[Ord. 108, 7/11/1995, § 1]
The Board of Supervisors of Ralpho Township, 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 Ralpho Township.
[Ord. 108, 7/11/1995, § 2]
It shall be illegal within Ralpho Township 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.
[Ord. 108, 7/11/1995, § 3]
This Part shall not be deemed to prohibit or otherwise declare
unlawful any agricultural operations protected from nuisance suits
by Act No. 1982-133.
[Ord. 108, 7/11/1995, § 4; as amended by Ord. 112,
6/11/1996, §§ 1, 2; and by Ord. 119, 4/14/1998]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and,
in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. 127, 6/8/1999, § 1]
No person owning or having possession, custody or control of
any animal shall knowingly or negligently permit any dog or other
animal to commit any nuisance, i.e. defecation or urination, upon
any gutter, street, driveway, alley, curb or sidewalk in Ralpho Township
or upon the floors or stairways of any building or place frequented
by the public or used in common by the tenants or upon the outside
walls, walkways, driveways, alleys, curbs or stairways of any building
abutting on a public street or park or upon the grounds of any public
park or public area or upon private property other than the property
of the owner of such animal.
[Ord. 127, 6/8/1999, § 2]
Any person owning or having possession, custody or control of
any dog or other animal which commits a nuisance, i.e. defecation
or urination, in any area other than the private property of the owner
of such dog or other animal as prohibited in § 201 shall
be required to immediately remove any feces from such surface and
either:
[Ord. 127, 6/8/1999, § 3]
The provisions of §§ 201 and 202 hereof shall
not apply to a guide dog accompanying any blind person or to a dog
used to assist any other physically handicapped person.
[Ord. 127, 6/8/1999, § 4]
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 more than $600 or to imprisonment for a term not to exceed
30 days.
