507.14 WASTE DISPOSAL SERVICES.
   (a)   No person authorized to engage in waste disposal services or garbage collection shall provide such services so as to create an unnecessary amount of noise. For the purpose of this section, noise emitted by equipment shall not be deemed unnecessary or without justification if the person engaged in such services has to the extent reasonably feasible in the judgment of the City Administrator, incorporated available sound-deadening devices into equipment used in rendering those services.
   (b)   Notwithstanding the foregoing, no person authorized to engage in waste disposal services, or garbage loading and/or compacting equipment or similar mechanical device in any manner shall create any noise exceeding the following levels when measured at a distance of fifty feet from the equipment when within 500 feet of a residential zone:
 
   (1)   On or after a date one
      year after the
      effective date of
      this section:   9 p.m. to 7 a.m.   7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
          80 dbA    87 dbA
   (2)   On or after a date
      forty-eight months
      after the effective
      date of this
      section:   9 p.m. to 7 a.m.   7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
                80 dbA         82 dbA
   (c)   Impulsive sounds shall not exceed the levels specified in subsection (b)(1) or (2) hereof by more than five dbA unless such person has filed an application for variance in accordance with the provisions of Section 507.16.
(Ord. 93-002. Passed 3-8-93.)