It is unlawful to perform any of the following acts within the city:
A. Horns, Signaling Devices And Jake Brakes: Repeatedly sounding any horn, signaling device or jake brakes on any truck, automobile, motorcycle, or other vehicle on any street or public place of the city except as a warning signal.
B. Sound Amplifying Equipment: Using, operating, or permitting the use of any radio receiving set, musical instrument, amplifier, television, tape player, phonograph, or other machine or device for the production or reproduction of sound in such a manner as to disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of any normally sensitive and reasonable person, or the operation of any such sets, instruments, amplifiers, television, radio, phonograph, machine or device in such a manner as to be in violation of this chapter.
C. Loudspeakers And Amplifiers For Commercial Purposes; Permit: Installing, using or operating within the city a loudspeaker or sound amplifying equipment in a fixed or movable position or mounted upon any sound truck for the purpose of giving instructions, directions, talks, addresses, lectures, or transmitting music to any person or assemblages of persons in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk, park, place, or public property without first obtaining a permit.
D. Yelling Or Shouting: Repeated yelling, shouting, hooting or whistling within yards, outside public or private homes, on the public streets, alleys, or parks at any time in such a manner as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of any normally sensitive and reasonable person.
E. Animals: Owning, keeping, having in possession or harboring any animals which by frequent, sustained or habitual howling, barking, meowing, squawking or any other noise in such a manner as to disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of any normally sensitive and reasonable person.
F. Exhausts: Discharging into the open air the exhaust of any steam engine, stationary internal combustion engine, motorboat, or motor vehicle, except through a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises therefrom.
G. Defect In Vehicle Or Load: Operating any truck, trailer, automobile, motorcycle, or vehicle so out of repair or so loaded in such a manner as to create loud and unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or other noises.
H. Loading, Unloading And Opening Containers: Loading, unloading, opening or other handling of boxes, crates, containers, garbage containers, or other objects in such a manner as to disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of any normally sensitive and reasonable person.
I. Construction Projects Or Repair Of Buildings: Operating equipment or performing any construction or repair work between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and six o'clock (6:00) A.M. on buildings, structures or projects or operating any pile driver, excavator, pneumatic hammer, derrick, steam or electric hoist or other construction type device in such a manner as to disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of any normally sensitive and reasonable person.
J. Exemption Clause: Any of the above acts performed for emergency work for the safety, welfare, and public health of the citizens of the city and to the extent that the noise thereby created is reasonably necessary for the public benefit will not be construed to be in violation of this chapter. (Ord. 371, 10-18-1999)