A. 
Unnecessary noise prohibited.
(1) 
Unnecessary noise. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in such a manner which shall make or cause to be made any loud, disturbing, or unnecessary sounds or noises such as may tend to annoy or disturb another in or about any public or private area in the City of Amery. The sounding of any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle, except as a danger signal, or the creation by means of any signal device of any unreasonably loud or harsh sound and the sounding of such device for any unnecessary or unreasonable period of time is prohibited under this section.
(2) 
Mufflers. Every motor vehicle operated upon a public way shall be equipped with a muffler in good and proper working order and be in constant operation so as to prevent excessive or unusual noise or annoying exhaust smoke.
(3) 
Use of devices. No person shall use or place upon any motor vehicle to be operated upon a public way any muffler cut-out, bypass or similar device. No device shall be used on any motor vehicle operated upon the public way to create unnecessary noise and disturbance.
B. 
Unnecessary smoke prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in such a manner which shall make or cause to be made any smoke, gases, or odors which are disagreeable, foul, or otherwise offensive which may tend to annoy or disturb another in or about any public or private area in the City.
C. 
Unnecessary acceleration and display of power prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle, including motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and bicycles, in such a manner as to cause, by excessive and unnecessary acceleration, the tires of such vehicle or cycle to spin or emit loud noises or to unnecessarily throw stones or gravel; nor shall such driver cause to be made by excessive and unnecessary acceleration any loud noise as would disturb the peace.
D. 
Disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle.
(1) 
Conduct prohibited. No person shall, within the City of Amery, by or through the use of any motor vehicle, including but not limited to an automobile, truck, motorcycle, minibike or snowmobile, cause or provoke disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle, cause a disturbance or annoy one or more persons, or disturb or endanger the property or the safety of another's person or property.
(2) 
Definition. "Disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle" shall mean the engaging in violent, abusive, unreasonably loud conduct, or disturbing or endangering the property or the safety of another's person or property, or otherwise disorderly conduct, including but not limited to unnecessary, deliberate or intentional spinning of wheels, squealing of tires, revving of engine, blowing the horn, causing the engine to backfire or causing the vehicle, while commencing to move or in motion, to raise one or more wheels off the ground.
(3) 
Avoidance of traffic control device prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in such a manner as to leave the roadway and travel across private property to avoid an official traffic control device, sign, or signal.
E. 
Operation in restricted area prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in such a manner as to leave the roadway and park, stop, or travel upon or across any public or private property, parking lot, driveway, or business service area for any purpose, except the official conduct of business located on said property, without the consent of the owner or lessee of the property. This section shall specifically include, but not be limited to:
(1) 
Public park property;
(2) 
Cemetery properties;
(3) 
School district property;
(4) 
Medical facilities;
(5) 
Funeral homes;
(6) 
Service stations;
(7) 
Grocery stores;
(8) 
Restaurants;
(9) 
Financial institutions; and
(10) 
Other similar-type businesses with service driveways or drive-up or drive-through facilities.
F. 
Stopping and parking prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop or park a motor vehicle in any manner on any public or private property or parking lot contrary to a regulatory sign posted thereon which may permit parking by certain persons and limits, restricts, or prohibits parking as to other persons without the consent of the owner or lessee of the property. Any vehicle parked in violation of this subsection may be cited and/or removed or towed by the property owner at the vehicle owner's expense.
No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle on any sidewalk, pedestrianway or pedestrian overpass within the City of Amery except municipal or county maintenance vehicles.
Pursuant to § 349.215, Wis. Stats., those adult persons hired by the school district or Police Department to act as school crossing guards shall have the authority to stop vehicular traffic and to keep it stopped as long as necessary at their respective school crossings for the purpose of permitting schoolchildren to cross the street.
A. 
Driving over curbing prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be driven or backed over any curbing in the City of Amery.
B. 
Driving over safety zones or islands prohibited. Whenever safety zones or safety islands are marked in accordance with the Wisconsin Uniform Traffic Control Device Manual, no operator of a vehicle shall at any time drive through or over a safety zone or safety island. Persons causing damage to curbing by driving over such curbing shall be responsible for the cost of such repairs.
No person shall use compression brakes or operate a motor vehicle using brakes which are in any way activated or operated by the compression of the engine of any such motor vehicle or any unit or part thereof, unless such brakes are necessarily used in an emergency situation. The prohibition contained in this section shall not apply to fire, police, EMS and/or other emergency vehicles.
A. 
Sound-producing devices; impoundment; seizure and forfeiture.
