It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any machinery, equipment, pump, fan, air conditioning apparatus or similar mechanical devise in any manner so as to create any noise which would cause the noise level at the property line of any property to exceed the ambient noise level by more than five decibels based on a reference sound pressure of 0.0002 microbars as measured in any octave band center frequency, in cycles per sound, as follows: 63, 125, 250, 500, 1,000, 2,000, 4,000 and 8,000, and for the combined frequency bands, “A” band.
(Prior Code, § 17-33) (Ord. 73-5, passed 6-11-1973) Penalty, see § 10.99