It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the following activities:
A. Sounding any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle, bus, or other motor vehicle in any other manner or circumstances or for any other purpose than required or permitted by the California Vehicle Code, or other laws, for an unnecessary or unreasonable period of time;
B. Racing the engine of any motor vehicle while the vehicle is not in motion, except when necessary to do so in the course of repairing, adjusting, or testing the same.
C. Operating or permitting the use of any motor vehicle on any public right-of-way or public place or on private property within a residential zone for which the exhaust muffler, intake muffler, or any other noise abatement device has been modified or changed in a manner such that the noise emitted by the motor vehicle is increased above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured.
D. Using, operating, or permitting to be played, used or operated any radio receiving set, musical instrument, phonograph, or other sound amplification or production equipment for producing or reproducing sound in such a manner as to disturb the peace, quiet, or comfort of neighboring persons, or at any time with louder volume than is necessary for the convenient hearing of the person or persons who are in the room, vehicle, or other enclosure in which such machine or device is operated, and who are voluntary listeners thereto and that is:
1. Plainly audible across property boundaries;
2. Plainly audible through partitions common to two residences within a building;
3. Plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet in any direction from the source of the music or sound between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.; or
4. Plainly audible at a distance of 25 feet in any direction from the source of the music or sound between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
E. The intentional sounding or permitting the sounding outdoors of any fire, burglar, or civil defense alarm, siren, whistle, or any motor vehicle burglar alarm, except for emergency purposes or for testing, unless such alarm is terminated within fifteen minutes of activation.
F. Yelling, shouting, whistling, or singing in a loud and boisterous manner on the public streets so as to disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of persons in any office, dwelling, hotel, or other type of residence, or neighborhood.
G. The keeping of any animal, fowl, or bird which by causing frequent or long continued noise disturbs the comfort, quiet, or repose of any person or neighborhood.
H. The unnecessary or excessive blowing of whistles, sounding of horns, ringing of bells, or use of signaling devices by operators of trains, motor trucks, and other transportation equipment.
I. The creation of loud and excessive noise in connection with the loading or unloading of motor trucks and other vehicles.
J. The shouting and crying of peddlers, hawkers, and vendors which disturbs the peace and quiet of any considerable number of persons or neighborhood.
K. The doing of automobile, automotive body or fender repair work, or other work on metal objects and metal parts in a residential district so as to cause loud and excessive noise which disturbs the peace, quiet, and repose of any person occupying adjoining or closely situated property or neighborhood.
L. The operation or use between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of any pile driver, steam shovel, pneumatic hammers, derrick, steam or electric hoist, power driven saw, or any other tool or apparatus, the use of which is attended by loud and excessive noise, except with the approval of the City.
M. Creating excessive noise adjacent to any school, church, court, or library while the same is in use, or adjacent to any hospital or care facility, which unreasonably interferes with the workings of such institution, or which disturbs or unduly annoys patients in the hospital, provided conspicuous signs are displayed in such streets indicating the presence of a school, institution of learning, church, court, or hospital.
N. Making or knowingly and unreasonably permitting to be made any unreasonably loud, unnecessary, or unusual noise that disturbs the comfort, repose, health, peace and quiet, or which causes discomfort or annoyance to any reasonable person of normal sensitivity. The characteristics and conditions that may be considered in determining whether this section has been violated include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. The level of noise;
2. The level of background noise;
3. The proximity of the noise to sleeping facilities;
4. The nature and zoning of the areas within which the noise emanates;
5. The density of the inhabitation of the area within which the noise emanates;
6. The time of day or night the noise occurs;
7. The duration of the noise;
8. Whether the noise is recurrent, intermittent, or constant; and
9. Whether the noise is produced by a commercial or noncommercial activity.
(Ord. MC-1246, 5-23-07; Ord. 2102, 4-03-56; Ord. 1925, 11-06-51)