Abington, PA

Abington Township bars sounding a vehicle horn except as a danger warning, and requires every motor vehicle and motorcycle operated in the township to run with a working muffling…

Abington Township bars erecting, excavating, demolishing, altering, constructing or repairing any building outside 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., with an exception only for emergency work…

Abington Township prohibits playing a radio, musical instrument, television, phonograph or public-address system so it disturbs neighbors, and sets a bright-line test: sound audible 50…

Abington Township bars operating a leaf blower, lawn mower, chain saw, snowblower or similar mechanical equipment in a manner or volume that disturbs residents of any dwelling, any day…

Abington Township caps air-conditioning and mechanical equipment noise at 55 decibels in residential and recreation-conservation districts, 70 in Planned Industrial districts, and 60…

Abington Township declares any animal a nuisance if habitual barking, howling, yelping or biting endangers health or safety or disturbs the peace, under § 58-18. It is unlawful for an…

Montgomery County, PA sets no general quiet-hours ordinance. Under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, each of the county's 62 boroughs and townships adopts its own noise rules…

Abington Township requires owners and occupants of abutting property to trim trees, hedges and other vegetation along the street or sidewalk so there is a clear passage of 8 feet above…

Abington Township amended the International Property Maintenance Code to cap grass and weed height at 10 inches on improved property, enforced by the Code Enforcement Division under…

Abington Township's recycling article treats leaf waste as a recyclable material that residents must store on their property until Township collection, but § 92-41(F) expressly carves…

Montgomery County has no countywide private-tree-removal ordinance. Removing a tree on your own land is generally allowed without a county permit. Trees in the public right-of-way…

Montgomery County does not set a watering schedule. Pennsylvania is not under permanent western-style outdoor-watering rules. During dry spells, the PA Department of Environmental…

Abington Township requires a new single-station smoke detector on every level and in every bedroom of any single-family, two-family or multifamily dwelling sold in the township…

Abington Township's Fire Prevention Code caps bulk liquefied petroleum gas storage: any installation over 125 gallons needs a Fire Official permit, distribution plants are banned in…

Abington Township bans open burning of refuse and salvage-operation fires townshipwide under Section 65-3 of its Code, with narrow exceptions for supervised fire training, fixed…

Recreational fires are legal in Abington Township only inside a fire pit meeting Section 65-3B(5)'s limits: three feet or less in diameter, two feet or less in height, at least 20 feet…

Abington Township bans the manufacture, storage, sale, use and exploding of fireworks anywhere in the Township under its amended Fire Prevention Code, Section F-2700.1, and deletes the…

Pennsylvania's Forest Fire Protection Law makes it a crime to set fire to any woodlot, forest, or wild land anywhere in the Commonwealth. Accidental ignition is a misdemeanor…

In Abington Township, killing, injuring or disturbing birds, their nests or eggs inside any township park or playground is banned outright under Code § 115-1A(21)-(22). The rule also…

Abington Township requires every dog off its owner's property to be leashed at all times when on foot, with a leash no longer than eight feet, under § 58-1. Letting a dog run at large…

Abington Township's § 58-10 permits keeping chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and other poultry kept for show or racing, along with goats, cows, sheep, horses and ponies, but every one…

Section 58-11 of Abington Township's Animals chapter bans keeping a long list of wild and dangerous species outright, including apes, bears, lions, tigers, wolves, coyotes, hyenas…

Abington Township does not regulate dogs by breed; instead § 58-28 lets anyone attacked, or whose pet was seriously wounded or killed, file a trespass complaint before a District…

Abington Township only allows a cat to run free outside its owner's residence if the cat has been spayed or neutered, immunized against rabies under Pennsylvania law, and had its left…

Abington Township does not ban feeding stray or feral cats outright. Section 58-34 makes it unlawful only if the feeding causes a nuisance to neighbors or a condition contrary to…

Abington Township bans retail pet stores from selling dogs or cats. Section 58-37, adopted 8-14-2025 by Ordinance No. 2233, lets a pet store host an animal shelter or rescue…

Pennsylvania's Bee Law requires all beekeepers to register their colonies annually with the Department of Agriculture for inspection and disease control.

