(a) No sound amplifying device mounted on a vehicle shall operate with a power output in excess of twenty (20) watts, nor with maximum distortion of sound and volume in excess of two percent (2%) at full volume.
(b) No sound amplifying device mounted on a vehicle shall be operated between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. or at any time within five hundred (500) feet of any school, church or hospital.
(c) No sound amplifying device mounted on a vehicle shall be operated on a Sunday; provided that any such device may be operated in substitution for a band as part of a parade held after 1:00 p.m. on Sunday under the auspices of any organization authorized to hold such a parade, if the permit issued pursuant to Section 683.04 so indicates.
(d) No sound amplifying device mounted on a vehicle shall operate within the area bounded on the west by West 9th Street, on the north by Lake Erie, on the east by East 22nd Street and on the south by Woodland Avenue (the “Downtown Area”), except when the Director of Public Safety determines that operation of the sound amplifying device will not unduly disrupt the conducting of businesses in the Downtown Area. No sound amplifying device mounted on a vehicle shall operate within any of the residential districts described in Chapter 337, except when the Director of Public Safety determines that operation of the sound amplifying device will not unduly disrupt the district or districts in which the permit applicant intends to operate said device. In either of such cases the determination of the Director of Public Safety shall be noted on the permit issued pursuant to division (c) of Section 683.04.
(e) No sound amplifying device shall be installed or operated on a vehicle unless the license and permit required by Section 683.04 are conspicuously displayed on said vehicle.
(f) The provisions of this section do not apply to sound amplifying devices mounted on emergency vehicles owned and controlled by the Divisions of Police, Fire or Emergency Medical Services or to private ambulances which are engaged in responding to emergency calls.
(Ord. No. 2487-A-89. Passed 6-18-90, eff. 6-27-90)