Excessive noise, and particularly amplified noise coming from
motor vehicles, is a serious threat to the welfare, contentment, health,
safety and peace of the residents of the Borough of Lewistown. It
is the intent of this article to establish requirements to prevent
excessive noise that might jeopardize the health and welfare of residents
of the Borough of Lewistown or downgrade their quality of life. This
article is not intended and shall not be interpreted to be a regulation
of the content of speech or communication; this article is intended
to be entirely content-neutral.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate this article
shall, upon conviction thereof before a Magisterial District Judge,
be sentenced to pay a civil penalty of $50 plus costs of proceedings.
An action or proceeding commenced under the authority of this
article shall be an action or proceeding within the meaning of 42
Pa.C.S.A. § 6143, whereby the registration number of the
motor vehicle shall give rise to an inference that the person to whom
the registration number is officially assigned is the owner of the
motor vehicle and was then operating the motor vehicle.