Commonwealth v. Heggenstaller

TAMILIA, Judge:

Dennis Heggenstaller takes this appeal, pro se, from the May 10, 1996 judgment of sentence imposing an aggregate fine in the amount of $6,591.25 entered following the summary proceeding in which appellant was convicted of failing to pay $1.25 per month on his telephone bill for 911 emergency services in direct violation of a Centre County Ordinance.1

According to the record, Centre County enacted the ordinance establishing a per-dial-tone rate of $1.25 for the 911 public safety emergency communications fee as approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. The telephone…