It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle within the city which produces, creates, generates, amplifies, continues or causes to be produced, created, generated or amplified any excessive noise or sound, when the vehicle is being driven or is parked on public property, public ways or public rights-of-ways. For the purpose of this section, the term “excessive noise” shall mean noise or sound which injures or endangers the comfort, repose, peace, safety or health of a human being, or annoys or disturbs a reasonable person and which is produced, created, generated or amplified by radios, stereos, television equipment, electronic audio equipment, musical instruments and similar devices which is plainly audible to any person 50 feet or more from the motor vehicle which produces, creates, generates, amplifies continues or causes to be produced, created, generated or amplified the excessive noise or sound and the term “plainly audible” means any person can hear the content of the sound produced by the noise source including but not limited to musical rhythms, spoken words and vocal sounds.
(`90 Code, § 14-84) (Ord. 2964, passed 8-18-92)