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(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
(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)
(a) No person, by himself or herself or by the operation of any instrument, device, agency or vehicle, shall make any unnecessary or unseemly noise within 150 feet of any portion of the grounds and premises on which is located a hospital or other institution reserved for the sick, aged or infirm, or within 150 feet of any school, court house, church or building in which religious services are held, during school hours, hours of public worship, or hours of holding court. The area within 150 feet of a hospital, school, court house or church shall be officially known as a
ZONE OF QUIET and the Director of Service shall place signs within such zones of quiet calling attention to the prohibition against unnecessary noises.
(1964 Code, § 510.08)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 1981-88, passed 8-3-1981)
(a) Any property use established in a zoning district, as defined and designated under the provisions of the Zoning Code, shall be so operated as to comply with the performance standards governing noise set forth hereinafter for the district in which such use shall be located.
(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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