[Adopted 3-3-1997 by Ord.
No. 1-1997 (Ch. 97 of the 1985 Code)]
It shall be unlawful for the owner of a domestic pet or for
any other person to cause or allow any pet to run at large upon the
public streets or highways or upon public property or upon the private
property of another person or entity unless such pet is leashed and
in the company of such owner or other person, without regard to whether
such pet bears a proper license, when required by law.
If any dog bites any person and it is reported to the Borough,
the Police Department for the Borough and/or the Pennsylvania State
Dog Law Enforcement Officer shall be notified, and the owner of the
dog may be prosecuted under the provisions of the Pennsylvania State
Dog Law.
No person who owns, keeps, harbors or otherwise has custody
or control of any pet shall cause or permit the accumulation of excreta
from such pet in any place upon any property, public or private, inside
or outside, located within the Borough, including the property owned
or occupied by such owner or other person, so that such accumulation
of excreta creates a threat to the health of any person or the odor
therefrom permeates the air inhaled by any neighbor or other person.
Any person having possession, custody or control of a pet or other animal which commits a nuisance shall be required to immediately remove any feces, pursuant to §
168-5, and either:
A. Carry same away for disposal in a toilet; or
B. Place same in a nonleaking container for deposit in a trash or litter
receptacle.
If the owner of a pet in violation of this article does not
comply with a notice to abate the violation which constitutes a nuisance
or health hazard, within the time period described, the Borough shall
have the authority to take measures to correct the conditions and
collect the cost of such correction plus 10% of all costs. The Borough,
in such event and pursuant to its statutory authority or otherwise
authorized police powers, shall have the rights and power to enter
upon the offending premises to accomplish the foregoing. The enforcement
authority of this provision shall contain the right to use all other
enforcement provisions of this article.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent
with this article are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
It is the intention of Borough Council that each section or
portion of any section of this article shall be a separate provision
and all shall be independent of all other provisions herein, and it
is further the intention of the Borough that if any section or portion
of any section shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid,
illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining sections
or parts thereof of this article. It is hereby declared as a legislative
intent that this article would have been enacted had such unconstitutional
invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision not have been included
herein.
This article shall become effective upon its adoption.