a. No person shall make or cause to be made any sound that unreasonably annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety or welfare of any person, or precludes their employment of property or affects their property values where the sound generated therefrom exceeds the sound pressure level table as identified in Section 6-240(s).
b. No person shall play, use or operate any machine or device for the producing or reproducing of sound, including, but not limited to, loudspeakers, radios, CD players, television sets, musical instruments, phonographs and cassette players, nor any other machine or tool that produces sound, if such machine or tool exceeds the sound pressure level table as identified in Section 6-240(s).
c. No person shall keep any animal, other than a service animal (awfully used by a handicapped person to accommodate his/her handicap, which causes frequent or long-continuing sound that exceeds the sound pressure level table as identified in Section 6-240(s).
d. No person shall cause or allow the emission of any prominent discrete tone from any property-tine sound source located on any Residential, Commercial, or Industrial Zone to any receiving Residential, Commercial or Industrial Zone.
e. This rule shall not apply to prominent discrete tones having a one-third sound pressure level 10 or more dB below the allowable sound pressure level specified above.
f. It shall unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle within the corporate limits of the Town in the following manner:
1. For any person to cause the sound pressure level of the sound emitted during the operation of a light motor vehicle which exceeds the sound pressure level table as identified in Section 6-240(s).
2. To operate a light motor vehicle, which causes excessive sound as a result of either: a defective or modified exhaust system, an unnecessary rapid acceleration, deceleration, engine revving, or tire squealing with any of the aforementioned which exceeds the sound pressure level table as identified in Section 6-240(s).
3. Except when a higher limit is expressly allowed by Federal or state law, it shall be unlawful for any person to cause the sound pressure level of the sound emitted during the operation of any motor vehicle which exceeds the sound pressure level table as identified in Section 6-240(s). This section shall apply to all motor vehicles, regardless of whether the motor vehicle generating the sound is located on public real property (including but not limited to a public road or highway) or on private property.
(Ord. No. 1557A, § 2, 9-12-07; Ord. No. 1935, § 2, 2-13-19)