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PART TWO - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART FOUR - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 606: GENERAL PROVISIONS; ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 612: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
CHAPTER 618: ANIMALS
CHAPTER 624: DRUGS
CHAPTER 630: GAMBLING
CHAPTER 634: NOISE CONTROL
CHAPTER 636: OFFENSES RELATING TO PERSONS
CHAPTER 642: OFFENSES RELATING TO PROPERTY
CHAPTER 648: PEACE DISTURBANCES
CHAPTER 660: SAFETY, SANITATION AND HEALTH
CHAPTER 666: SEX RELATED OFFENSES
CHAPTER 672: WEAPONS AND EXPLOSIVES
CHAPTER 698: PENALTIES AND SENTENCING
PART EIGHT - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART TEN - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART TWELVE - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FOURTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
PART SIXTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
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§ 634.07 BUILDING OR PROPERTY USE RESTRICTIONS.
   (a)   No person owning or in possession or control of any building or premises shall use the same, permit the use of the same or rent the same to be used for any business, employment or residential use, or for any purpose of pleasure or recreation, if such use shall, by its boisterous nature, substantially raise the ambient noise level of the neighborhood in which such building or premises is situated, or would be dangerous or detrimental to health.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
§ 634.08 RESTRICTED USE OF POWER EQUIPMENT, TOOLS AND MACHINERY IN NON-RESIDENTIALLY ZONED AREAS AND IN COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WITHIN RESIDENTIALLY ZONED AREAS.
   (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)
§ 634.09 MOTOR VEHICLE LIMITS.
   (a)   No person shall operate any motor of a motor vehicle of a weight in excess of four tons (8,000 pounds) for a consecutive period longer than two minutes which operation shall raise the noise level above the ambient noise level of the neighborhood by more than six decibels, between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. of the following day or on Sundays or holidays. This section shall not apply to buses operated for the transportation of passengers while standing in established bus turnarounds, bus terminals, bus parking lots and bus storage yards.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
§ 634.10 RESTRICTED USE OF POWER EQUIPMENT, CONSTRUCTION TOOLS AND MACHINERY IN RESIDENTIALLY ZONED AREA.
   (a)   Except as otherwise required under § 634.08, no person shall operate or utilize power equipment, construction tools or machinery and/or perform any construction related activity on any residentially zoned property between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
      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)
§ 634.11 PERMITTING NOISE POLLUTION.
   (a)   In addition to the prohibitions contained in §§ 634.02 through 634.10, no person owning, leasing or controlling the operation of any source or sources of noise, including an animal or animals, shall willfully, negligently or through failure to take necessary precautions, permit the establishment or continuation of a condition of noise pollution.
(1964 Code, § 510.02)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
§ 634.12 NOISE IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS OR AFFECTING RESIDENTIAL OR INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY.
   (a)   No person shall create or cause to be emitted from his or her person or from any stationary noise source, any noise which causes or results in a noise level equal to or exceeding 50 dBA measured at any lot line of any lot located in any residential zoning district or in residential or institutional use elsewhere.
(1964 Code, § 510.03)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
§ 634.13 NOISE IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS.
   (a)   No person shall create or cause to be emitted from his or her person or from any stationary noise source, any noise which causes or results in a noise level equal to or exceeding 60 dBA measured at any lot line of any lot located in any commercial or industrial zoning district other than a lot in a residential or institutional use.
(1964 Code, § 510.04)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
§ 634.14 NOISE FROM MOBILE NOISE SOURCES.
   (a)   No person shall create or cause to be emitted from any mobile noise source, other than his or her person, any noise which causes or results in a maximum noise level equal to or exceeding 85 dBA at a distance equal to or greater than 50 feet from the closest point of the source, except for trucks exceeding 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, for which the maximum allowable noise level shall be 90 dBA at a distance equal to or greater than 50 feet from the closest point of the source.
   (b)   For other measurement distances, the following table shall apply:
 
Measurement distance in feet
50
40
30
20
Maximum permissible noise level in dBA
85
87
90
93
 
   (c)   For trucks exceeding 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, permissible noise levels in the preceding table shall be increased by five dBA.
(1964 Code, § 510.05)
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
§ 634.15 NOISE IN PLACES USED FOR ENTERTAINMENT.
   (a)   No person or persons owning, leasing or controlling the operation of any place used for entertainment shall willfully, negligently or through failure to take necessary precautions, permit the imposition or continuation of a sound pressure (noise) level exceeding 85 dBA on any member of the audience by said person or by any person engaged or employed by said person.
(1964 Code, § 510.07)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
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