Pennsylvania sets no statewide cap on how many dogs or cats a household may keep. The line that matters is the Dog Law's kennel definition in § 102: any establishment in or through…

Abington Township requires a building permit before anyone constructs a swimming pool, bathing place, artificial body of water, or any excavation more than two feet deep that could…

Every swimming pool, bathing place, or artificial body of water in Abington Township deeper than two feet, and not enclosed inside a building, must be entirely surrounded by a wire…

Abington Township caps fences at six feet under Building Code Section 3311.4, with open wire fencing and retaining walls exempt from the limit. Anything taller needs a special…

Abington Township requires a retaining wall wherever an excavation leaves the adjoining grade below legal level, built to a height that retains the earth with a guardrail or fence at…

Abington Township requires a building permit before erecting any fence, screening, wall or retaining wall on or within five feet of a property line. Section 3311.2 also requires a…

Under Pennsylvania's 1905 Line Fence Act (29 P.S. § 41), adjoining owners of improved and occupied land must build and maintain equal halves of any boundary or division fence, and…

Abington Township's Police Department marks individual parking spaces in metered zones with lines painted on the curb or pavement under Code § 156-29. Once a space is marked, any…

In Abington Township, a snow and ice emergency exists under Code § 156-39 whenever snowfall exceeds two inches in 24 hours, or whenever the Police Chief declares one. Parking is then…

Abington Township's Board of Commissioners can designate residential parking permit areas under Code § 156-55 to shield residents from nonresident competition for curbside parking…

Abington Township's Code § 157-1 bars stopping, standing or parking on sidewalks, in intersections, on crosswalks, or in front of driveways, and sets fixed buffers such as 15 feet from…

Abington Township's Housing Standards chapter amends the International Property Maintenance Code's § 302.8 to bar parking, keeping or storing any inoperative, unlicensed or uninsured…

Abington Township's amended Property Maintenance Code § 302.8 bars storing, parking, abandoning or keeping any licensed or unlicensed motor vehicle, watercraft, trailer or parts on any…

Abington Township bars residential properties from keeping trucks over 18 feet long, 80 inches wide or 8,200 pounds GVWR, and bars parking commercial vehicles over 80 inches wide or…

There is no countywide overnight parking ban in Montgomery County. Overnight on-street restrictions are set by your borough or township. In county parks, parking after posted closing…

Montgomery County sets no countywide rule on parking RVs, boats, or trailers at a home. Each of the 62 boroughs and townships regulates this through its own zoning ordinance under the…

A Pennsylvania private parking lot cannot tow you unless it is posted. Under 75 Pa.C.S. § 3353(b)(2) the trespass-parking rule does not reach a private parking lot at all unless the…

Montgomery County has no countywide STR parking rule. Off-street parking requirements for short-term rentals are set by each borough or township zoning ordinance, and many Pennsylvania…

Montgomery County does not require short-term-rental insurance. Liability-insurance conditions, where they exist, are set by your borough or township and attached to the local STR…

Montgomery County imposes a 4% hotel room rental tax on stays under 30 days, collected by the County Treasurer for the Convention and Visitors Bureau. On top of that, Pennsylvania's 6%…

Montgomery County sets no countywide occupancy cap for short-term rentals. Maximum guest counts are a municipal zoning matter under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, and many Montco…

Montgomery County sets no cap on how many nights a year a short-term rental may operate. Any limit on length of stay or number of stays per year is a municipal zoning choice made by…

Montgomery County sets no countywide short-term rental permit. Whether you need a permit is decided by your borough or township under Pennsylvania's Municipalities Planning Code. Many…

Montgomery County imposes no primary-residence requirement on short-term rentals. Whether an STR must be the owner's primary residence is decided by each borough or township zoning…

