No person, other than personnel of law enforcement, governmental agencies or utilities services or permittees duly authorized, shall use or operate within the City a loudspeaker or sound amplifying equipment in a fixed or movable position or mounted upon any sound truck for the purposes of giving instructions, directions, talks, addresses, lectures or transmitting music to any persons or assemblages of persons in or upon any public street, alley, sidewalk, park or place, or other public property, except when installed, used or operated in compliance with the following provisions:
(a) Residential zones and within 500 feet thereof:
(1) No fixed or movable sound amplifying equipment shall be installed, operated or used for commercial purposes at any time except as provided in Section 745.08 of the Business Regulation Code.
(2) The operation or use of sound amplifying equipment for noncommercial purposes, except when used for regularly scheduled operative functions by any school or for the usual and customary purposes of any church, is prohibited between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day.
(b) In all other zones, except such portions thereof, as may be included within 500 feet of any residential zone:
(1) The operation or use of sound amplifying equipment for commercial purposes is prohibited between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day.
(2) The operation or use of sound amplifying equipment for noncommercial purposes is prohibited between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day.
(c) The only sounds permitted shall be either music, human speech or both.
(d) Sound emanating from sound amplifying equipment shall be limited in volume, tone and intensity so that the sound shall not be audible at a distance in excess of 200 feet from the sound equipment.
(e) Except as provided in subsection (b) above, no sound amplifying equipment shall be operated upon any property adjacent to and within 200 feet of any hospital grounds or any school or church building while in use.
(1952 Code § 17-15-116; Ord. 3-75)