It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to sell
anything by outcry within any area of the City zoned for residential
uses. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit
the selling by outcry of merchandise, food and beverages at licensed
sporting events, parades, fairs, circuses and other similar licensed
public entertainment events.
It shall be unlawful for any person to use any drum or other
instrument or device of any kind for the purpose of attracting attention
by the creation of noise within the City. This section shall not apply
to any person who is a participant in a school band or duly authorized
parade or who has been otherwise duly authorized to engage in such
conduct.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain or permit
the keeping of, upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by
such person, any animal or fowl otherwise permitted to be kept which,
by any sound, cry or behavior, shall cause annoyance or discomfort
to a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness in any residential
neighborhood.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any machinery,
equipment, pump, fan, air- conditioning apparatus or similar mechanical
device in any manner so as to create any noise which would cause the
noise level at the property line of any property to exceed the ambient
noise level by more than five decibels based on a reference sound
pressure of 0.0002 microbars as measured in any octave band center
frequency, in cycles per second, as follows: 63, 125, 250, 500, 1,000,
2,000, 4,000 and 8,000, and for the combined frequency bands, "A"
band.
It shall be unlawful for any person within a residential zone
or within a radius of 500 feet therefrom to operate equipment or perform
any outside construction or repair work on buildings, structures or
projects or to operate any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer,
derrick, steam or electric hoist or other construction type device
except to perform emergency work between the hours of 10:00 p.m. of
one day and 7:00 a.m. of the next day in such a manner that a reasonable
person of normal sensitiveness residing in the area is caused discomfort
or annoyance.
It shall be unlawful for any person within any residential area
of the City to repair, rebuild or test any motor vehicle (between
the hours of 10:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00 a.m. of the next day)
in such a manner that a reasonable person of normal sensitiveness
residing in that area is caused discomfort or annoyance.
[Amended 6-25-2007 by Ord. No. 4-2007]
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle
in such a manner as to cause the tires thereon to emit a squealing
noise which is so loud that it annoys, injures, or endangers the composure,
repose, health, peace or safety of others within the corporate limits
of the City or recklessly creates the risk thereof. The squealing
noise shall be presumed to annoy, disturb, injure or endanger the
comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others if the noise is
audible at a distance of 150 feet from the place or position from
which the noise emanates.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or sound or cause
to be operated or sounded (between the hours of 10:00 p.m. of one
day and 7:00 a.m. of the next day) a train horn or train whistle which
creates a noise in excess of 89 dbA at any place or point 300 feet
or more distant from the source of such sound.
It shall be unlawful for any person to create any noise on any
street, sidewalk or public place adjacent to any school, institution
of learning or church while the same is in use or adjacent to any
hospital, which noise unreasonably interferes with the workings of
such institution or which disturbs or unduly annoys patients in the
hospital, provided that conspicuous signs are displayed in such street,
sidewalk or public place indicating the presence of a school, church
or hospital.