BRECKSVILLE, Ohio – Residents cannot allow their animals, including roosters, to make noise that disturbs neighbors, under an ordinance City Council has unanimously approved.
The city’s animal control officer or police can, after arriving at the scene of a complaint, cite the animal’s owner if they hear the animal making excessive noise, under the new ordinance.
Also, police can cite the animal’s owner if three neighbors living within 500 feet of the offender sign written noise complaints.
Excessive noise is defined in the ordinance as “any continued, repeated or habitual barking, whining, crying, howling, whimpering, squawking, crowing or loud noise . . . that is louder than average conversational level at a distance of 100 feet or more.”…