(a) No person shall operate power equipment, construction tools, machinery and/or perform any construction related activity on any non-residentially zoned property, or as part of any commercial construction project in any residential zoned area, between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., or at any time on Sundays, except for emergency situations or by approval of the City Safety Director with the specific authorization of Council.
Power equipment, construction tools, and machinery that are subject to this section shall include tractors, dozers, rotary drills, augers, loaders, earth movers, power shovels, back hoes, cranes, derricks, paving machines, dump trucks, mixers, ditchers, trenchers, compactors, scrapers, jack hammers, pavement breakers, compressors, hammers, axes, mauls, pneumatic powered equipment, pile drivers, chain saws, log splitters, log chippers, powered hand tools, lawn tractors and mowers, leaf blowers, trimmers and/or any other equipment, tool or machinery that is substantially similar to the foregoing.
This section shall not apply to the use of snow blowers, snow plowing, or the use of any other tool or equipment used in the mitigating of an immediate health, safety, welfare related emergency, as determined by the City of Solon Police Department.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 2021-74, passed 4-19-2021)