Noncommercial use of sound vehicles with sound-amplifying equipment in operation in the City shall be subject to the following regulations:
A. The only sounds permitted are music or human speech.
B. Operation is permitted for a period of four hours each day except Sundays when no operation shall be permitted.
C. The permitted hours of operation shall be between the hours of eleven-thirty a.m. and one-thirty p.m.; and between the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six-thirty p.m.
D. Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless the vehicle upon which equipment is mounted, or from which sound is emitted, is operated and propelled at a speed of at least fifteen miles per hour, except when the vehicle is stopped or impeded by traffic. When stopped by traffic or otherwise impeded, the sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated for a period longer than one minute at each stop and the sound-amplifying equipment shall not again be operated until the vehicle has progressed three hundred feet from each of such stopping places.
E. Sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated or sound emitted therefrom within three hundred feet of hospitals, schools, churches or courthouses.
F. The human speech or recorded voice amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent, offensive or slanderous, and the words used shall not be such as to incite riot, unlawfulness, breaches of the peace, or force or violence.
G. The volume of sound shall be controlled so that it will not be audible for a distance in excess of three hundred feet from the sound vehicle in any direction.
H. No sound-amplifying equipment shall be operated in excess of fifteen watts of power in the last stages of amplification.
I. The vehicle shall at all times be operated so as not to interfere with the normal movement of traffic of vehicles and pedestrians, and shall be stopped both in movement and operation of sound-amplifying equipment upon the approach of authorized emergency vehicles.
J. The movement of such vehicles shall at all times comply with the provisions of the Vehicle Code and this Code relating to traffic regulations.
K. A statement that applicant, if granted a permit, will not permit, suffer or allow the use and operation of the vehicle in any manner other than as set forth in the application, or the use of any other equipment apparatus or device other than as described and referred to in the application.
L. The vehicle with sound-amplifying equipment shall not be operated within three hundred feet of any hall, auditorium, coliseum or other place wherein a meeting or other public event is in progress and more than one hundred persons are in attendance.
(Ord. 2096, 2-21-56)