Commonwealth v. Creighton
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Judge.
Mary Creighton (Creighton) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County which dismissed her appeal from a summary conviction for violating Borough of Carnegie (Borough) Ordinance No. 1089 (ordinance).
On April 13, 1992, the Borough enacted the ordinance, thereby limiting the number of cats and/or dogs which a person could keep within the Borough to a total of five. Violators of the ordinance were subject to fines as well as to forfeiture of any animals over the number of five. 1 On March 18, 1992, the Borough published a notice of the proposed…
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