(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to make or operate or cause to be made any loud, unnecessary or disturbing noise that annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of neighboring person(s) of ordinary sensibilities. In determining whether a noise is loud, unnecessary, or disturbing, the following factors shall be considered: time of day, proximity to residential properties or areas as defined above; whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent, or constant; the volume and intensity; where the noise has been enhanced in volume or range by any type of electronic or mechanical means; and whether the noise is subject to being controlled without unreasonable effort or expense to the creator thereof.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to make, assist in making, permit, continue, cause to be made or continued, or permit the continuance of any sound that unreasonably disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of person(s) of ordinary sensibilities.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person, between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following morning, in either a public or private place or house in the city, to create, make or cause to be made upon musical instruments, horns or bugles, or by any other means, any loud noise which unreasonably disturbs others in the vicinity of any such public or private place or house.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to pour a slab, demolish a building, or utilize any commercial or industrial power tools before 7:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m. on any day without having notified all persons who would be entitled to notice of a zoning change under the city zoning regulations as may be amended from time to time in relation to the property upon which the pouring, demolition or use of tools is to take place at least ten days prior to such activity. Such notice shall be sent in the same manner as set out in the zoning regulations. No building permit shall be issued in the absence of such notice. This prohibition shall not apply to emergency work or city public works or utility crews.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any gravel pit, rock crusher, or other machinery for the separation, gathering, grading, loading, or unloading of sand, rock, or gravel within 600 feet of any private residence, church or hospital in the city during nighttime hours if the operation of such plant or machinery is attended with loud noise or noises reasonably disturbing to neighboring person(s) of ordinary sensibilities.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person to make or allow the making of noises including, but not limited to, the following: barking dog(s); gas or electric motors; car alarm; vehicle exhaust; engine braking; radios, boom boxes, musical instruments, and other devices which produce, reproduce or amplify sound; the cries of peddlers, hawkers, and vendors; or any other noise during nighttime in a residential area which can be heard beyond the real property line of the premises from which the noise is originating.
(G) The acts enumerated in the following sections of this chapter, among others, are declared to be loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noises in violation of this chapter, but such enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive.
(H) This chapter shall not apply to any public utility or public works.
(Ord. 986, passed 11-16-20)