Montgomery County does no land-use zoning. Whether an accessory dwelling unit is allowed, and its size and setbacks, is decided by your borough or township under the PA Municipalities…

Montgomery County sets no shed rule. Whether a shed needs a zoning or building permit, and how far it must sit from lot lines, is decided by your borough or township. Many PA…

Montgomery County has no garage-conversion rule. Whether you can convert a garage to living space is governed by your borough or township zoning ordinance plus the statewide Uniform…

Montgomery County has no tiny-home rule. Whether a tiny house on a foundation is allowed depends on your borough or township zoning and minimum-dwelling standards, plus the statewide…

Pennsylvania has no traditional cottage-food law. Home food producers must register as a Limited Food Establishment with the PA Department of Agriculture and pass an inspection of the…

A home caring for four, five, or six unrelated children must be certified as a Family Child Care Home by the PA Department of Human Services under 55 Pa. Code Chapter 3290. This is a…

Abington Township requires a permit from the Board of Commissioners before anyone opens, excavates or installs a facility in any public place, including the sidewalk area, curb or…

Abington Township bans placing plantings, signs, posts, walls, fences, gasoline pumps, oil tanks or similar obstructions anywhere within a public place, a term that covers every…

Abington Township places the duty to keep curbs and sidewalks in good order and repair on the owner of the abutting property, at that owner's own expense. If the owner does not make…

Abington Township's subdivision code defines flood elevation as the 100-year-flood elevation plus a 1.5-foot freeboard safety factor, and requires new streets in floodplain areas to…

Abington Township's Stormwater Management Ordinance requires an approved erosion and sediment control plan for regulated earth disturbance and a 50-foot riparian buffer around any…

Abington Township requires a written stormwater management (SWM) site plan approval before subdivision, building permits or earth disturbance may proceed on a regulated site, plus an…

Abington Township regulates development within floodplains and flood-prone areas under Zoning Code § 146-42 of the Subdivision and Land Development ordinance. The Board of…

Abington Township bans smoking and e-cigarette or other tobacco use in any township-owned park or playground once a "No smoking" sign is posted, under Code § 115-5. The Township Fire…

Abington Township bans loitering that obstructs streets, sidewalks or businesses, makes loud or abusive noise, or interferes with others in any public place, under Chapter 104, with…

Abington Township bans carrying or drinking alcohol in any public place: streets, sidewalks, parks, parking lots, playgrounds and shopping centers all count under § 57-3. Liquor and…

Abington Township requires every pedestrian crossing a roadway to obey traffic and pedestrian signals under Code § 156-73, bars suddenly stepping off the curb into a close vehicle's…

Abington Township requires landlords to supply heat to rental units from October 15 to May 15 at a minimum 68°F, and to install smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms in every rental…

Under 68 P.S. Section 250.501, a Pennsylvania landlord must serve a written notice to quit before eviction: 10 days for nonpayment of rent, and 15 days (term of one year or less) or 30…

Pennsylvania Landlord-Tenant Act establishes uniform eviction notice and procedure requirements applicable statewide, governing all residential tenancy terminations universally.

Pennsylvania's Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951 caps a residential security deposit at two months' rent during the first year and one month's rent in the second and later years…

Pennsylvania's general adverse possession period is 21 years under 42 Pa.C.S. Section 5530. A shorter 10-year period applies under 42 Pa.C.S. Section 5527.1 to a parcel of one-half…

In Abington Township, buildings with passenger elevators must keep at least half of them, rounded up, running whenever the building is occupied, under the township's amendment to IPMC…

Abington Township adopted the 2006 International Plumbing Code as its own Plumbing Code under Code § 121-15, and § 121-16 amends its permit-fee, refund and violation sections for local…

Abington Township requires a new carbon monoxide detector within 40 feet of every bedroom before any single-family, two-family or multifamily home closes, under Code § 123-1. Section…

Abington Township's Fire Prevention Code requires stair enclosure doors in buildings taller than six stories or 65 feet to stay unlocked on the inside. Section 85-4(K) rewrote…

