(A) It is unlawful to make, continue, or cause to be made any loud or unusual noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of others.
(B) Unlawful noises include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1) Horns and signal devices. The sounding of any horn or signaling device of any automobile, motorcycle, truck, or other vehicle on any street or public place, except as a danger warning, the creation by means of any such signaling devices of any unreasonable loud or harsh sound, the sounding of such devices for any unnecessary and unreasonable period of time other than by accident or mechanical, electrical, or other difficulty or failure, and the use of any such signaling device where traffic is held up;
(2) Radios and phonographs. The use or operation of any radio, phonograph, or other sound producing machine in such a manner as to disturb the peace and quiet of neighbors;
(3) Loud-speakers and amplifiers used for advertising. The use or operation, or permitting to be played, used, or operated, any radio, receiver set, musical instrument, phonograph, tape recorder, loud-speaker, sound amplifier, or other machine or device for the production or reproduction of sound which is cast upon the public streets for the purpose of commercial advertising, or attracting the attention of the public in any residential area except with the proper permit;
(4) Yelling or shouting. Yelling, shouting, or creating other loud noises which annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of persons in the vicinity;
(5) Animals. The keeping of any animals which, by causing frequent or long continuous noise, shall disturb the comfort or repose of any persons in the vicinity;
(6) Schools, courts, churches, hospitals. The creating of any excessive noise on any street adjacent to any hospital, school, institution of learning, church, or court which interferes with the workings of such institution, or disturbs or annoys patients in a hospital; and
(7) Pounding. The pounding or hammering on any metal object or thing, except inside a building, or in connection with the construction or erection of a building.
(Prior Code, § 7-1-9) Penalty, see § 10.99