[Added 6-8-1998]
A.
No person while operating any motor vehicle, vehicle or bicycle,
or combination or motor vehicles, vehicles or bicycles, upon or along
the streets, roadways or parking spaces within the City at any time
shall play any radio, stereo system, tape player, compact disc player
or any musical instrument or device for the production of sound, whether
installed by the manufacturer of said vehicle or otherwise, or carried
separately in or upon the vehicle, in such manner or with such volume
as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of a reasonable
person of normal sensitivities or at a louder volume than is necessary
for the convenient hearing of the operator and/or passenger(s) of
said vehicle. This prohibition shall include under any conditions
of acceleration, deceleration or idling of said vehicle, or whether
or not in motion and whether or not the engine of said vehicle is
running.
B.
Any person violating any provisions of this article shall, upon conviction,
pay a fine of not less than $10 for the first offense and shall pay
the costs of prosecution. For each subsequent offense, he shall be
fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 and shall pay the costs
of prosecution. All second offenses before being punishable as such
shall have been committed within 12 months after commission of the
first offense.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Art. XVI, Parking Permit System, added
7-13-1998, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 8-10-1998.