Abington Township charges a separate electrical permit application fee under Section 112.3(Q), scaled to the price quoted for the electrical work, on top of administering the…

Abington Township regulates construction, alteration, repair, removal, demolition, use, location, occupancy and maintenance of buildings under the BOCA Basic Building Code, 1996…

Abington Township's Code Enforcement Department inspects buildings before issuing a permanent use and occupancy permit, and charges separate special and repeat inspection fees under…

Abington Township requires approved automatic sprinkler systems in commercial, educational, industrial, institutional, office, public assembly, residential, and vehicle service or…

Abington Township owners and occupants must clear sidewalks and footpaths of snow and ice to a width of at least three feet within 24 hours of accumulation. Cleared snow stays on the…

Abington Township's five-member Vacant Property Review Board can certify a vacant property as blighted before the Redevelopment Authority acts against it under Chapter 49…

Abington Township requires owners to keep property free of weeds, underbrush and debris whether the lot is occupied or vacant, with grass cut on the premises and adjoining sidewalk…

Abington Township closes any park or facility not equipped for evening activities from dusk until 7:00 a.m. under Code § 115-1A(28). "Dusk" is defined as 10 minutes before sunset, and…

Groups, parties or individuals who want to occupy an Abington Township park facility need a permit from the Department of Parks and Recreation under Code § 115-1A(29). At least 25% of…

Anyone who wants to go door-to-door selling goods or taking orders in Abington Township must first get an individual permit from the Abington Township Police Department under Code §…

Abington Township lets residents shut solicitors out two ways under Code §§ 118-10 and 118-11: posting a legible "No Solicitors" or "No Solicitation" sign, or registering their address…

Abington Township requires every massage establishment to register with and be licensed by the Township before opening, on top of the therapist's state license from the Commonwealth of…

Abington Township requires every towing service to hold a Township license before removing a vehicle from public or private property, under Code § 160-1 and § 160-4. The Police…

Pennsylvania regulates electronic cigarettes and vape products under Act 84 of 2016, imposing a 40 percent wholesale tax on e-liquids and devices and requiring tobacco product…

Abington Township bans dumping garbage, rubbish or any liquid or solid vegetable or animal matter on public highways, public places, vacant lots or private ground. Section 92-15 makes…

Abington Township tells residents exactly how to set out recyclables and refuse: containers go curbside on the Township's designated day, yard waste ties in four-foot bundles under 50…

Abington Township's Department of Public Works collects refuse from every single-family home and from townhouse, condo or apartment buildings of four units or fewer. Larger multifamily…

Abington Township bars putting refuse receptacles at the curb more than 12 hours before collection and requires removing them within 12 hours after they are emptied, under the…

A property owner in Abington Township needs a free permit from the Code Enforcement Department before placing a dumpster or portable storage unit, which is capped at 30 days and…

Abington Township requires yard waste, tree clippings, bush clippings, grass clippings, flowers, plants and branches, to be bagged in approved biodegradable bags or cans, or bundled at…

Abington Township tells residents exactly how to set out separated recyclables: metal, glass and plastic go in Township-issued containers at curbside, streetside or an authorized…

Abington Township requires every residence to separate aluminum, tin and bimetal cans, clear and colored glass, plastics numbered 1 through 7, and paper or junk mail from municipal…

Abington Township lets residents place leaves curbside for bulk collection during specially designated weeks under § 92-42(C), rather than bagging every leaf for regular pickup, but…

Abington Township bars anyone with an active communicable disease, including tuberculosis, syphilis or typhoid, from working in a food, dairy or produce business. Section 88-2 requires…

Abington Township confines routine food truck and food cart operation to six zoning districts: BC Business Center, MSH and MSL Main Street, MSVC Main Street Village Center, and the…

Abington Township requires every food truck or cart to carry two permits at once: a Location Permit and a Mobile Food Unit Permit. Section 88-33 caps each permit at one year, bars…

