[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Lehigh as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-13-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-4]
A.
ANIMAL
DOMESTIC ANIMAL
HOUSEHOLD PET
PERSON
WILD ANIMAL
As used in this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the
context:
Any domestic animal, wild animal or any household pet.
All animals normally or ordinarily domesticated or raised in this
area and climate as livestock or for work or breeding purposes, or normally
or ordinarily kept as a household pet.
Any dog, cat, bird or other domestic animal normally and ordinarily
kept in or permitted to be at large in the dwelling of its owner.
Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
Any animal, including bird, fowl or reptile, not normally or ordinarily
domesticated; not normally or ordinarily raised in this area and climate as
livestock or for work or breeding purposes; or not capable of being kept as
a household pet.
B.
In this article, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular and the masculine shall include the
feminine.
The Board of Supervisors of Lehigh Township, finding that excessive
levels of sound are detrimental to the physical, mental and social well-being
of the people as well as 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
Township of Lehigh.
It shall be illegal within the Township of Lehigh for any person or
persons to own, possess, harbor, or control any animal which makes any noise
continuously and/or incessantly during the hours of 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
for a period of 20 minutes or makes such noise intermittently for 45 minutes
or more to the disturbance of any person at any time of the day or night regardless
of whether the animal is physically situated in or upon private property,
said noise being a nuisance; provided that at the time the animal is making
such noise, no person is trespassing or threatening to trespass upon private
property in or upon which the animal is situated nor is there any other legitimate
cause which justifiably provoked the animal.
This article shall not be deemed to prohibit or otherwise declare unlawful
any agricultural operations protected from nuisance suits by Act No. 1982-133.
