(A) Unreasonable or excessive noise. Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, it shall be a violation of this subchapter for any person to cause or make any unreasonable or excessive noise or to allow any unreasonable or excessive noise to be caused or made in or on any real property or personal property within the town limits occupied or controlled by that person.
(B) Specific prohibitions. In addition to the general noise prohibition in division (A) above, the following acts within the town limits are violations of this subchapter.
(1) Motor vehicle noises.
(a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle on a public street, road, alley, highway, park or other public property in which the engine, muffler, exhaust and/or other noise control equipment have been altered, removed or maintained in such disrepair as to generate an unreasonable or excessive noise.
(b) No person shall operate or use any motor vehicle in such a manner to create unreasonable or excessive noise from squealing of tires or grating, grinding, rattling or other noises from disrepair.
(c) No person operating a motor vehicle containing an engine brake system shall apply the engine brakes.
(d) Except as used for warning purposes, no person shall use, operate or sound any horn or other signaling device on any motor vehicle on a public street, road, alley, highway, park or other public property for any unreasonable period of time.
(e) No person shall play, use or operate or allow to be played, used or operated in or on any motor vehicle any sound amplification system at a volume that is louder than necessary for the convenient hearing of persons who are inside the motor vehicle within which such device is played, used or operated.
(2) Noises from premises.
(a) No person shall play, use or operate or allow to be played, used, or operated on a premises any sound amplification system in such a manner that the sound produced causes unreasonable or excessive noise heard beyond the boundaries of the premises by a person with normal hearing.
(b) No person shall keep any animal, including but not limited to dogs and birds, on a premises that causes unreasonable or excessive noise clearly audible to a person from any place other than the premises from which the animal is located.
(3) Machine noises.
(a) No person shall engage in the erection, excavation, demolition, alteration or repair of any building or real estate causing unreasonable or excessive noise between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(b) No person shall engage in the operation, alteration or repair of any pile driver, hydraulic shovel or grader, pneumatic hammer, hoist, blower, fan or other equipment causing unreasonable or excessive noise between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(Ord. 542, passed 7-2-2012) Penalty, see § 94.99