(A) It is unlawful for any person to make, continue to make, 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 the 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 the neighbors.
(3) Loudspeakers 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, loudspeaker, 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 office, dwelling, hotel or residence, or of any persons in the vicinity.
(5) Schools, courts, churches, hospitals. The creating of any excessive noise on any street adjacent to any hospital, institution of learning, church or court which interferes with the workings of the institution or which disturbs or annoys patients in a hospital.
(6) Retarders, Jake brakes, engine brakes and other like devices. The sounding of any device or piece of equipment, including but not limited to a retarder, Jake brake and/or engine brake, which helps slow a motor vehicle's rate of speed, except in an emergency situation where extra braking power is required to avert the danger of bodily harm to a person or damage to property when the emergency situation is not caused by the driver using the device. Retarder, Jake brake and engine brake mean any exhaust and/or engine device used as braking power to slow down a motor vehicle's rate of speed. When activated, a retarder, Jake brake or engine brake creates noise through the motor vehicle's exhaust system.
(Ord. 25, passed 2-3-1999; Am. Ord. 83, passed 8-17-2005) Penalty, see § 10.99