[Adopted 5-27-1986 by Ord. No. 3083]
The City Council of the City of Bradford, finding
that excessive levels of sound are detrimental to the physical, mental
and social wellbeing of the people as well as to their comfort, living
conditions, general welfare and safety and being therefore a public
health and welfare hazard, hereby declares it to be necessary to provide
for the greater control and more effective regulation of excessive
sound and sources of excessive sound within the City of Bradford.
It shall be unlawful within the City of Bradford
for any person or persons to own, possess, harbor or control any animal
or bird which makes any noise continuously and/or incessantly for
a period of 10 minutes or makes such noise intermittently for 1/2
hour or more to the disturbance of any person any time of the day
or night, regardless of whether the animal or bird is physically situated
in or upon private property, said noise being a nuisance, provided
that at the time the animal or bird is making such noise no person
is trespassing or threatening to trespass upon private property in
or upon which the animal or bird is situated nor is there any other
legitimate cause which justifiably provoked the animal or bird.
This article shall not be deemed to prohibit
or otherwise declare unlawful any agricultural operations protected
from the nuisance suits by Act No. 1982-133.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 3 P.S. § 951
et seq.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any
provision of this article commits a summary offense and, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 or to imprisonment
for not more than 90 days, or both.
