[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Eddystone 12-9-1991 by Ord. No. 553, approved 12-9-1991. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Noise Ordinance of the Borough
of Eddystone, Delaware County, Pennsylvania."
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health, safety
and welfare of the citizens of the Borough of Eddystone and to further
protect said citizens from excessive noise that would disturb the
peace and tranquillity of the otherwise serene and tranquil environment
of the Borough of Eddystone.
It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue to cause
to be made or allow to be made or continued any loud, unnecessary
or unusual noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers
the comfort, repose, health, peace and safety of others within the
Borough of Eddystone.
No person shall sound any horn or signaling device on any automobile,
motorcycle or motor bicycle or other vehicle on any street or public
place within the Borough of Eddystone, except as a danger warning
signal; nor shall any person activate any such signal device that
is unreasonably loud or harsh; nor shall any person sound any such
device for an unnecessary and unreasonable period of time; nor shall
any air horn be used.
No person shall operate any motor vehicle or motorcycle in the
Borough of Eddystone without an appropriate muffling device on the
exhaust system of said vehicle in order to prevent any unnecessary
loud or harsh sound.
No person shall use, operate or permit to be played any radio,
receiving set, musical instrument, television, phonograph, sound amplifier
or other machine or device for producing or reproducing sound in such
a manner as to disturb the peace, quiet and comfort of neighboring
inhabitants or at any time with louder volume than is necessary for
convenient hearing for the person or persons who are in the room,
vehicle, chamber or building in which such machine or device is operated
and who are voluntary listeners thereto. The operation of any such
instrument between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in such a
manner as to plainly be audible at a distance of 50 feet from the
building, structure or vehicle in which it is located is prohibited.
No person shall use, operate or permit to be played, used or
operated any sound-amplifying machine for the producing or reproducing
of sound which is cast upon the public streets for the purpose of
advertising.
No person shall yell, shout, hoot, whistle or sing on the public
streets between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. nor at any time
or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of
persons in any building or of any person in the vicinity.
The construction, including excavation, demolition, alteration
or repair, of any building other than between the hours of 7:00 a.m.
and 9:00 p.m., except in the case of urgent necessity in the interest
of public health and safety, is prohibited.
No person shall create any excessive noise on any street adjacent
to any school, institution of learning, church or other public building
while the same are in use, which unreasonably interferes with the
workings of such institutions or which disturbs or unduly annoys the
pupils, churchgoers or others inside such building.
No peddler, hawker or vendor shall shout or otherwise cry his
wares which disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood.
The operations between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
of any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer, steam or electric
hoist or other appliance, the use of which is attended by loud or
unusual noise, is prohibited.
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any of the
provisions of this chapter before any District Justice shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution and,
in default thereof, to imprisonment in the county jail for a term
not to exceed 30 days.
