[Adopted 7-9-1973 by Ord. No. 199]
[Amended 10-18-2000 by Ord. No. 512]
A. 
Disorderly practices are hereby prohibited within the Township of Lower Moreland. Any person who shall be guilty of any act, word or practice causing or tending to cause a disturbance of the peace and good order of the Township or causing or tending to cause any danger, discomfort or annoyance to any of the inhabitants of the Township or users of the Township thoroughfares, or who shall willfully make any loud, boisterous or unseemly noise or disturbance, or who shall fight or quarrel or incite others to fight or quarrel, or shall publicly make use of any obscene or indecent language, or who shall congregate upon any of the public streets or alleys or public grounds in the Township, to the annoyance of peaceable residents nearby or of persons traveling upon any street or alley or being lawfully upon any of the public grounds in the Township, whereby the public peace is broken or disturbed or the traveling public is annoyed, shall be found guilty of a disorderly practice.
B. 
Disorderly practices shall include but not be limited to the following:
(1) 
The sounding of any horn or any signaling device on any automobile, motorcycle, motor bicycle or other vehicle in any street or public place of the Township, except as a danger warning signal.
(2) 
The operation of any motor vehicle or motorcycle in the Township, licensed or unlicensed, on public or private premises, whether standing or moving, without an appropriate muffling device on the exhaust system of said vehicle in order to prevent any unnecessary and unreasonably loud or harsh sound.
(3) 
The use, operation or playing of any radio receiving set, musical instrument, television, phonograph, public-address system or other machine or device for producing or reproducing sound in such a manner as to disturb the peace, quiet and comfort of neighboring inhabitations. The operation of any such instrument in such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet from the building, structure or vehicle in which it is located is prohibited. Exceptions will be permitted for special events such as but not limited to a public-address system used for a community event.
(4) 
No person shall yell or shout on the public streets nor at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any building or of any persons in the vicinity.
(5) 
The following activities shall only be permitted between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays:
[Amended 4-13-2021 by Ord. No. 758; 7-21-2022 by Ord. No. 764]
(a) 
Construction work, including excavation, demolition, alteration, erection or repair of any building or structure. The operation of machinery, a commercial motor vehicle unit on a truck, any equipment, pump, lawn mower, leaf blower, chain saw, or similar mechanical device.
(b) 
The prohibition set forth in Subsection B(5)(a) of this section shall not apply to emergency or municipal work necessary to restore property to a safe condition, work required to protect persons or property from imminent danger or snow removal or residential lawn maintenance on Sundays or holidays between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
(c) 
No construction work shall occur on Sundays or on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day.
(d) 
The Township Manager may exempt public construction projects or other projects from the restrictions of this subsection upon a showing of special circumstances.
(6) 
[1]No person shall operate or cause to be operated any recreational motorized vehicle off a public right-of-way in such a manner that the sound of the vehicle crosses the boundary of private property when operated on private property. This subsection shall apply to all recreational motorized vehicles, whether or not duly licensed and registered, including but not limited to commercial and noncommercial racing vehicles, motorcycles, minicycles, go-carts, snowmobiles, campers, dune buggies and all-terrain vehicles.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection B(6), regarding the operation of machinery during certain hours, was repealed 4-13-2021 by Ord. No. 758. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection B(7) as Subsection B(6).
[Amended 3-21-1990 by Ord. No. 392]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $5 or more than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days.