[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 7:310; as amended by Ord.
578, 6/13/2002, § 1]
The Board of Supervisors of the Township, 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 Township.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 7:310; as amended by Ord.
578, 6/13/2002, § 1]
It shall be illegal within the Township 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 1/2 hour 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.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 7:310; as amended by Ord.
578, 6/13/2002, § 1]
This part shall not be deemed to prohibit or otherwise declare
unlawful any agricultural operations protected from nuisance suits
by Act No. 1982-133.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 3 P.S. § 951 et seq.
[Ord. 279, 2/3/1975, § 7:310; as amended by Ord.
578, 6/13/2002, § 1]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs,
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this part continues
or each section of this part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
