[Adopted 10-10-1972 by Ord. No. 86; amended 6-11-1974 by Ord. No. 108; 12-19-1988 by Ord. No. 274; 6-26-1989 by Ord. No. 277]
A. 
Any animal or fowl, domestic or otherwise, is hereby declared to be committing a nuisance if such animal or fowl:
(1) 
Repeatedly barks, howls, crows, cockles, yelps or makes other similar or offensive sounds for a continuous, unabated period of one hour between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. or for a continuous, unabated period of two hours during all other hours.
(2) 
Bites without provocation or molests any person without provocation.
(3) 
Runs unrestrained, or trespasses upon, or scratches, digs or defecates upon, or otherwise causes damage to any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or any other public or private property, other than the property of the owner or person in charge or control of such animal or fowl.
(4) 
Creates any condition emitting foul, offensive or noxious odors or which may allow vectors (insects and rodents capable of carrying disease) to have access to excrementitious matter, whether upon the property of the owner or other private or public property, any of which may be deleterious or detrimental to the public health.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any owner or person having custody, control or charge of such animal or fowl to permit it to commit or fail to prevent it from committing any nuisance described in Subsection A above. It shall be unlawful for any owner or person having control, custody or charge of any such animal or fowl to permit the excrement of such animal or fowl to flow upon, seep, leak or otherwise travel to and upon any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or any other public or private property, other than the property of the owner or person in charge or control of such animal or fowl [except as limited by Subsection A(4)]. The nuisance shall be considered abated, if applicable, when the owner or person in charge or control of such animal or fowl immediately removes all excrement deposited by such animal and disposes of the same in a sanitary manner or completely repairs the damage done by such animal or fowl.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any owner or custodian, or person having control of any dog, to fail to restrain it by means of a leash while it is on any public or private property, other than the private property of the owner, custodian or person in charge or having control of the dog.
[Amended 11-18-2014 by Ord. No. 558]
In all cases where a police officer, the Code Enforcement Officer or Animal Control Officer of East Norriton Township shall first give notice of the offense to the owner or person having custody or control of the animal or fowl in question on a form noting the time and place of the offense and the nature of the offense charged, and such notice is the first notice served upon such owner or other person for the offense cited therein, no prosecution shall be instituted for 72 hours thereafter for the offense set forth in such notice. If, during said seventy-two-hour period, the offender shall abate and correct the offense for which notice was issued and shall voluntarily appear at the office of the Township during regular business hours and voluntarily enter a plea of guilty and pay a fine of $15 to the Township, no prosecution for such offense shall thereafter be brought. However, the foregoing shall not preclude the enforcement of these provisions for continuing or future offenses. In the case of offenses continuing or occurring after 72 hours following notice of the first offense, each day and incident of violation of the provisions of this article shall constitute a separate offense subject to a separate fine not to exceed $1,000 for each separate offense.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Board of Supervisors of East Norriton Township that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause or section or part thereof not been included therein.