(A) License required.
(1) No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck in the city for any purpose with sound amplifying equipment in operation unless a license has been obtained from the City Secretary.
(2) The fee for said license shall be: $1 for non-commercial or civic one-time use; and $3 for commercial one-time use and $25 for commercial use for one year.
(B) Application for license. Persons applying for the license under division (A) above shall file with the City Secretary an application in writing giving in said application the information requested.
(C) Issuance of license. The City Secretary shall issue a license under division (A) above upon payment of the required license fee unless the application required in division (B) above reveals that the applicant would violate the regulations prescribed in this subchapter or the provisions of some other ordinance of the city, which shall be valid for one year from the date issued.
(D) Possession and display of license. A licensee shall keep such license in his or her possession in the sound truck during the time the sound truck’s sound amplifying equipment is in operation. The license shall be promptly displayed and shown to any police officer of the city, upon request.
(E) Regulation for use. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck in violation of the regulations set forth hereafter.
(1) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech.
(2) Operations are permitted for one hour each day, except on Sunday and legal holidays when no operations shall be authorized. The permitted one hour of operation shall be between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
(3) Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless a sound truck, upon which such equipment is mounted, is operated at a speed of at least ten mph, except when such truck is stopped or impeded shall not be operated for longer than one minute at each such stop.
(4) Sound shall not be issued within 100 yards of hospitals, school or churches.
(5) The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane lewd, indecent or slanderous.
(6) The volume of sound shall be controlled so that it will not be audible for a distance in excess of 100 feet from the sound truck and so that volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility.
(Ord. 2013-03, passed 1-15-2013) Penalty, see § 91.99