A. Operation.
(1) No person shall operate, park, stop, stand, place or maintain any all-terrain vehicle and/or motorized vehicle on any public sidewalk or any public property, including without limitation any park or recreation facility, except where expressly authorized by law; provided that the owner or a person with lawful permission of the owner may temporarily place an all-terrain vehicle and/or motorized vehicle on the sidewalk abutting his or her house or abutting any premises where the vehicle is lawfully stored, for purposes of lawfully transporting the vehicle to a location outside the City within 48 hours of notice.
(2) Nothing in this section prohibits the lawful transport of an all-terrain vehicle and/or motorized vehicle on a licensed trailer or other safe carrier, or the manual transport of a vehicle onto or off of such a carrier, so long as the motor or engine of the all-terrain vehicle remains off at all times. Additionally, this does not grant the operator authority to state or local highways to gain access to a permitted ATV area of operation.
B. Nuisance.
(1) An ATV and/or motorized vehicle operator must remain at least 100 feet from any adjoining or adjacent property line, and must remain at least 150 feet from an off-site residential dwelling.
(2) No person shall operate an ATV and/or motorized device without an effective and suitable muffling device on its engine which efficiently deadens or muffles the noise of the exhaust.
(3) This does not include municipal, emergency and law enforcement vehicles or vehicles used exclusively for agricultural or in support of a licensed commercial business operations.