[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982]
1.
ANIMAL
DOMESTIC ANIMAL
HOUSEHOLD PET
LARGE ANIMAL
PERSON
SMALL ANIMAL
WILD ANIMAL
The following words and terms, as used in this Part, shall have the
meanings hereby respectively ascribed thereto, except where the context
clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any domestic animal or fowl, any wild animal or any household
pet.
Any animal as hereinafter defined as a household pet, a large
or small animal.
Any dog, cat or other domestic animal normally and ordinarily
kept in or permitted to be at large in the dwelling of its owner.
Any domestic animal of the bovine, equine, sheep or hog family.
Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation.
Any domestic animal such as a rabbit, hare, guinea pig, rat,
mouse, or chinchilla and any domestic fowl such as a chick, turkey,
goose, duck or pigeon (except homing pigeons).
Any animal, bird, fowl or reptile not normally or ordinarily
domesticated, nor normally or ordinarily raised in this area and climate
as livestock or for work or breeding purposes or not normally or ordinarily
kept as a household pet.
2.
In this Part, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall
include the singular and the masculine shall include the feminine.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any wild animal at any place within the Township of Lower Swatara except where the same shall be permitted under Chapter 27, Zoning, in a park, zoological garden or similar establishment for exhibit to the public or to any portion thereof.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any domestic animal,
except household pets, except as provided in this section.
A.
Large animals shall be confined in quarters no part of which shall
be closer than 100 feet from the exterior limits of any dwelling or
of any property line.
B.
Small animals shall be kept confined in quarters, no part of which
shall be closer than 25 feet from the exterior limits of any dwelling
or of any property line.
C.
The keeper of every such domestic animal shall confine the same in
an enclosure sufficient to prevent such animal from running at large,
and such enclosure shall be of a size conducive to good sanitation
practices and adequate and sanitary drainage facilities shall be provided.
D.
Every keeper of a domestic animal shall cause the litter and droppings
therefrom to be collected daily in a container or receptacle of such
type that, when closed, it shall be ratproof and flytight, and after
every such collection shall cause such container or receptacle to
be kept closed. On each scheduled trash pickup, every such keeper
shall cause all litter and droppings so collected to be disposed of.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. AO)]
E.
Every keeper of a domestic animal shall cause all feed provided therefor
to be stored and kept in a ratproof and flytight building, box, container
or receptacle.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any household pet,
except as provided in this section.
A.
If any such pet shall be kept in a dwelling owned or occupied by
its owner, such owner shall be required to follow such procedures
and practices as to the number of such pets to be kept there and as
to sanitation as to insure that no public nuisance shall be created
or maintained and no threat to the health of persons living elsewhere
than in such dwelling shall be created.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982; as amended by Ord. 448, 11/15/2000;
and at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. AO)]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not less than $300 nor more than $1,000 plus costs and, in
default of payment of said fine and costs, to imprisonment for a term
not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982]
Any violation of this Part that would also violate any state
law shall be prosecuted under that state law and not under this Part.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982]
It shall be illegal within the Township of Lower Swatara for
any person or persons to own, possess, harbor or control any animal
or bird which barks, bays, cries, squawks or makes any other 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;
provided, however, 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 or for any
other legitimate cause which teased or provoked the animal or bird.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982; as added by Ord. 448, 11/15/2000]
This Part shall not be deemed to prohibit or otherwise declare unlawful any agricultural operations protected from nuisance suits by the Act of June 10, 1982, P.L. 454, No. 133, § 1 et seq., 3 P.S. § 951 et seq.
[Ord. 1982-3, 2/10/1982; as amended by Ord. 448, 11/15/2000;
and at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. AO)]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not less than $300 nor more than $1,000 plus costs and, in
default of payment of said fine and costs, to imprisonment for a term
not to exceed 30 days.
