Any person operating, driving or parking, or causing to be operated,
driven or parked upon any street, alley, parkway, sidewalk or public
property within the city any advertising vehicle, sound truck or commercial
vehicle with sound-amplifying equipment in operation, or with any
sound or signaling device in operation for the purpose of attracting
or calling the attention to such vehicle, and where the same is not
used for noncommercial purposes, as determined by the director of
finance in his or her discretion, shall be required to obtain a permit
in accordance with the terms and provisions of this title and this
chapter. Such permit shall specify the date, time and places of operation.
(Prior code § 6305(a)(part))
No permit for the operation of a sound truck shall exceed thirty
days, unless a longer time has been specified by the permit hearing
board upon receiving competent evidence justifying the same, or unless
the thirty-day permit has been extended by the permit board upon hearing
competent evidence justifying such extension.
(Prior code § 6415(a)(5))
The use of sound trucks in the city, with sound-amplifying equipment in operation, shall be subject to the regulations set out in Sections 5.68.040 through 5.68.060.
(Prior code § 6415(a)(part))
The sound truck shall be operated only on those streets or boulevards
designated by the director of finance in the permit to operate the
same, and shall be operated for four and one-half hours each day between
the hours of eleven a.m. and one-thirty p.m. and the hours of four-thirty
p.m. and six-thirty p.m.; except, on Sundays and legal holidays no
operation shall be authorized unless the permit hearing board has
determined upon competent evidence that in the individual case different
hours of operation would be justified, then such permit shall set
forth the different hours of operation.
(Prior code § 6415(a)(4))
Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless the
sound truck upon which equipment is mounted is operated at a speed
of at least ten miles per hour, except when the truck is stopped or
impeded by traffic. Where stopped by traffic, the sound-amplifying
equipment shall not be operated for longer than one minute at each
such stop.
(Prior code § 6415(a)(1))
