(A) No person within the village shall cause a noise disturbance, which is defined as sound created by human activity with or without the use of any device, which by reason of its volume, intensity, location, or time of day impairs the health, welfare, or peace of another person of normal human sensibilities.
(B) The following acts and activities are declared to be noise disturbances and are prohibited. This enumeration shall not be deemed exclusive.
(1) The playing of any radio, television, phonograph, other sound reproduction device, or musical instrument in such a manner or at such a volume as to be sufficiently audible to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of persons in the vicinity.
(2) The keeping of any animal or bird which, by causing frequent or long continued noise, shall disturb the comfort and response of any person in the vicinity.
(3) The use of any motor vehicle, including motorcycles, in such a manner as to create a disturbing noise, including, but not limited to, the screeching of tires and the discharge into the open air of exhaust from the engine without a sufficient muffler.
(4) Shouting or other raucous or boisterous behavior for an unreasonable length of time.
(C) The Grand Traverse County Sheriff and his or her deputies are authorized as local enforcement officers of this section.
(D) Exempted from this section is any activity defined as a “farm operation” by the Michigan Right to Farm Act, 1980 P.A. 93, being M.C.L.A. § 286.471 et seq.
(E) Nothing in this section impairs or precludes a separate cause of action provided by statute or common law for conduct prohibited herein.
(Ord. 5 08-05, passed 8-1-2005) Penalty, see § 93.99