Abington's noise ordinance generally caps mechanical-equipment noise, but permanently installed emergency generators serving residential dwellings get a separate exception: up to 75…

Abington Township's noise ordinance makes it unlawful to operate a commercial motor vehicle unit on a truck, or similar machinery and equipment, loud enough to annoy or disturb…

Abington limits air-conditioning and mechanical-equipment noise to 55 decibels in recreation-conservation and residence districts, 70 decibels in Planned Industrial districts, and 60…

Abington Township's 1954 nuisance ordinance makes it unlawful to ride a bicycle or motorcycle, or drive a cart, wagon or other vehicle, upon any sidewalk in the township. Cyclists must…

Pennsylvania draws a hard line between a golf cart and a neighborhood electric vehicle. Chapter 77A of the Vehicle Code makes it unlawful to operate a golf cart on any highway at all…

Abington Township prohibits planting or growing running bamboo townshipwide, requiring existing bamboo be trimmed back 20 feet and rooted no closer than 10 feet to any pavement…

Abington Township taxes businesses under a Mercantile License Tax that splits vendors into three rate classes. Section 152-3 of the Township Code taxes wholesale dealers at 1 mill per…

Abington Township treats smoking devices as a form of barbeque under Chapter 65 of the Township Code, so outdoor smokers are legal without a permit. The Township Police or Fire Marshal…

Propane and gas grills count as a 'barbeque' under Abington Township's Chapter 65 and may be used without a burning permit. Section 65-3B(4) allows grilling and barbecuing fires as…

Montgomery County has no dark-sky ordinance. Outdoor-lighting and full-cutoff fixture requirements, where they exist, are adopted by individual boroughs and townships under their…

Montgomery County has no light-trespass rule. Whether stray light spilling onto a neighbor's property is limited depends on your borough or township lighting ordinance. Persistent…

Montgomery County has no sign ordinance. Political yard signs are regulated by your borough or township, but under the First Amendment municipalities cannot restrict them by content…

Montgomery County has no sign ordinance. Temporary garage-sale signs are regulated by your borough or township: typical local rules limit sign size, allow posting only a few days…

Montgomery County sets no lot-coverage limit. Maximum building and impervious-surface coverage are set by each borough and township zoning code under the PA Municipalities Planning…

Montgomery County sets no building-height limit. Maximum heights for houses and accessory structures are set by each borough and township under the PA Municipalities Planning Code, and…

Montgomery County establishes no setback rules. Minimum front, side, and rear yard distances are set by each of the county's 62 boroughs and townships under the PA Municipalities…

The Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act establishes statewide siting rules for dispensaries, including a 1,000-foot setback from schools and daycares, while allowing reasonable local…

Pennsylvania prohibits home cultivation of cannabis by patients, caregivers, and recreational users. The Medical Marijuana Act limits production to state-permitted growers, and…

Commercial drone operators in Pennsylvania must hold an FAA Part 107 certificate and comply with state crimes under Act 78 of 2018 (18 Pa.C.S. Section 3505). That law preempts local…

Pennsylvania Act 78 of 2018 (18 Pa.C.S. Section 3505) criminalizes drone surveillance of a private place, menacing operation, and contraband delivery, and preempts most local drone…

Pennsylvania is a shall-issue state requiring a License to Carry Firearms (LTCF) issued by the county sheriff for concealed carry or carry in a vehicle, with statewide rules under 18…

Pennsylvania law comprehensively preempts local regulation of firearms under 18 Pa.C.S. §6120. Cities and counties cannot regulate lawful ownership, possession, transfer, or…

Open carry of firearms is generally legal in Pennsylvania for adults 18 or older without a permit outside Philadelphia, but a License to Carry Firearms is required statewide for…

Under 18 Pa.C.S. Section 6106, carrying a firearm in a vehicle anywhere in Pennsylvania generally requires a valid License to Carry Firearms, with limited exceptions for unloaded…

