The following acts, among others not hereinafter enumerated, are declared to be "noise nuisances," and are unlawful and in violation of the provisions of this chapter when those acts are done or accomplished or carried on in such a manner, or with a volume, intensity or with continued duration, so as to annoy, to distress or to disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of a person of reasonable nervous sensibilities, within the vicinity or hearing thereof, or so as to endanger or injure the safety or health of humans or animals, or so as to interfere with the physical well being or humans or animals, or so as to endanger or injure personal or real property:
(A) The playing or permitting or causing the playing of any radio, television, phonograph, drum, juke box, nickelodeon, musical instrument, sound amplifier or similar device which produces, reproduces, or amplifies sound;
(B) Any loud or vociferous language or any soliciting for, or description of, any amusement house, moving picture theater, or other like place of amusement, for the performance therein, in the entrance thereto, the foyer or lobby thereof, or on the sidewalks adjoining the same;
(C) The continued or frequent sounding of any horn or other signal device on any automobile or vehicle, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle, except as a danger signal;
(D) The sound was produced by the erection, excavation, construction, demolition, alteration or repair work, or the permitting or causing thereof, of any building or other structure, or the operation or the permitting or causing the operation of any tools or equipment used in any such activity conducted between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. and which activity did not produce a sound exceeding 85 dB(A) when measured from the nearest residential property where the sound is being received:
(1) Other than during the daytime on weekdays;
(2) At anytime that the sound level at or across a real property boundary exceeds 80 dB(A); or
(3) This section shall not apply in cases of urgent necessity in the interest of public safety, or in cases of public convenience, including city sponsored or co-sponsored fiestas, parades and public events.
(E) The sound-was produced by operating or permitting the operation of any mechanically powered saw, drill, sander, router, grinder, lawn or garden tool, lawnmower or any other similar device used between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. and which device did not produce a sound exceeding 80 dB(A) when measured from the nearest residential property where the sound is being received and was used for the maintenance or upkeep of the property on which it was used;
(F) The crying, calling or shouting, in person or by a mechanical device, or the use of any whistle, rattle, bell, gong, clapper, hammer, drum, horn, loudspeaker or phonograph with or without an amplifier, hand organ or other devices or instruments, musical or otherwise; and
(G) The raucous shouting, whistling, yelling, singing, hooting or crying of peddlers, hawkers, vendors or any other persons.
(Ord. 1257, passed 5-6-2004) Penalty, see § 94.99