or parts thereof, including but not limited to a "molotov cocktail." (b) Exception.--The provisions …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he sells or exchanges on the open market any goods, wares or merchandise prepared, wholly or in part, or manufactured by convicts or prisoners of other states, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation.

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he publishes or prints in any newspaper, magazine, periodical, circular, letter, pamphlet, or in any other manner, or publishes by radio or television broadcasting, any advertisement or other notice…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree if he, being engaged in the business of financing the purchase of real or personal property or of lending money on the security of real or personal property, requires, as a condition precedent to financ…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he, being a manufacturer, broker, wholesaler, retailer or agent of any manufacturer, broker, wholesaler or retailer, offers any policy of insurance free of cost as an inducement to any person to purc…

(a) Assignments of claims.--It is lawful for a collection agency, for the purpose of collecting or enforcing the payment thereof, to take an assignment of any such claim from a creditor, if all of the following apply: (1) The assignment between the creditors and collection agency…

(a) Offense defined.--Any person engaged in the business of debt pooling shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to: (1) Any person who is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania o…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of buying or exchanging Federal SNAP benefit coupons, stamps, authorization cards or access devices if he, not being authorized to do so by the United States Department of Agriculture, buys or exchanges Federal SNAP benefit coupo…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the offense of fraudulent traffic in SNAP benefits if he, whether acting for himself or for another, directly or indirectly, furnishes or delivers to any person money, merchandise, or anything other than food, on or in exchange for a SNAP be…

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, whether acting for himself or for another, directly or indirectly willfully makes any unauthorized disposition of any food commodity donated under any program of the Federal Government or if he, not being an authorized recipient ther…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he keeps, or causes to be kept, any bucket-shop, or assists in the keeping of any bucket-shop. (b) Corporate penalty.--If a corporation is convicted, its charter shall be forfeited by a proceeding in…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he transmits or communicates by telegraph, telephone, wireless, telegraphy, express, mail, or otherwise or if he receives, exhibits, or displays, in any manner, any statement or quotation of the pric…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he knowingly permits a bucket-shop, as defined in section 7316(e) of this title (relating to definition of bucket-shop) to be maintained or operated in any premises owned, leased, controlled, or oper…

(a) Status of contracts.--All contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions of the nature of a bucket-shop as defined in section 7316(e) of this title (relating to definition of bucket-shop), are hereby declared gambling, and criminal acts, and null and void. (b) Offense defined…

A person is guilty of a summary offense if he places or affixes or inserts, or causes to be placed or affixed or inserted, any advertisement, notice, circular, pamphlet, card, handbill, book, booklet, or other printed notice of any kind, on or in or to any newspaper, magazine, pe…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if he requires as a condition for employment or continuation of employment that an employee or other individual shall take a polygraph test or any form of a mechanical or electrical lie detector test. …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he, being an officer or employee of any employer of labor, solicits, demands or receives, directly or indirectly, from any person any money or other valuable thing, for the purpose, actual or alleged, of either obtaining …

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree if, being the proprietor, manager, or employee of a theatre, hotel, restaurant, or other place of public entertainment or amusement, he discriminates against any person wearing the uniform of the armed forces of the United …

(a) Definitions.--As used in this section: (1) "Assignment" means any specific written, recorded, pictorial, artistic, or other academic task that is intended for submission to any university, academy, school or other educational institution which is chartered, incorporated, lice…

(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, being the proprietor, manager or employee of a theatre, hotel, restaurant or other place of public accommodation, entertainment or amusement, refuses, withholds or denies any person, who is using a service, guid…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if he discloses, except to authorized persons for official governmental purposes, any tax information that is: (1) designated as confidential by a statute or ordinance of a city of the second class; and (2) …

(a) Storage.--A person commits a summary offense if he stores or permits storage by others of liquor or malt or brewed beverages for the purpose of consumption between the hours of 2 a.m. and 8 a.m. on business premises owned, operated, leased or controlled by such person which a…

(a) Offense defined.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if that person operates an establishment commonly referred to as a bottle club in a municipality or part of a split municipality where the operation of such establishments has been disapproved by the voters …

(a) Offense defined.--No bottle club operator or servants, agents or employees of the same shall knowingly permit on premises used as a bottle club or in any place operated in connection therewith any lewd, immoral or improper entertainment. (b) Penalty for violation.--Any person…

2002 Repeal. Section 7330 was repealed December 16, 2002 (P.L.1953, No.226), effective in 60 days.

A person that operates without a license in violation of 7 Pa.C.S. § 6111 (relating to license requirements) commits a felony of the third degree. (July 8, 2008, P.L.796, No.56, eff. 120 days) 2008 Amendment. Act 56 added section 7331.

(a) Failure to meet operational requirements.--A tow truck operator or the operator of a towing storage facility commits an offense if the operator: (1) fails to maintain a physical street address accessible to the public during posted business hours; (2) operates a tow truck wit…