Wednesday, March 08, 2006

 

Around Pennsylvania ...

Plan to require diapers on horses dropped

EBENSBURG -- The legal battle to keep the borough's streets free of horse manure from Amish buggies and other users would raise a bigger stink than the mess borough council was hoping to prevent.

Borough council scrapped a proposed ordinance that would have required horses downtown to wear "a containment device to the rear."

"You have to pick your fights, and this fight is bigger than the problem," borough Manager Dan Penatzer told council in the rural county seat, population 3,100, about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Officials noted that in one Wisconsin community, some Amish citizens argued that a similar ordinance singled their horses out for the pollution they caused but didn't address automobile pollution.

"Enforcement of the ordinance would be problematic," Penatzer told council Monday night before the measure was killed. "You're not going to win this thing, and you'll end up in court."

From the Centre Daily Times

posted by Anne 3/08/2006 07:21:00 AM