Do I need a permit for a home or business alarm? Yes, any alarm device that will notify Township Police, Fire or EMS Departments either directly or thru an alarm service company requires a permit. The alarm permit fee is $15 per annum, based on the calendar year.  There senior citizen fee is $10.

Who needs a business license? Any person or entity engaged in business and having a Cheltenham Township business address requires a license. The fee is $10 per annum, based on the calendar year.

Do I need a business license for a rental property located in the Cheltenham Township? Yes

Do I need a business license for a business based in my home? Yes

What are the Township's rules governing noise? "Chapter 205, Article III" (205-8 to 205-16) of the Township's Municipal Code features the full regulations. But "Prohibited Acts" (205-11) states the following:

A.  It shall be unlawful for any person to create a noise disturbance or disorderly conduct within the borders of Cheltenham Township.

B.  No person shall sound unnecessarily any horn or any signaling device on any vehicle, automobile, motorcycle, motor bicycle or other vehicle in any street or public place of the Township except as a danger warning signal. Doing so will constitute disorderly conduct.

C.  No person shall operate any vehicle in the Township, licensed or unlicensed, on public or private premises, whether standing or moving, without an appropriate muffler on the exhaust system of said vehicle in order to prevent noise disturbance or disorderly conduct.

D.  No person shall use, operate or permit to be played any radio receiving set, musical instrument, television, phonograph, public address system or other machine or device for producing or reproducing sound in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance or disorderly conduct. The operation of any such instrument in such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of 150 feet from the noise source shall be a noise disturbance or disorderly conduct.

E.  No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck for any commercial purpose in the Township with sound-amplifying equipment in operation.

F.  No person shall yell, shout, hoot, whistle or sing on the public streets nor at any time or place so as to cause a noise disturbance or disorderly conduct.

G.  No person shall keep any animal or bird which causes excessive noise that disturbs the comfort or repose of any person in the vicinity.

H.  The erection, including excavation, demolition, alteration, construction or repair, of any building prior to 7:30 a.m. is prohibited unless it involves emergency work.

I.  No person shall create any noise disturbance or disorderly conduct on any street adjacent to any school, institution of learning, church, hospital or any public building, while the same are in use, which unreasonably interferes with the workings of such institution or which results in excessive noise for pupils, churchgoers, patients or others inside said building.

J.  No peddler, hawker or vendor shall shout or otherwise cry his wares which results in a noise disturbance or a charge of disorderly conduct.

K.   Loafing, loitering, lounging or congregating in such a manner as to interfere with the free passage of the traveling public or annoy the public by means of remarks or conduct of any improper nature will constitute disorderly conduct.

L.   Permitting or giving one's consent to any person to violate the terms of this article as above set forth upon their property or elsewhere will constitute disorderly conduct.