649.10 POWER EQUIPMENT AND HAND TOOL LIMITS.

   (a)    No person shall use, operate, sell or lease, or offer for sale or lease, any powered equipment or powered hand tool that produces a maximum noise level exceeding the following noise levels at a distance of fifty feet under the test procedures established by Section 649.21:

Type of Equipment	Noise Limit
(1)    Construction and Industrial machinery, such as crawler-tractors, dozers, rotary drills and augers, loaders, power shovels, cranes, derricks, motor graders, paving machines, off-highway trucks, ditchers, trenchers, compactors, scrapers, wagons, pavement breakers, compressors and pneumatic powered equipment, etc., but not including pile drivers.
Manufactured after January 1,1973	88 dB(A)
Manufactured after January 1,1975	86 dB(A)
(2)    Agricultural tractors and equipment.
Manufactured after January 1,1973	88 dB(A)
Manufactured after January 1,1975	86 dB(A)
(3)    Powered commercial equipment of 20 HP or less intended for infrequent use in a residential area, such as chain saws, pavement breakers, log chippers, powered hand tools, etc.
Manufactured after January 1, 1973	88 dB(A)
Manufactured after January 1, 1975	86 dB(A)
(4)    Powered equipment intended for repetitive use in residential areas. Such equipment includes lawn mowers, small lawn and garden tools, riding tractors and snow removal equipment.
Manufactured after January 1, 1972	88 dB(A)
Manufactured after January 1, 1973	86 dB(A)

   (b)    Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02. (Ord. 1999-52. Passed 11-9-99.)