(1) 
In this Subsection A, "sound-producing device" does not include a piece of equipment or machinery that is designed for agricultural purposes and that is being used in the conduct of agricultural operations.
(2) 
Impoundment.
(a) 
A law enforcement officer, at the time of issuing a citation for a violation of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or a City ordinance in strict conformity with § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or any other City ordinance prohibiting excessive noise, is authorized to impound any radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device used in the commission of the violation if the person charged with such violation is the owner of the radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device and has two or more prior convictions within a three-year period of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or a local ordinance in strict conformity with § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or any other City ordinance prohibiting excessive noise. The City authorizes the impoundment of a vehicle for not more than five working days to permit the City authorities or their authorized agent to remove the radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device if the vehicle is owned by the person charged with the violation and the sound-producing device may not be easily removed from the vehicle. Upon removal of the sound-producing device, an impounded vehicle shall be returned to its rightful owner.
(b) 
The City may recover the cost of impounding the sound-producing device and, if a vehicle is impounded, the cost of impounding the vehicle and removing the sound-producing device. Upon disposition of the forfeiture action for the violation of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or a local ordinance in strict conformity with § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or any other local ordinance prohibiting excessive noise and payment of any forfeiture imposed, the sound-producing device shall be returned to its rightful owner.
(c) 
The City may dispose of any impounded sound-producing device or, following the procedure for an abandoned vehicle under § 342.40, Wis. Stats., any impounded vehicle which has remained unclaimed for a period of 90 days after disposition of the forfeiture action.
(d) 
This subsection does not apply to a radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device on a motorcycle.
(3) 
Seizure.
(a) 
Notwithstanding Subsection A(2) above, the City authorizes a law enforcement officer, at the time of issuing a citation for a violation of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or a local ordinance in strict conformity with § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or any other local ordinance prohibiting excessive noise, to seize any radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device used in the commission of the violation if the person charged with such violation is the owner of the radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device and has three or more prior convictions within a three-year period of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or a local ordinance in strict conformity with § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., or any other local ordinance prohibiting excessive noise.
(b) 
The City may impound a vehicle violating Subsection A(3)(a) for not more than five working days to permit the City or its authorized agent to remove the radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device if the vehicle is owned by the person charged with the violation and the sound-producing device may not be easily removed from the vehicle. Upon removal of the sound-producing device, an impounded vehicle shall be returned to its rightful owner upon payment of the reasonable costs of impounding the vehicle and removing the sound-producing device.
(c) 
Any seized sound-producing device under Subsection A(3)(a) shall be treated in substantially the manner provided in §§ 973.075(3), 973.076 and 973.077, Wis. Stats., for property realized through the commission of any crime, except that the sound-producing device shall remain in the custody of the applicable law enforcement agency; a district attorney or the City Attorney, whichever is applicable, shall institute the forfeiture proceedings; and, if the sound-producing device is sold by the law enforcement agency, all proceeds of the sale shall be retained by the City.
(d) 
The City may, following the procedure for an abandoned vehicle under § 342.40, Wis. Stats., dispose of any impounded vehicle which has remained unclaimed for a period of 90 days after disposition of the forfeiture action.
(e) 
This subsection does not apply to a radio, electric sound-amplification device or other sound-producing device on a motorcycle.
B. 
Vehicle owner's liability for radios or other electric sound-amplification devices.
(1) 
Presumption of liability.
(a) 
The owner of a vehicle involved in a violation of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., shall be presumed liable for the violation as provided in this Subsection B.
(b) 
Notwithstanding Subsection B(1)(a), no owner of a vehicle involved in a violation of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., may be convicted under this Subsection B if the person operating the vehicle or having the vehicle under his or her control at the time of the violation has been convicted for the violation under this Subsection B or under § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats.
(2) 
Any member of the public who observes a violation of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., may prepare a written report indicating that a violation has occurred. If possible, the report shall contain the following information:
(a) 
The time and the approximate location at which the violation occurred.
(b) 
The license number and color of the motor vehicle involved in the violation.
(c) 
Identification of the motor vehicle as an automobile, station wagon, motor truck, motor bus, motorcycle or other type of vehicle.
(3) 
Citation procedure.
(a) 
Report; investigation.
[1] 
Within 24 hours after observing the violation, a member of the public may deliver a report containing all of the information in Subsection B(2) to a traffic officer of the county or municipality in which the violation occurred. A report which does not contain all of the information in Subsection B(2) shall nevertheless be delivered and shall be maintained by the county or municipality for statistical purposes.
