Except as otherwise provided in § 96.05, any person who performs any of the acts enumerated in this subsection, or who causes or allows the performance of any of such acts in or upon any property owned, occupied, or controlled by said person, shall be in violation of this section:
(A) Horns and signaling devices. The sounding of any horn, signaling or other similar device on any automobile, motorcycle, or other vehicle on any street or public place except as a danger warning; the creation by means of any such signaling device of any unreasonably loud and raucous sound; and the sounding of any such device for an unreasonable period of time. The use of any signaling device except one operated by hand or electricity; the use of any horn, whistle or other devise operated by engine exhaust; or the use of any such signaling device when traffic is for any reason held up. More than five (5) consecutive seconds shall be a prima facie unreasonable period of time.
(B) Machines and devices for producing sounds. Playing, using, operating or permitting to be played, used, or operated, any radio, television, digital media player, loudspeaker, sound amplifier, musical instrument or any machine or device for producing or reproducing sound from a vehicle, private or public property, including public right-of-way, highway, building, sidewalk, park or thoroughfare, or from a vehicle a vehicle or private property in a manner that makes unreasonable noise. The operation of any such machine or device in a manner that produces sound plainly audible to a person with normal hearing:
(1) From any place other than where the sound source is located when the machine or device is being operated between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.; or
(2) From a distance greater than fifty (50) feet from the sound source of the machine or device when it is located in any public street or public place of the city.
(C) Yelling or shouting. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing on the public streets, particularly between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. or at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any office or in any dwelling, hotel or other type of residence or of any person in the vicinity.
(D) Exhausts blowers, engines and motors. The operation or use of any vehicle or machine powered by an engine, motor, or power unit on a motorboat, motor vehicle, motorcycle, or other vehicle or craft of any kind, blower or power fan in a manner that makes unreasonable noise by in any public street or public place of the city and being operated so that the exhaust bypasses the muffler or noise-reducing device.
(E) Schools, courts, churches, hospitals. The making of noise that is plainly audible to a person with normal hearing above normal ambient noise levels at a distance of fifty (50) feet from the source of the noise on any street adjacent to any school, institution of learning, church, court, or hospital while it is in use, provided that conspicuous signs are displayed in such streets indicating that the area is a school, hospital, or other such quiet zone.
(F) Pile drivers, hammers. The operation of any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammer, derrick, steam or electric hoist, except when being operated by a public utility in connection with emergency repairs of such utility between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
(Ord. G-4-17, passed 3-14-17)