WEST CHESTER, PA -- The Borough of West Chester, Pennsylvania is attempting to pass an ordinance that would outlaw singing, dancing, acting, reading, juggling, magic, mimes and more. Unlike some "busking ordinances", this ordinance will criminalize these activities for every person.
For instance, if you allow a 5-year-old to color with chalk on the sidewalk without a license, you both will be breaking the law.
If you obtain a license to perform music and kids start dancing, they will be breaking the law. If you write music without a license and kids start dancing, you all will be breaking the law.
Should you and your friends attend a peace rally or sporting event and sing the "Star Spangled Banner," you will be breaking the law.
If you read the First Amendment, you will be breaking the law. For that matter, if you read the busking ordinance, you will be breaking the law.
NEWS: Contact Borough of West Chester: email info@west-chester.com
Those interested in more information, please contact us below.
There is a public hearing at the West Chester Borough Hall on September 21, 2016 at 6PM.
West Chester Borough Hall
401 East Gay Street
West Chester, PA 19380
Gay Church is music made in America and forged on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution:
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion,
impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press,
interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.