(a) Limiting Use of Loud-speakers or Noise Producing Devices. No person shall use a loud-speaker or noise producing device on any vehicle, trailer or bicycle used for the sale of ice cream, soft drinks, candy, confections or other similar products on any public street or alley within the corporate limits of the City between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 a.m. Such loud-speaker or noise producing device also shall not be operated when the vehicle, trailer or bicycle is stopped to make sales.
(b) Warning Lights. Any vehicle, trailer or bicycle used for the sale of ice cream, soft drinks, candy, confections or other similar products on any public street or alley within the corporate limits of the City shall have two yellow warning lights permanently mounted on the highest part of the vehicle, trailer or bicycle in a manner which makes them clearly visible when the vehicle, trailer or bicycle is approached from either the front or rear.
Such yellow warning lights shall be operated continuously when the vehicle, trailer or bicycle has slowed down to ten miles per hour or less, when it is preparing to stop for sales activity and when it is stopped to make sales. Such yellow warning lights shall have lenses which are at least seven inches in diameter and the lights shall have an intensity of at least fifty candlepower per light.
(c) Selling to Persons in Street Prohibited. The operator or person employing a vehicle, trailer or bicycle to sell ice cream, soft drinks, candy, confections or other similar products shall not sell or offer for sale any of the foregoing products to any person when that person is on or within any public street or public right of way normally used by motor vehicles. The operator shall also comply with all applicable traffic and parking regulations of the City while such vehicle, trailer or bicycle is being operated within the City.
(Ord. 68-1971. Passed 7-6-71.)
(d) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.