[Adopted 10-3-51 as Ord. No. C-447]
For the purpose of this Article, the terms used herein are defined
as follows:
Includes the singular and the plural, and also means and
includes any person, firm, corporation, association, club, partnership,
society or any other form of association or organization.
Any machine or device for the amplification of the human
voice, music or any other sound. "Sound amplifying equipment" shall
not be construed as including standard automobile radios when used
and heard only by occupants of the vehicle in which installed, nor
warning devices on authorized emergency vehicles nor horns or other
warning devices on other vehicles used only for traffic safety purposes.
Any motor vehicle or horse-drawn vehicle having mounted thereon
or attached thereto any sound-amplifying equipment.
A.
Registration required. No person shall use or cause to be used a
sound truck with its sound-amplifying equipment in operation for noncommercial
purposes in the City of Perth Amboy before filing a registration statement
with the City Clerk in writing. This registration statement shall
be filed in duplicate and shall state the following:
(1)
Name and home address of the applicant.
(2)
Address of place of business of applicant.
(3)
License number and motor number of the sound truck to be used by
applicant.
(4)
Name and address of person who owns the sound truck.
(5)
Name and address of person having direct charge of sound truck.
(6)
Names and addresses of all persons who will use or operate the sound
truck.
(7)
The purpose for which the sound truck will be used.
(8)
A general statement as to the section or sections of the city in
which the sound truck will be used.
(9)
The proposed hours of operation of the sound truck.
(10)
The number of days of proposed operation of the sound truck.
(11)
A general description of the sound-amplifying equipment which
is to be used.
(12)
The maximum sound-producing power of the sound-amplifying equipment
to be used in or on the sound truck. State the following:
B.
Registration statement amendment. All persons using or causing to be used sound trucks for noncommercial purposes shall amend any registration statement filed pursuant to Subsection A within forty-eight (48) hours after any change in the information therein furnished.
C.
Registration and identification. The City Clerk shall return to each applicant under Subsection A one (1) copy of said registration statement duly certified by the City Clerk as a correct copy of said application. Said certified copy of the application shall be in the possession of any person operating the sound truck at all times while the sound truck's sound-amplifying equipment is in operation, and said copy shall be promptly displayed and shown to any policeman of the City of Perth Amboy upon request.
D.
Regulation for use. Noncommercial use of sound trucks in the City
of Perth Amboy with sound-amplifying equipment in operation shall
be subject to the following regulations:
(1)
The only sounds permitted are music or human speech.
(2)
Operations are permitted for four (4) hours each day, except on Sundays,
the following legal holidays: New Year's Day, Lincoln's
Birthday; Washington's Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
Day, and national state, county, municipal and special election days,
when no operations shall be authorized. The permitted four (4) hours
of operation shall be between the hours of 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
and between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
(3)
Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless the sound
truck upon which such sound equipment is mounted is operated at a
speed of at least ten (10) miles per hour except when said truck is
stopped or impeded by traffic. Where stopped by traffic, the said
sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one
(1) minute at each such stop.
(4)
Sound shall not be issued within one hundred (100) yards of hospitals,
schools, churches or courthouses.
(5)
No sound truck with its amplifying device in operation shall be operated
on the following streets between the points designated:
Amboy Avenue, from New Brunswick Avenue to its northerly terminus
Boggs Street, from Eagle Avenue to Alpine Street
Brace Avenue, from Hommann Avenue to Raritan Avenue
Brighton Avenue, from Sadowski Parkway to Lewis Street
Broad Street, from Front Street to High Street
Catalpa Avenue, from Sadowski Parkway to Lewis Street
Chester Street, from Myrtle Avenue to Alpine Street
Commerce Street, from Front Street to High Street
Convery Boulevard, from its southerly to its northerly terminus
Dorsey Street, from Smith Street to its northerly terminus
Eagle Avenue, from Amboy Avenue to its easterly terminus
East Avenue, from Broad Street to its northerly terminus
Elm Street, from Market Street to New Brunswick Avenue
Elm Street, from Market Street south to railroad tracks
Fayette Street, from its easterly to its westerly terminus
First Street, from Sadowski Parkway to Patterson Street
Francis Street, from Eagle Avenue to Alpine Street
Grove Street, from its easterly to its westerly terminus
Hall Avenue, from State Street to Johnstone Street
Herbert Street, from Smith Street to its southerly terminus
High Street, from Market Street to its northerly terminus
Hobart Street, from Market Street to Smith Street
Jacques Street, from Paderewski Avenue to Eagle Avenue
Jefferson Street, from New Brunswick Avenue to its westerly
terminus
Johnstone Street, from Paderewski Avenue to Eagle Avenue
King Street, from Market Street to Smith Street
Lawrence Street, from Amboy Avenue to its easterly terminus
Lee Street, from New Brunswick Avenue to Brace Avenue
Lehigh Avenue, from Prospect Street to its westerly terminus
Linden Avenue, from Sadowski Parkway to Lewis Street
Madison Avenue, from Market Street to its northerly terminus
Madison Avenue, from Sadowski Parkway to Lewis Street
Maple Street, from Market Street to its northerly terminus
Market Street, from Rector Street to First Street
Market Street, from Silzer Street to its westerly terminus
Maurer Lane, from its easterly to its westerly terminus
McClellan Street, from Market Street to its northerly terminus
Mechanic Street, from Washington Street to its northerly terminus
Myrtle Street, from Francis Street to its westerly terminus
New Brunswick Avenue, from Smith Street to its westerly terminus
Patterson Street, from Grant Street to Sheridan Street
Penn Street, from Padereweki Avenue to Eagle Avenue
Pfeiffer Boulevard, from Amboy Avenue to its westerly terminus
Read Street, from its southerly to its northerly terminus
Rector Street, from Fayette Street to its northerly terminus
Sadowski Parkway, from High Street to its westerly terminus
Sayre Avenue, from Convery Boulevard to Rathbun Place
Second Street, from Sadowski Parkway to Patterson Street
Smith Street, from its easterly to its westerly terminus
Spring Street, from Myrtle Avenue to Alpine Street
Stanford Street, from Fayette Street to its northerly terminus
State Street, from Gordon Street to its northerly terminus
Stockton Street, from Fayette Street to its northerly terminus
Washington Street, from its easterly terminus to Division Street
Water Street, from Gordon Street to its northerly terminus
Water Street, from High Street to Lewis Street
Weirupp Street, from Brace Avenue to its southerly terminus
Westside Avenue, from Paderewski Avenue to Eagle Avenue
(6)
The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd,
indecent or slanderous.
(7)
The volume of sound shall be controlled so that it will not be audible
for a distance in excess of one hundred (100) feet from the sound
truck and so that said volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring,
disturbing or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility.
(8)
No sound-amplifying equipment shall be operated with in excess of
fifteen (15) watts of power in the last state of amplification.
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck
for commercial sound-advertising purposes in the City of Perth Amboy
with sound-amplifying equipment in operation.
Any person who violates any provision of this Article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not more than ninety
(90) days, or by both said fine and said imprisonment.
