(a) No person shall generate or permit to be generated unreasonable noise or loud sound which is likely to cause inconvenience or annoyance to persons of ordinary sensibilities, by means of a radio, phonograph, television, tape or disc player, loudspeaker or any other sound-amplifying device, or by means of any horn, drum, piano or other musical or percussion instrument.
(b) It is prima facie unlawful for a person to generate or permit to be generated sound by the devices or instruments described in division (a) hereof in the following circumstances:
(1) On private property between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day in a predominantly residential area, regardless of an existing nonconforming use or variance, where the sound is audible more than eighty feet from the property line of the property on which the source of the sound is located;
(2) On a street or highway or in the public right-of-way where the sound is audible 100 feet from the device generating the sound. Persons in possession of a current parade permit issued pursuant to Chapter 644 are exempt from the provisions of this section.
(c) No person, being the owner of a premises, a person in possession of a premises, or a person in control of a premises by reason of employment, agency or otherwise, whether such ownership, possession or control is exclusive or joint, shall permit a violation of this section.
(d) Warning or alarm devices licensed under Chapter 819 of the Business Regulation and Taxation Code are exempt from the prohibitions of this section.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of generating unreasonable noise, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 092-50, passed 5-19-1992)