[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Dormont 5-7-1956 by Ord. No. 935; amended in its entirety 8-1-1994 by Ord. No.
1433. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to be upon any street, lane,
alley, avenue or highway or other public place within the limits of
the Borough to the annoyance of any of the inhabitants thereof or
to annoy any of the residents of the Borough by trespassing on any
private property, to commit any act of open lewdness or public indecency
or to assemble with others on the public streets, lanes, alleys, avenues,
highways, sidewalks, public places or elsewhere within the limits
of the Borough in such manner as to interfere with, impede or annoy
the traveling public.
It shall be unlawful for any person, other than properly constituted
peace officers, to display or make use of any knife, handy-billy,
artificial knuckles, club, gun, revolver or any other similar weapon
or to discharge the same upon any of the streets, alleys, lanes, highways
or elsewhere within the limits of the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or permit to remain
outside of any dwelling, building or other structure or within any
unoccupied or abandoned building, dwelling or other structure under
his or her control, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned,
unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other container which
has an airtight door or lid, snaplock or other locking device which
may not be released from the inside, without first removing such door
or lid, snaplock or other locking device from such icebox, refrigerator
or container.
[Amended 8-7-1995 by Ord. No. 1451]
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or cause to be
operated within the corporate limits of the Borough any machine shop
or repair shop for the general repair of motor vehicles and for general
construction of any kind or any other business in a residential neighborhood
during the hours of rest, beginning at 9:00 p.m. and ending at 7:00
a.m.; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the
furnishing of gasoline, oil and grease or changing of tires, emergency
towing service and like businesses where such work is performed and
services rendered with reasonable precautions for the peace and quietude
of the neighborhood and is unaccompanied by unnecessary noise and
disturbance.
[Amended 8-7-1995 by Ord. No. 1451; 9-5-2017 by Ord. No. 1623]
A.
No operation or activity shall cause or create noise in excess of
the sound levels prescribed below. The noise shall be measured on
an A-weighted scale of a sound-pressure-level meter which conforms
to the standards prescribed by the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI), New York, New York, in Specifications for Sound Level Meters,
S1.4-1971, or latest revised edition. If an A-weighted sound device
is not present, a violation will be deemed to have occurred if the
sound is audible to any degree to a police officer or a Code Enforcement
Officer located a distance of not less than 75 feet from the source
of the sound.
(1)
Residential districts. At no point beyond the boundary of any lot
within these districts shall the exterior noise level resulting from
any use or activity located on such lot exceed a maximum of 68 dBA.
(2)
Commercial districts. At no point on or beyond the boundary of any
lot within these districts shall the exterior noise level resulting
from any use or activity located on such lot exceed a maximum of 65
dBA for more than eight hours during any twenty-four-hour period.
(3)
Where two or more zoning districts in which different noise levels
are prescribed share a common boundary, the most restrictive noise
level standards shall govern.
C.
The following uses or activities shall be exempted from the noise
regulations:
(1)
Noises emanating from construction or maintenance activities between
7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
(2)
Noises caused by safety signals, warning devices and other emergency-related
activities or uses.
(3)
Noises emanating from public recreational uses between 7:00 a.m.
and 11:00 p.m.
(4)
Noises emanating from the delivery of public services such as street
maintenance, snow removal and solid waste and recycling pickup.
D.
In addition to the above regulations, all uses and activities within
the Borough of Dormont shall conform to all applicable county, state
and federal regulations. Whenever the regulations contained herein
are at variance with any other lawfully adopted rules or requirements,
the more restrictive shall govern.
It shall be unlawful for any person to resist an officer in
the performance of his or her duty or to aid, encourage or abet any
other person to resist such officer within the limits of the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, injure, tamper
with or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any police
or fire call boxes within the Borough, and the same is hereby prohibited.
The use for coasting of what is commonly known as "bobsleds,"
any two-track sleds and sleds of a greater length than six feet is
hereby prohibited upon any of the streets, alleys or highways within
the corporate limits of the Borough.
