[Adopted 2-9-1988 by Ord.
No. 1180]
As used in this ordinance, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A felis libyca domestica, kept as a pet and/or for rodent control.
Any person owning, keeping, feeding, harboring or having custody
of a cat, or who allows a cat to reside or remain about his premises, shall
be considered a "cat owner."
The practice of inoculations with a vaccine to afford protection
from rabies.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any owner to have any cat that
becomes a nuisance in the township. Acts of nuisance shall include, but are
expressly not restricted to, the following:
(1)
The frequent raising of any disturbance between the hours
of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., prevailing time or at extended intervals at any
other time of the day, or both.
(2)
Viciousness.
(3)
Frequent digging into flower beds, lawns, children's
sandboxes, gardens or the depositing of feces or urine, and/or otherwise damaging
shrubbery, trees or lawns, on premises, personal property or other property
not belonging to the owner of the cat.
B.
No owner shall permit a cat to enter upon any area designated
as a tot lot in any publicly owned park or playground.
C.
Any owner of a cat shall comply with, and be current
with, rabies vaccination requirements of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
with regard to cats.
