(A) The following activities are recognized as tending to produce unreasonably loud noises and as tending to constitute a noise disturbance. No person shall engage in any of the enumerated activities so as to cause a noise disturbance on neighboring premises:
(1) Operation of radios, televisions, or sound reproduction devices;
(2) Playing of any amplified or non-amplified musical instrument; and
(3) Keeping of any animal or bird that frequently or for long periods of time makes noises that tend to annoy or unreasonably disturb others.
(B) In addition to and not in limitation to the specific prohibitions outlined in § 92.24(A), no person shall operate or permit to be operated any noise source which generates a sound pressure level exceeding the limits set forth in the following tables when measured at or outside the property boundary of the noise source or at any point within any other property affected by the noise.
Maximum Sound Pressure Levels:
Zoning Districts | Non-Nighttime Hours | Nighttime Hours |
Residential | 60 dB(A) | 50 dB(A) |
All other Zoning Districts | 65 dB(A) | 60 dB(A) |
(Ord. 16-09, passed 5-17-16; Am. Ord. 21-10, passed 6-15-21)