(A) Excessive noise endangers physical and emotional health and well-being, interferes with legitimate business and recreational activities, depresses property values, offends the senses and in other respects reduces the quality of the community and environment; as such the following noise nuisances are declared and prohibited.
(1) No person shall sound any horn or audible signal device of any motor vehicle of any kind while not in motion, nor shall such horn or signal be sounded under any circumstances except as required by law, nor shall it be sounded for any unnecessary or unreasonable period of time.
(2) No person shall operate any motor vehicle subject to registration that will, at any time or under any condition of grade, load, acceleration or deceleration, operate in such a manner as to offend senses of those in the immediate area of such operation.
(3) No person shall operate or permit to be operated any device used to receive broadcast sound, or reproduce any recorded sound if the device is located:
(a) On the public way; or
(b) In any motor vehicle on the public way; and the sound can be heard from 75 feet or more from the device. This section does not apply to authorized emergency vehicles. This section does not apply when the device is being operated solely to request assistance or warn of a hazardous condition.
(4) No person shall use any hammer or power-operated tool for repair or construction purposes between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 600 feet of any building used for residential or hospital purposes if such noise is audible from any adjacent property used for residential or hospital purposes. Repairs to public service utilities shall be exempted from this section.
(5) No person shall operate any power-driven lawn or garden maintenance equipment between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 600 feet of any building used for residential or hospital purposes if such noise is audible from any adjacent property used for residential or hospital purposes.
(6) No person shall operate the following equipment between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. outdoors within 600 feet of any building used for residential or hospital purposes or indoors if such equipment is audible from any adjacent property used for residential or hospital purposes:
(a) Power-operated models including automobiles, boats and aircraft;
(b) Sound trucks and public address systems;
(c) Factory time whistles; and
(d) Church bells and carillons.
(7) No person shall conduct garbage, yard waste or recycling collection between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. anywhere within the limits of the city.
(8) No person within a residential property, or building used for such purposes, shall play music, musical instruments, radios, television sets or phonographs outside at any time using an intercom system between the hours of 9:00 p.m. on weekdays (11:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights) and 7:00 a.m. on any given day, on any property abutting or across the street from property zoned and used for residential purposes, if such music is audible more than ten feet from the property from which the noise is emitting.
(9) It shall be unlawful to engage in yelling, shouting or hooting between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 600 feet of any building used for residential or hospital purposes or indoors if such noise is audible from any adjacent property used for residential or hospital purposes.
(B) It shall be unlawful to cause or create any unnecessary or unusual noise at any time which annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of others unless such noise is necessary for the protection or preservation of property or of the health, safety or life of some person. No person shall make or cause, permit or allow to be made upon a public way, or in such proximity to a public way, as to be distinctly and loudly audible upon such public way, such noises.
(C) No person owning or in possession or control of any building or premises shall use the same, permit the use of the same, or rent the same to be used for any business or employment or residential use, or for any purpose of pleasure or recreation, if such use shall, by its boisterous nature, disturb or destroy the peace of the neighborhood in which such........[missing material]
(Prior Code, § 95.20) (Ord. 2017-005, passed 2-27-2017) Penalty, see § 10.99