It shall be unlawful for any person who shall have no fixed
place of residence within the Borough to go about from house to house
or from place to place within the limits of the Borough begging or
asking for food, alms or other valuable things as a means of sustenance
or for any person who is without visible means of support or is unable
to account for his or her actions to the satisfaction of the arresting
officer to trespass upon private property or elsewhere within the
limits of the Borough.
Disorderly conduct is hereby prohibited within the Borough of
Dormont. Any person who shall be guilty of any act, word or conduct
causing or tending to cause a disturbance of the peace and good order
of the Borough or causing or tending to cause any danger, discomfort
or annoyance to any of the inhabitants of the Borough or users of
the Borough thoroughfares or who shall willfully make any loud, boisterous
or unseemly noise or disturbance or who shall fight or quarrel or
incite others to fight or quarrel or who shall publicly make use of
obscene or indecent language or who shall loaf or loiter or congregate
upon any of the public streets or alleys or public grounds in the
Borough of Dormont, to the annoyance of peaceable residents nearby
or traveling upon any street or alley or being lawfully upon any of
the public grounds in the Borough, whereby the public peace is broken
or disturbed or the traveling public annoyed, shall be guilty of disorderly
conduct.
A.
No person or persons shall destroy or injure in any way whatsoever
or tamper with or deface public property of the Borough of Dormont
or any grass, walk, fire hydrant, ornamental work or building on any
of the streets, alleys, parks or other public grounds of the Borough.
B.
No person shall willfully or maliciously destroy or remove or deface
or obliterate or cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade erected
by the authorities of the Borough of Dormont or by any person, firm
or corporation doing work by permission of the authorities of the
Borough on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks, parking lots, public
buildings and parks of the Borough as a warning of danger.
C.
No person or persons shall take any earth, stone or other material
from any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public grounds of
the Borough. This shall not apply to normal activities in connection
with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys,
sidewalks, public parks, parking lots and other public grounds and
the structures and fixtures located thereon.
[Added 11-6-2000 by Ord. No. 1493]
A.
This section applies only to any motor vehicle which is parked, stored
or otherwise present outside on private property within the Borough
and does not apply to any motor vehicle on public property, streets
or highways or parked in a garage.
B.
Criteria.
(1)
A motor vehicle shall only be determined to be a public nuisance
in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The
following criteria shall be considered evidence of a motor vehicle
constituting a nuisance:
(a)
The motor vehicle is unregistered;
(b)
The motor vehicle does not bear a current and valid inspection
sticker;
(c)
The motor vehicle is in a state of major disassembly, disrepair
or in the process of being stripped or dismantled;
(d)
The motor vehicle is inoperable; or
(e)
The motor vehicle constitutes a public hazard.
(2)
The criteria as stated herein are not exhaustive, and the presence
of other conditions may justify a finding that a motor vehicle is
a nuisance.
C.
It is declared unlawful for any person to deposit, leave, cause to
be left, fail to remove or permit the presence of a nuisance motor
vehicle on any private property within the Borough.
[Amended 6-6-2005 by Ord. No. 1533]
D.
Upon a finding by a code enforcement or building inspection officer
of the Borough that any person has deposited, left, caused to be left,
failed to remove or is permitting the presence of a nuisance motor
vehicle on private property within the Borough, the officer shall
forward a notice to the property owner, and/or the owner of the nuisance
motor vehicle, and/or the person depositing, leaving, causing to be
left or failing to remove from the private property the nuisance motor
vehicle, that the motor vehicle is a nuisance and must be removed
within five days of the notice.
[Amended 6-6-2005 by Ord. No. 1533]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding under the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus court costs
and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement
proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction,
or by proceedings by summons on default of the payment of the fine
or penalty imposed and the costs, the defendant may be sentenced and
committed to the Borough correctional facility for a period not exceeding
10 days or to the county correctional facility for a period not exceeding
30 days. Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement
under this section, the Borough may enforce this chapter in equity
in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County.
