A. Noises Prohibited: No person shall wilfully use or employ in the city any bell, whistle, horn or sounding instrument for alarm, or any device, noise or performance used by the police department or fire department of said city in the performance of the duties of such department, nor shall any person make any unnecessary noise or sound with his automobile horn while driving upon the streets of the city. This subsection shall not apply to members of the city police department or the city fire department, or to other law enforcement or emergency vehicles when sound making devices on said vehicles are being used in the course of duty by those lawfully authorized to use the same and when acting in the scope of their duty. (1975 Code Ch. 11 § III)
B. Regulation Of Noises:
1. No person owning, occupying or having charge of any building or premises, or any part thereof, shall cause, suffer, or allow any unreasonably loud or excessive noise in the operating or use of any radio, phonograph or other mechanical or electrical sound making or reproducing device, instrument or machine under circumstances in which the conduct, sufferance or allowance tends to cause or provoke a disturbance or which tends to disturb the comfort, quiet or repose of any reasonable person therein or in the vicinity.
2. No person owning, occupying, or having charge of any building or premises, or any part thereof, shall cause, suffer, or allow any unreasonably loud or excessive noise of any nature, whether emitted by a person or persons or an animal or animals, under circumstances in which the conduct, sufferance or allowance tends to cause or provoke a disturbance or which tends to disturb the comfort, quiet or repose of any reasonable person therein or in the vicinity.
3. No person owning, occupying or having charge of any public building, place or premises, or any part thereof, shall cause, suffer, or allow any radio, phonograph or other mechanical or electrical sound making or reproducing device, instrument or machine to be operated upon such premises, or any part thereof, between the hours of one o'clock (1:00) A.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M.
4. No person owning, occupying or having charge of any public building, place or premises, or any part thereof, shall cause, or allow any phonograph or other mechanical or electrical sound making or reproducing devices, instrument or machine to be operated upon such premises or any part thereof, unless such machine shall be so equipped that the volume control is wired to the desk or bar of such person or his employees and not in a place from which it may be operated in the public. (1975 Code Ch. 11 § IV)
5. The erection (including excavating), demolition, alteration and repair of any building as well as the operation of any pile driver, excavating equipment, pneumatic hammer, derrick, power or electric hoist, chain saw, power mower or other residential power garden tools, the use of which is attended by noise which tends to disturb the comfort, quiet or repose of any reasonable person therein or within the vicinity, shall be permitted between the hours of six o'clock (6:00) A.M. and nine o'clock (9:00) P.M. only. However, the city administrator shall have the authority, upon determining that the loss or inconvenience which would result to any party in interest would be extraordinary and of such a nature as to warrant special consideration, to grant permission for a period necessary within which time such work and operation shall take place between the hours of nine o'clock (9:00) P.M. and six o'clock (6:00) A.M. This subsection shall not apply to the operation of agricultural equipment on land zoned for or used for an agricultural activity as that term is defined in section 101.10(1)(a), Wisconsin statutes. (Ord. 2005-14, 10-17-2005)