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(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
No motor vehicle shall be operated upon any public way in the city unless the same is provided with a muffler in efficient and actual working condition, the use of a cutout is forbidden and no person shall operate any motor vehicle in such a manner so as to cause the same to make unusually loud or unnecessary noise.
(Prior Code, § 95.21) (Ord. 1949, passed 1-28-1948) Penalty, see § 10.99
No railroad company shall cause or allow the whistle of any locomotive engine to be sounded within the city, except necessary brake signals and such as may be absolutely necessary to prevent injury to life and property.
(Prior Code, § 95.22) Penalty, see § 10.99
No person shall use, or cause to be used, or permit any of such person’s agents or employees to use or operate any motor vehicle, wagon or other vehicle upon the streets or other public places of the city when the motor vehicle, wagon or other vehicle is equipped with the kind of siren or gong with which the vehicles belonging to the Police Department or Fire Department of the city are equipped.
(Prior Code, § 95.23) Penalty, see § 10.99
WEEDS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly implies or requires a different meaning.
NOXIOUS WEEDS. Canada thistles and all of its varieties, perennial sow thistles, European bindweed, leafy spurge, Russian knapweed, Johnson grass, giant foxtail, hoary cress ragweed and other weeds of whatever kind.
TALL GRASS. Grass of any kind that exceeds eight inches in height, except for grass on public property which is intended to exceed eight inches in height, such as is or may be found in prairies, wetlands, detention ponds or other similar areas.
(Ord. 2022-032, passed 4-26-2022)
(A) No owner of real estate within the city shall knowingly permit the growth of noxious weeds or tall grass on his or her property.
(B) Weeds and tall grass that exist on property within the city are hereby declared to be a nuisance. Where such a nuisance is found to exist on private property or on the public parkway abutting private property, the city may issue a violation notice to the property owner for adjudication through the Circuit Court or the city’s administrative adjudication system.
(C) The violation notice and any penalties that are imposed shall be independent of, and in addition to, any proceedings to abate the nuisance and lien on the property for costs as stated in §§ 95.039 and 95.040 of this code. Penalties for violations of this section are graduated and are set forth in § 10.99 of this code.
(Ord. 2022-032, passed 4-26-2022) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) All landscaping including, but not limited to, trees, shrubs, plants, flowers and the like that exists on any property must be properly maintained in order for the landscaped areas to fulfill the purposes for which they were established. The owner of the property and any tenant on the property where landscaping exists shall be jointly and severally responsible for the maintenance of all landscape materials on the property. Such maintenance shall include all actions necessary to keep the landscaped areas free of litter, weeds and debris and to keep plantings healthy and orderly and aesthetically pleasing in appearance. Improperly maintained landscaping on property within the city is hereby declared a nuisance.
(B) Where such a nuisance is found to exist on private property or on the public parkway abutting private property, the city may issue a violation notice to the property owner for adjudication through the Circuit Court or the city’s administrative adjudication system.
(C) The violation notice and any penalties imposed shall be independent of, and in addition to, any proceedings to abate the nuisance and lien on the property for costs pursuant to §§ 95.039 through 95.041 of this code. Penalties for violations of this section are graduated and are set forth in § 10.99 of this code.
(Ord. 2022-032, passed 4-26-2022) Penalty, see § 10.99
No owner of real estate within the city shall permit any weeds, grass or plants, other than trees, flowers or other ornamental plants, to grow thereon to a height in excess of eight inches.
(Ord. 2022-032, passed 4-26-2022) Penalty, see § 10.99
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