§ 3-134. Excessive noise by an animal prohibited.  


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  • (a)

    No person who owns, keeps, or has in his possession any animal of any kind whatsoever shall permit such animal to disturb the quiet of any person or neighborhood. Permitting an animal to disturb the quiet of any person or neighborhood, or failure to keep any animal from causing frequent or long continued noise, to the disturbance of the comfort or repose of any person or neighborhood, is declared to be a public nuisance and detrimental to the public health and welfare.

    (b)

    Any person disturbed by a noisy animal shall first advise the owner or custodian who keeps such animal of the fact that the animal, by causing frequent or long continued noise, is disturbing the complainant and the neighborhood.

    (c)

    No owner or custodian shall fail to abate a nuisance caused by the frequent, habitual or long continuing noise of his animal after having been notified in accordance with this Section.

(CB-36-1985)