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There is hereby created and established a zone of quiet in all territory embraced within the block upon which abuts the premises of any hospital owned, controlled or operated by the federal, state, county or city governments or any licensed hospital or home.
(Prior code § 36-1)
It shall be the duty of the commissioner of transportation to place, or cause to be placed, and maintained, at each and every street intersection at which traffic vehicles are diverted under the provisions of this chapter, a conspicuous sign displaying the words:
NOTICE
ZONE OF QUIET
Traffic vehicles prohibited between the hours of 2 and 7 o'clock a.m.
ZONE OF QUIET
Traffic vehicles prohibited between the hours of 2 and 7 o'clock a.m.
(Prior code § 36-2; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.9)
No wagon, cart, dray, truck, automobile truck, or other heavy traffic vehicle, shall, between the hours of 2:00 and 7:00 a.m., approach upon or along any street upon which abuts any licensed hospital, or any hospital owned, controlled or operated by the federal, state, county or city governments, nearer in any given direction than the nearest street which crosses or intersects the street upon which such hospital premises abut; and in any case where any hospital premises are located at a street corner, or other street intersection, no such vehicle as herein described shall between the hours of 2:00 and 7:00 a.m. approach such hospital premises upon or along any street upon which such hospital premises abut nearer than the street nearest in any given direction to either or any of the streets abutted upon by such hospital premises; provided, that any vehicle carrying goods, merchandise, wares or other articles to or from any house or premises abutting upon any part of a street affected by this chapter shall be permitted to enter thereon and deliver or receive such goods, merchandise, wares or other articles; and provided further, that any vehicles carrying tools, machinery, material or other articles used for the construction, repair or cleaning of the pavement, sewers, waterpipes, lamps or any other municipal property, or the gas mains, electric wires, streetcar tracks, lampposts or other properties, appurtenances or attachments of any public utility in any part of a street affected by this chapter, shall be permitted to enter thereon for the purpose of such construction, repair or cleaning. This prohibition shall not apply to any street or part of a street lying in that part of the city bounded on the north by the Chicago River, on the east by Michigan Avenue, on the south by Twenty-second Street and on the west by the Chicago River.
(Prior code § 36-3)
There are hereby created and established zones of quiet during school hours in all public ways surrounding every block within which is located a building used, controlled, leased or operated for free common school education in the city.
It shall be the duty of the commissioner of transportation to place, or cause to be placed, on lampposts or some other conspicuous place, as near to each of the corners as practicable of every such block wherein such zone of quiet is established, as provided in this section, signs or placards displaying the words, "Notice Zone Of Quiet".
(Prior code § 36-6; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.9)
The making, causing or permitting to be made of any unnecessary noise of any kind whatsoever, or the playing of itinerant musicians, or the making of noises for the purpose of advertising any goods, wares or merchandise, or of attracting the attention or inviting the patronage of any person to any business, or the playing of itinerant musicians upon the public ways within any zone of quiet established in accordance with this chapter, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and is hereby prohibited.
(Prior code § 36-7)
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