[2] 
Within 48 hours after receiving a report containing all of the information in Subsection B(2), the traffic officer shall investigate the violation and may prepare a uniform traffic citation under § 345.11, Wis. Stats., and, within 72 hours after receiving such report, any traffic officer employed by the authority issuing the citation may personally serve it upon the owner of the vehicle.
(b) 
If with reasonable diligence the owner cannot be served under Subsection B(3)(a), service may be made by leaving a copy of the citation at the owner's usual place of abode within this state in the presence of a competent member of the family who is at least 14 years of age and who shall be informed of the contents thereof. Service under this subsection may be made by any traffic officer employed by the authority issuing the citation and shall be performed within 72 hours after a report containing all of the information in Subsection B(2) was delivered to a traffic officer under Subsection B(3)(a)[1].
(c) 
If with reasonable diligence the owner cannot be served under Subsection B(3)(a) or (b) or if the owner lives outside of the jurisdiction of the issuing authority, service may be made by certified mail addressed to the owner's last known address. Service under this subsection shall be performed by posting the certified mail within 72 hours after a report containing all of the information in Subsection B(2) was delivered to a traffic officer under Subsection B(3)(a)[1]. Except for owners who live outside of the jurisdiction of the issuing authority, service under this subsection may not be performed unless service under Subsection B(3)(a) and (b) has been attempted.
(4) 
Defenses to the imposition of liability under this Subsection B include:
(a) 
That a report that the vehicle was stolen was given to a traffic officer before the violation occurred or within a reasonable time after the violation occurred.
(b) 
If the owner of the vehicle provides a traffic officer employed by the authority issuing the citation with the name and address of the person operating the vehicle or having the vehicle under his or her control at the time of the violation and sufficient information for the officer to determine that probable cause does not exist to believe that the owner of the vehicle was operating the vehicle or having the vehicle under his or her control at the time of the violation, then the owner of the vehicle shall not be liable under this Subsection B or under § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats.
(c) 
If the vehicle is owned by a lessor of vehicles and at the time of the violation the vehicle was in the possession of a lessee, and the lessor provides a traffic officer employed by the authority issuing the citation with the information required under § 343.46(3), Wis. Stats., then the lessee and not the lessor shall be liable under this Subsection B or under § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats.
(d) 
If the vehicle is owned by a dealer, as defined in § 340.01(11) (intro.), Wis. Stats., but including the persons specified in § 340.01(11)(a) to (d), Wis. Stats., and at the time of the violation the vehicle was being operated by or was under the control of any person on a trial run, and if the dealer provides a traffic officer employed by the authority issuing the citation with the name, address and operator's license number of the person operating the vehicle or having the vehicle under his or her control on a trial run, then that person, and not the dealer, shall be liable under this Subsection B or under the applicable provision of § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats.
(5) 
Notwithstanding § 346.94(16)(b)6., Wis. Stats., this Subsection B does not apply to the operation of a motorcycle.
C. 
Radios or other electric sound-amplification devices regulated.
(1) 
Notwithstanding § 346.94(16), Wis. Stats., the City provides that, except as provided in § 347.38(1), Wis. Stats., no person may operate or park, stop or leave standing a motor vehicle while using a radio or other electric sound-amplification device emitting sound from the vehicle that is clearly audible under normal conditions from a distance of 50 or more feet, unless the electric sound-amplification device is being used to request assistance or warn against an unsafe condition. Any person violating this subsection may be required to forfeit not less than $40 nor more than $80 for the first violation and not less than $100 nor more than $200 for the second or subsequent violation within a year.
(2) 
Subsection C(1) may not apply to any of the following:
(a) 
The operator of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm.
(b) 
The operator of a vehicle of a public utility. In this subsection, "public utility" means any corporation, company, individual or association which furnishes products or services to the public, and which is regulated under Ch. 195 or 196, Wis. Stats., including railroads, telecommunications, or telegraph companies and any company furnishing or producing heat, light, power, or water.
(c) 
The operator of a vehicle that is being used for advertising purposes.
(d) 
The operator of a vehicle that is being used in a community event or celebration, procession or assemblage.
(e) 
The activation of a theft alarm signal device.
(f) 
The operator of a motorcycle being operated outside of a business or residence district.
A golf cart crossing, 10 feet in width, is established over County Highway F. The easterly boundary line of this crossing is 167 feet westerly of the intersection of the westerly boundary line of a City street known as "West Golf Lane" with Highway F. Before using this crossing, all golf cart operators shall stop and yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on County Highway F. This crossing shall be marked with painted lines on County Highway F and by signs approved by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.