Pennsylvania caps mini-casinos at ten Category 4 slot machine licenses statewide under 4 Pa.C.S. § 1305.1, each barred from sitting within 25 linear miles of an existing Category 1, 2…

Pennsylvania nonprofits can't run raffles, punchboards, or 50/50 drawings for charity until their own municipality's voters approve it in a referendum. Once approved, the county…

Pennsylvania's gambling code has no social-game or private-residence exception. 18 Pa.C.S. § 5513 makes it a first-degree misdemeanor to let people 'collect and assemble for the…

Pennsylvania channels all sports wagering through Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board certificates, and only an existing slot machine licensee can hold one under 4 Pa.C.S. § 13C11…

Under Pennsylvania's Uniform Planned Community Act, 68 Pa.C.S. § 5315, an association has an automatic lien on a unit for unpaid assessments and fines from the time they become due…

A Pennsylvania association's bylaws must call at least one owners' meeting a year, and notice has to go out not less than ten and not more than 60 days before it, stating the time, the…

Pennsylvania's American, Commonwealth and Military Flag Act overrides any HOA covenant that bans flags. Whatever the declaration says, an association may not stop a unit owner from…

Pennsylvania sets no dollar ceiling on a homeowners association fine. Under the Uniform Planned Community Act, 68 Pa.C.S. § 5302(a)(11), an association may levy "reasonable fines" for…

A Pennsylvania planned community association gets a lien on a lot the moment an assessment or fine falls due, and 68 Pa.C.S. § 5315(a) lets it foreclose that lien in a like manner as a…

Sobriety checkpoints are lawful in Pennsylvania, and the authority is a single clause in 75 Pa.C.S. § 6308(b) permitting an officer to stop a vehicle whenever he is engaged in a…

Pennsylvania is an all-party consent state, and 18 Pa.C.S. § 5703 grades an intentional interception of an oral communication as a felony of the third degree, one of the harshest…

Pennsylvania has never enacted a general stop-and-identify statute, so a person stopped on the street in this Commonwealth has no statutory duty to state a name or produce…

Pennsylvania does not require an officer to obtain written consent before searching a car, and it does not require a warning that you may refuse. Since 5 December 2025 it does require…

Pennsylvania protects agricultural land through Agricultural Security Areas under Act 43 of 1981 and the Agricultural Area Security Law, working alongside municipal zoning to limit…

Pennsylvania's Right to Farm Act (Act 133 of 1982, 3 P.S. §951 et seq.) protects established agricultural operations from local nuisance lawsuits and overly restrictive municipal…

Pennsylvania Act 112 of 2019 raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco and e-cigarettes to 21, aligning with the federal Tobacco 21 law (Dec 2019). The state law covers all tobacco…

Pennsylvania does not currently impose a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or menthol cigarettes, though federal FDA marketing rules restrict which flavored vape products and…

Pennsylvania allows a passenger vehicle or light truck exactly one pair of approved auxiliary driving lamps and fog lamps, mounted at least 20 inches apart from center to center and no…

Pennsylvania has never written a dash cam allowance into the Vehicle Code. 75 Pa.C.S. § 4524(a) bars nontransparent material on the front windshield that materially obstructs the…

Lane splitting is expressly illegal in Pennsylvania. Section 3523(c) of the Vehicle Code says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or…

Pennsylvania flatly prohibits a tinted registration plate cover. Section 1332(b)(5) of the Vehicle Code makes it unlawful to display a plate that "has a tinted plate cover," with no…

A radar detector is legal in a private passenger vehicle in Pennsylvania. The full text of Title 75, the Vehicle Code, contains no occurrence of the word "detector" at all, and the…

Studded snow tires are legal in Pennsylvania only between November 1 and April 15 of the following year, and the studs may project no more than two thirty-seconds of an inch beyond the…

Pennsylvania sets no separate front-and-rear tint percentages the way most states do. 75 Pa.C.S. § 4524(e)(1) simply bars driving with any sun screening device that does not permit a…