(A) General prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued any excessive or unusually loud noise, or to create a noise disturbance within the limits of the village.
(B) Specific prohibitions. The following acts, among others, are declared to be in violation of this chapter and unlawful, but this enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(1) Alarms and bells. Sounding, operating, or permitting the sounding or operation for more than five minutes, or between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., of any electronically amplified signal from any bell or chime from any clock, school, church, or governmental building.
(2) Fireworks or explosives. The using of explosives, which create impulsive noise between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. or in such manner as to cause a noise disturbance, is prohibited. The using of fireworks shall be permitted from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. during the ten days proceeding the 4th of July and from 7:00 a.m. to midnight on the 4th of July each year. The use of fireworks shall not be permitted at any other time.
(3) Horns and signaling devices.
(a) Sounding of any horn or signaling device on any truck, automobile, motorcycles, emergency vehicle or other vehicle on any street or public place of the village except as a danger warning signal.
(b) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the sounding of horns in the customary practices of celebrating weddings or in celebrating the victory of a sports event, such as a football game, so long as such sounding of horns is within two hours or the completion of any such event.
(4) Loading operations. Loading, unloading, opening, or otherwise handling boxes, crates, containers, garbage containers, or other objects in such a manner as to create a noise disturbance.
(5) Loudspeakers, exterior.
(a) Using or operating a loudspeaker or sound amplifying equipment in a fixed or movable position or mounted upon any motor vehicle upon any street, alley, sidewalk, park, place, public or private property without first obtaining a permit.
(b) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to emergency vehicles when such emergency vehicles are responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual suspected violator of the law, or when responding to but not returning from a fire alarm.
(c) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any bell or chime or any device for the production of the sound of bells or chimes from any church, clock, or school so long as such sounds comply with subsections (a) and (b) of this division.
(6) Peddlers and hawkers. Selling anything by outcry within any area of the village zoned primarily for residential uses. The provisions of this subsection shall not be construed as prohibiting the selling by outcry of merchandise, food, and beverages at licensed sporting events, parades, fairs, circuses, and other similar licensed public entertainment events.
(7) Radios, television sets, and similar devices.
(a) Using, operating, or permitting the use or operation of any radio receiving set, musical instrument, television, phonograph, drum, or other machine or device for the production or reproduction of sound, except as provided for in subsection (5), in such manner as to cause noise disturbance or operating any such device between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and the following 7:00 a.m. in such a manner as to be plainly audible at the property boundary of the source, or plainly audible through walls common to two parties within a building.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, it is permissible for any senior high school or junior high school band to perform or practice prior to the hour of 7:00 a.m.
(8) Recreational activities, nonvehicular. The flying of model aircraft powered by internal combustion engines, whether tethered or not; or the firing or operation of model rockets or other similar noise-producing devices between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance.
(9) Vehicles, repairs or testing. Repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing any truck, automobile, motorcycle, or other motor vehicle in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance or violate the provisions of division (10).
(10) Vehicles, standing. Operating, or permitting the operation of any motor vehicle in excess of 10,000 pounds, manufactures gross weight, or any attached auxiliary equipment, for a consecutive period longer than ten minutes while such a vehicle is standing on a public right-of-way in a residential district or is on private property in a residential district or is on private property in a residential zone and is not within a completely enclosed structure.
(Ord. D-166, passed 12-8-1998)