Borough of Lehighton, PA
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2021-03-01
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 85 Dogs and Other Animals
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Article I Dogs Prohibited in Parks and Playgrounds
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Capital Reserve Fund
- Ch 7 Drug Task Force Agreement, Municipal
- Ch 8 Emergency Management Plan
- Ch 11 Fire Department
- Ch 13 Joint Board of Appeals
- Ch 15 Local Government Trust Fund
- Ch 19 Officers and Employees
- Ch 21 Parks and Recreation Board
- Ch 23 Pensions and Employee Benefits
- Ch 26 Planning Commission
- Ch 28 Police Department
- Ch 31 Purchasing
- Ch 33 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 35 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 38 Sewerage Authorities
- Ch 40 Standing and Special Committees
- Ch 42 Water Authority
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 47 Alarm Systems
- Ch 49 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Attorney Fees
- Ch 54 Bicycles
- Ch 58 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 61 (Reserved)
- Ch 63 Building Permits and Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 65 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 69 Burning, Outdoor
- Ch 75 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 78 Construction Code, Uniform
- Ch 80 Curfew
- Ch 85 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 85 Art I Dogs Prohibited in Parks and Playgrounds
- § 85-1 Dogs prohibited in public parks and playgrounds.
- § 85-2 Exemption for blind persons.
- § 85-3 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 92 Electrical Service
- Ch 98 Excavations, Grading and Fills
- Ch 101 Fees
- Ch 104 Firearms
- Ch 107 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 109 (Reserved)
- Ch 111 Fireworks
- Ch 113 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 118 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 125 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 127 Hazardous Wastes
- Ch 130 Key Lock Boxes
- Ch 131 Keystone Opportunity Zone
- Ch 134 Lehigh Canal Recreation Commission
- Ch 138 Littering
- Ch 141 (Reserved)
- Ch 143 Moving Permits
- Ch 149 Noise
- Ch 152 Nuisances
- Ch 156 Parades and Processions
- Ch 159 Parks
- Ch 162 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 165 (Reserved)
- Ch 168 Pornography
- Ch 171 Property Maintenance
- Ch 176 Real Estate Registry
- Ch 182 Secondhand Dealers and Transient Merchants
- Ch 185 Sewers
- Ch 186 Sex Offenders
- Ch 187 Signs
- Ch 188 Smoking and Tobacco Use
- Ch 190 Stormwater Management
- Ch 192 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 196 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 198 Tattoo Establishments
- Ch 201 Taxation
- Ch 205 Trees
- Ch 213 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 215 Water Conservation
- Ch 218 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted by Ch. 70 of the 1975 Code]
It shall be unlawful for any person having a
dog in his care, custody or control to take, or permit any dog in
his care, custody or control to enter, into any public park or playground
or upon the walks through such public park or playground or adjacent
thereto.
The provisions of § 85-1 shall not apply to any blind person who has a dog in his care, custody or control.
[Amended 8-26-1991 by Ord. No. 413]
Any person having a dog in his care, custody or control who shall violate any provisions of § 85-1 may, upon conviction thereof before any District Justice be subject to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days.
