A. General Prohibition: It shall be unlawful for any person to make or cause to be made a noise disturbance within the limits of Riverdale City, except as otherwise permitted in this chapter.
B. Specific Prohibitions: The following are specifically prohibited, except as otherwise permitted in or exempted from this chapter:
1. No person shall operate, play or permit the operation or playing of any radio, television, drum, musical instrument, player, sound amplifier or similar device which produces, reproduces or amplifies sound:
a. In such manner as to cause a noise disturbance.
b. In such manner, which is plainly audible at a distance of fifty feet (50') from such source, when the source is operated from a residence, a motor vehicle or hand carried on a public right of way or public space.
2. No person(s) shall yell, shout, hoot, sing, make other loud or disruptive noises on the public streets between the hours of eleven o'clock (11:00) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M., or at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of any person in the vicinity.
3. No person shall operate or permit the operation of any tools or equipment used on construction operations, drilling or demolition or other work or in the sweeping of parking lots in areas directly adjacent to residential districts between the hours of eleven o'clock (11:00) P.M. of one day and six o'clock (6:00) A.M. of the following day on weekdays and Saturdays or at any time on Sundays or legal holidays such that the sound therefrom causes an unusually loud and/or annoying noise disturbance.
4. No person shall operate or permit the operation of any electrically powered saw, drill, sander, grinder, lawn or garden tool, snowblower or similar device used outdoors between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. of one day and six o'clock (6:00) A.M. of the following day so as to cause a noise disturbance.
5. No person shall load, open, close or otherwise handle boxes, crates, containers, building materials, garbage cans or other objects between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. of one day and six o'clock (6:00) A.M. of the following day in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a residential lot line. This subsection shall not apply to municipal or utility services in or about the public right of way.
6. No person shall offer for sale, or sell, by shouting or outcry or by any other amplified or unamplified sound, except between the hours of seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. of one day and seven o'clock (7:00) P.M. of the same day.
7. No person shall sound any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle, bus, or other vehicle for any purpose other than to avoid an accident or collision or other lawful reason.
8. No person shall use a product which has had a muffler or sound dissipative device or element of design or noise label removed or rendered inoperative with knowledge or reason to know that such action has occurred.
9. No person shall repair, rebuild, test or otherwise work on any motorcycle or other motor vehicle, motorboat or aircraft in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a lot line of the receiving land use.
10. No person shall create such other noise as might pose a danger to the public health, safety or welfare of the city or otherwise constitute a nuisance in fact.
11. No person, including, without limitation, a pedestrian, shall make, continue or cause to be made or continued any noise, which creates or causes a noise disturbance.
12. No person shall operate a motorcycle, truck, automobile or other motor vehicle in such a manner as to cause it to create a noise disturbance.
13. No person shall keep any animal, bird or fowl which emanates frequent or extended noise which shall disturb the quiet, comfort and repose of any person in the vicinity. (Ord. 740, 8-4-2009)