[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Lehigh 2-12-1980 as Art. 711 of the 1980 Code of
Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person shall intentionally cause public inconvenience,
annoyance or alarm, or recklessly create a risk in any place whatsoever
within the Township by engaging in fighting or threatening, or in
violent or tumultuous behavior; making unreasonable noise; using obscene
language, or making an obscene gesture; or creating a hazard or physically
offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose
of the actor.
B.
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 Township of Lehigh, or causing or tending to cause
any danger, discomfort or annoyance to any of the inhabitants of the
Township or users of the Township 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
of public grounds in the Township of Lehigh, to the annoyance of peaceable
residents near by or traveling upon any street or alley or being lawfully
upon any of the public grounds in the Township, whereby the public
peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling public annoyed, shall
be guilty of disorderly conduct.
C.
Such person so acting shall be charged with summary
offense and upon conviction be subject to the penalties hereinafter
provided.
No person shall wrongfully strike another or
be engaged in any fight or affray or be or appear in a drunken or
intoxicated condition in any public street, highway or public place
within the Township.
A.
No person or persons shall unnecessarily and willfully
obstruct or interfere with the travel upon any public right-of-way
or passageways of any church, hall or other public place.
B.
No person or persons shall lounge, loiter or loaf
thereupon or therein, or upon any street corners or public bridges.
No person shall aid, assist, encourage or abet
any other person in the commission of any of the offenses prohibited
by this chapter or shall incite such commission.
[Amended 5-10-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-1[1]]
A.
It is a
public nuisance and considered to be disturbing the peace and injurious
to the public's interest for any person, whether a tenant, owner,
or otherwise, to permit at any time the continued or intermittent
use or operation of devices or making any other loud, unnecessary
noise which creates a physically offensive condition and which serves
no legitimate purpose which annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers
the comfort, health, safety or peace of others and which can be heard
150 feet from the source. This shall include, but is not limited to,
loudspeakers, radios, stereos, sound devices or other apparatus, the
unnecessary blowing of horns or any other noises.
B.
Under no
circumstance, unless permission is granted by the Board of Supervisors,
shall a person permit noise to be able to be heard on any neighboring
property between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
C.
Property
owners shall not permit tenants and/or guest(s) to engage in disruptive
conduct which creates loud, unnecessary noise which creates a physically
offensive condition and which serves no legitimate purpose. Owners
who permit or tolerate any tenant and/or any invited and/or uninvited
guest(s) to engage in disruptive conduct shall be subject to the following
civil enforcement proceedings and civil fines, which proceedings are
intended to promote owner management and control of leased premises
and the elimination of unsafe and/or problematic tenants and visitors.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided the following
penalties:
1. First offense for any person, owner, tenant, rental unit
or rental property. Upon the first offense relating to a particular
owner, occupant, tenant, rental unit, or rental property, the Code
Enforcement Officer or police officer shall issue an oral warning
to any occupant of the premises and written warning to the owner,
along with a copy of the disruptive conduct report, wherein the owner
or manager is believed to have permitted or tolerated any tenant and/or
any invited and/or uninvited guest(s) to engage in disruptive conduct
on, in or adjacent to the rental premises.
2. Second or subsequent offenses relating to a particular owner, occupant, tenant, rental unit or rental property. Upon the second or subsequent offenses relating to a particular owner, occupant, tenant, rental unit, or rental property, the police officers shall promptly serve a copy of the disruptive conduct report upon the owner and thereafter commence with criminal enforcement proceedings to both the occupant and property owner as specified under Article II, § 1-17 of the Lehigh Township Codified Ordinances.
No person shall permit or commit the unnecessary
blowing of horns or the making of unnecessary loud noises in or upon
the streets of the Township except for the proper use of horns or
other devices as reasonable warning in accordance with traffic laws.
