1. No person shall make, continue, or cause to be made or continued, or allow any noise disturbance which annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
2. Specific Prohibitions. The following acts and the causing thereof are declared to be a nuisance and in violation of this Part:
A. Operating or permitting the operation of or playing of any radio, television, phonograph, drum, musical instrument, sound amplifier, automobile radio, automobile stereo or high fidelity equipment or similar device which produces, reproduces or amplifies sound which annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
B. Owning, possessing, harboring or controlling any animal which barks, bays, cries, squawks or makes any other noise continuously and/or intermittently for ½ hour or more, which annoys or disturbs a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
C. Operating or permitting the operation of a powered model vehicle, i.e., any self-propelled airborne, waterbornes, or landborne plane, vessel or vehicle not designed to carry persons including, but not limited to, any model airplane, boat, car or rocket, so as to annoy or disturb a reasonable person of normal sensitivities.
D. Operating or permitting the operation of any device that causes vibration thereby causing a reasonable person of normal sensitivities to be aware of the vibration by direct means including, but not limited to, sensation by touch or visual observation of moving objects.
E. Operating or permitting the operation of any mechanically powered saw, drill, sander, grinder, lawn or garden tool, snowblower or similar device in a residential area between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. the following day, which annoys or disturbs a reasonable person or normal sensitivities.
F. Operating or permitting the operation of any public or private motor vehicle or motorcycle or any equipment attached to such a vehicle, on a public right-of-way at any time in such a manner that the sound level emitted by the motor vehicle or motorcycle or any equipment attached to such vehicle exceeds the level set forth in 67 Pa.Code, Chapter 450, of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Regulations (Established Sound Levels), promulgated under § 4523 of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 4523.
G. Operating or permitting the operation of any motor vehicle or motorcycle or any auxiliary equipment attached to such vehicle for a period of longer than 15 minutes in any hour while the vehicle is stationary for reasons other than traffic congestion within 150 feet of a residential area.
H. The sounding of any horn or other warning device of a motor vehicle or motorcycle except when absolutely necessary as a warning while actually driving such vehicle.
(Ord. 91-1, 9/9/1991, § 16.52)