The following additional provisions shall apply to certain special noise sources:
(A) Radios, television sets, and similar devices. It shall be unlawful for any person within the city to use or operate any radio receiving set, musical instrument, phonograph, television set, or other similar device for the producing or reproducing of sound in any manner or to use bells, whistles, or any device conveying speech content or music as may be generated by sound amplifying equipment so as to create any noise which would cause the noise level to exceed the ambient noise level a maximum of five dB(A) at the boundary of any property within a residential zone or at the boundary of any private residential open space, or within the common outdoor area of any multiple residential development.
(B) Construction of buildings and projects. It shall be unlawful for any person within a residential zone, or within a radius of 500 feet therefrom, to operate equipment or perform any outside construction or repair work on buildings, structures, or projects or to operate any pile driver, power shovel, pneumatic hammer, derrick, power hoist, or any other construction type device between the hours of 7:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00 a.m. of the next day.
(C) Maintenance. It shall be unlawful for any person, including city and utility crews, to perform maintenance of real property, other than emergency work, between 7:00 p.m. on one day and 7:00 a.m. of the following day, if such maintenance activity produces noise above the ambient level at any lot line of property within a residential zone.
('64 Code, § 52.35) (Am. Ord. 712, passed 6-11-87) Penalty, see § 10.97