[Ord. No. 702,
§ 1, 5-29-1974]
It shall be unlawful for any person within a residential zone,
or within a radius of 500 feet therefrom:
(1) Construction. To operate equipment or perform any outside construction
or repair work on buildings, structures or projects or to operate
any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer, derrick, steam or
electric hoist, or other construction-type device except to perform
emergency work between the hours of 8:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00
a.m. of the next day in such a manner that a reasonable person of
normal sensitiveness residing in the area is caused discomfort or
annoyance.
(2) Motor repairs. To repair, rebuild or test any motor vehicle between
the hours of 8:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00 a.m. of the next day in
such a manner that a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness residing
in that area is caused discomfort or annoyance.
(3) Unusual noises. To willfully make or continue, or cause to be made
or continued, any loud, unnecessary, or unusual noise which disturbs
the peace and quiet of any neighborhood or which causes discomfort
or annoyance to any reasonable person of normal sensitiveness residing
in the area.
[Ord. No. 702,
§ 2, 5-29-1974]
The standards which shall be considered in determining whether a violation of the provisions of Section
14-1 exists shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(2) The intensity of the noise;
(3) Whether the nature of the noise is unusual or usual;
(4) Whether the origin of the noise is natural or unnatural;
(5) The volume and intensity of the background noise, if any;
(6) The proximity of the noise to residential sleeping facilities;
(7) The nature and zoning of the area within which the noise emanates;
(8) The density of inhabitation of the area within which the noise emanates;
(9) The time of the day or night the noise occurs;
(10) The duration of the noise;
(11) Whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent or constant;
(12) Whether the noise is produced by commercial or noncommercial activity.
[Ord. No. 214,
§ 1, 11-9-1953]
It is hereby made unlawful for any person to place or permit
the placing outside of any building or dwelling in a place accessible
to children any abandoned or unattended icebox, refrigerator or other
container of any kind having an airtight door or a lock of any kind
which cannot be opened from the inside of such icebox, refrigerator
or container.
[Ord. No. 169,
§ 1, 10-1-1951]
Disorderly practices within the limits of the Township shall
be and are hereby defined as any act, word or conduct causing or tending
to cause a disturbance of the peace or good order of the Township,
or causing or tending to cause any danger, or annoyance to the inhabitants
of the Township or users of highways and public places in the Township,
and shall include loafing, fighting, drunkenness, vagrancy, begging,
the making of unusual and unnecessary noises, profanity or indecent
language, and any other conduct of a similar nature whereby the public
peace is broken or disturbed.
[Ord. No. 574,
§§ 3, 5, 6-9-1969]
(a) Prohibited. It shall be unlawful to carry on or maintain any offensive
manufacturing or business or any activity anywhere within the Township
where the same shall constitute a nuisance in fact.
(b) Notice to abate. Whenever it is found that any person maintains any
nuisance or nuisances in fact or maintains any unsafe or dangerous
building structure or appurtenance within the Township, the Township
Council shall serve notice to that effect upon the person maintaining
such nuisance. Such notice shall describe the conditions complained
of and shall require the same to be made safe, to be corrected or
to be removed.
(c) Abatement by Township; collection of costs. Should such person fail,
neglect or refuse to make such conditions safe, or to correct or remove
it to the end that the same shall not constitute a nuisance in fact,
the Council may abate or cause such nuisance to be abated, and the
expenses of such abatement shall be paid by such person. The cost
of such abatement, correction or removal of such nuisance shall be
collected from such person by the Council by summary proceeding to
be brought before a Justice of the Peace in the Township.
[Ord. No. 152,
§§ 1, 2, 7-10-1950]
(a) Sale, possession prohibited. The sale, offering for sale, and having
possession for purposes of sale, of any guns, rifles or pistols which
are designed to or can expel, project or fire any BB shot or pellet
of any type by means of spring or air compression, is prohibited.
(b) Use prohibited. The discharging, use or firing of any gun, rifle
or pistol, which are designed to or can expel, project or fire any
BB shot or pellet of any type by means of spring or air compression,
anywhere within the Township, is hereby prohibited.
[Ord. No. 1419, § 1, 3-8-2004]
It shall be unlawful to use cameras, camera cell phones, video
recording devices, and/or any type of equipment with standard, digital
or any other image- or picture-recording capabilities in the locker
rooms and restrooms of any Township building or facility within the
Township.