[Adopted 3-8-1993 by Ord. No. 1513 (Ch. 2, Part 4, of the 1995 Code)]
The Council of the City of DuBois, 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 City of DuBois.
It shall be illegal within the City of DuBois 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.
This article shall not be deemed to prohibit or otherwise declare unlawful any agricultural operations protected from nuisance suits by Act No. 1982-133.[1]
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Editor's Note: See the Right to Farm Law, 3 P.S. § 951 et seq.
[Amended 7-24-1995 by Ord. No. 1544; at time of adoption of Code revisions (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days.