[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Adams as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-12-1994 by Ord.
No. 68]
The Board of Supervisors of Adams Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania,
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 therefor 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 Adams.
[Amended 10-10-1994 by Ord.
No. 69[1]]
It shall be illegal within the Township of Adams for any person or persons
to own, possess, harbor or control any dog 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 of reasonable sensibilities
any time of the day or night regardless of whether the dog is physically situated
in or upon private property, said noise being a nuisance; provided that, at
the time the dog is making such noise, no person is trespassing or threatening
to trespass upon private property in or upon which the dog is situated, nor
is there any other legitimate cause which justifiably provoked the dog; and
excluding herefrom existing, properly zoned, licensed kennels.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall,
upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice
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 costs
of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof
that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall
also constitute a separate offense.
