The Borough Council of the Borough of Manheim, finding that
excessive levels of sound are detrimental to the physical, mental
and social well-being of the people as well as to their comfort, living
conditions, general welfare and safety, and being, therefore, a public
health and welfare hazard, hereby declares it to be necessary to provide
for the greater control and more effective regulation of excessive
sound and the sources of excessive sound within the Borough of Manheim.
It shall be illegal within the Borough of Manheim for any person
or persons to own, possess, harbor or control any animal or bird which
makes any noise continuously and/or incessantly for a period of 10
minutes or makes such noise intermittently for 1/2 hour or more to
the disturbance of any person at any time of the day or night regardless
of whether the animal or bird is physically situated in or upon private
property, said noise being a nuisance, provided that at the time the
animal or bird is making such noise no person is trespassing or threatening
to trespass upon private property in or upon which the animal or bird
is situated nor is there any other legitimate cause which justifiably
provoked the animal or bird.
This article shall not be deemed to prohibit or otherwise declare
unlawful any agricultural operations protected from nuisance suits
by Act No. 133 of 1982.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $600 and, in default of payment, to imprisonment
for a term not to exceed 30 days.