[Adopted 2-9-1988 by Ord. No. 1180]
As used in this ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CAT
A felis libyca domestica, kept as a pet and/or for rodent control.
OWNER
Any person owning, keeping, feeding, harboring or having custody of a cat, or who allows a cat to reside or remain about his premises, shall be considered a "cat owner."
VACCINATION
The practice of inoculations with a vaccine to afford protection from rabies.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any owner to have any cat that becomes a nuisance in the township. Acts of nuisance shall include, but are expressly not restricted to, the following:
(1) 
The frequent raising of any disturbance between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., prevailing time or at extended intervals at any other time of the day, or both.
(2) 
Viciousness.
(3) 
Frequent digging into flower beds, lawns, children's sandboxes, gardens or the depositing of feces or urine, and/or otherwise damaging shrubbery, trees or lawns, on premises, personal property or other property not belonging to the owner of the cat.
B. 
No owner shall permit a cat to enter upon any area designated as a tot lot in any publicly owned park or playground.
C. 
Any owner of a cat shall comply with, and be current with, rabies vaccination requirements of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with regard to cats.
Any owner of a cat which constitutes a nuisance as provided in § 36-22 shall be subject to the penalty provisions of Chapter 1, Article II, 1-10, entitled "Violations and penalties."