[Ord. 2005-04, 2/10/2005]
It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog or any other person
responsible to said owner, whether the dog bears a proper license
tag or not, to permit such dog to run at large upon the outdoor area
of any public or private property in Allen Township.
[Ord. 2005-04, 2/10/2005]
1. It shall be unlawful for any person to confine a dog in an open air
enclosure, including a fenced yard, where its barking may disturb
the quiet of the neighborhood after 10:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m.,
prevailing time. Said dog shall be confined within a relatively soundproof
building with closed doors and windows during those hours.
2. It shall be unlawful for any owner or persons responsible to said
owner to permit the continual daylight barking of any dog or dogs.
Continued daylight barking shall mean the barking of any dog for a
continuing period of 30 seconds or more on three or more occasions
during any twenty-minute period.
[Ord. 2005-04, 2/10/2005]
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping or walking
any dog to permit his or her dog to discharge such animal's excreta
upon any public or private property within Allen Township, other than
the property of the owner of such dog, if such person does not immediately
thereafter remove and clean up such animal's excreta from the
public or private property.
[Ord. 2005-04, 2/10/2005]
It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog to permit the
accumulation of excreta from such dog in a pen or enclosure, including
a yard or at any place within Allen Township where such accumulation
creates a threat to the health of any person or the odor therefrom
pollutes the air inhaled by any neighbor or other person.
[Ord. 2005-04, 2/10/2005]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge 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.