[Adopted 9-13-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-4]
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.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon
conviction thereof, pay a fine as follows:
C. Third offense: $300 or a term of imprisonment not to
exceed 90 days, or both.