[Adopted 6-16-1986 by Ord. No. 269-86]
The Borough Council of the Borough of Lake City,
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 Lake City.
It shall be illegal within the Borough of Lake
City 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
20 minutes or more to the disturbance of any person 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 the nuisance suits by Act No. 133 of 1982.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 3 P.S. § 951
et seq.
[Amended 6-22-2009 by Ord. No. 387-09]
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 $500, and/or to imprisonment for a
term not to exceed 90 days.
