Commonwealth v. Mervis

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 178
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 338

Syllabus

<p>'Municipalities — Ordinance—Police regulations — Parades and- meetings — Class legislation — Discrimination.</p> <p>A municipality, under its general police power has a right to enact an ordinance forbidding street parades and meetings unless written notice of the object, time, place and route of the parade or meeting shall be given to the proper city authorities, and authorizing such authorities to designate the route of the parade and portion of streets to be occupied; but such an ordinance is invalid if it discriminates in favor of certain organizations where there is no natural or legitimate reason for such discrimination.- Thus an ordinance of the kind in question which excepts from its operation parades or meetings of Grand Army posts and the State National Guard, is invalid.</p>