(a) Specific Prohibitions. In addition to the general prohibitions set out in subsection (a), and unless otherwise exempted by this chapter, the following specific acts, or the causing or permitting thereof, are hereby regulated as follows:
(1) Motor vehicles.
A. No person shall operate a motor vehicle which causes excessive noise levels, as a result of a defective or modified exhaust system, or as a result of an unnecessary rapid acceleration, revving or tire squealing.
B. No person shall use an engine decompression breaking system, or the other use of an engine transmission, or associated component parts to slow, stop, break or otherwise engage in the practice commonly known as "Jake Breaking".
C. No operator of a motor vehicle shall operate, or permit the operation of any sound system which can be heard outside the vehicle from fifty or more feet when the vehicle is being operated upon, or is parked upon or standing upon the public right of way or upon private property.
It is an affirmative defense to charge under this subsection that the operator was not otherwise prohibited by law from operating the sound system, and that any of the following apply:
1. The system was being operated to request medical or vehicular assistance or to warn of a hazardous road condition;
2. The vehicle was an emergency or public safety vehicle;
3. The vehicle was owned and operated by the City or a gas, electric, communications, refuse or water utility company;
4. The vehicle was being used in a parade, and the person or organization conducting the parade had obtained a parade permit from the appropriate City agency.
(2) Radios, televisions, electronic audio equipment, musical instruments or similar devices. No person shall operate, play or permit the operation or playing any radio, tape player, television, electronic audio equipment, musical instrument, sound amplifier or other mechanical or electronic sound-making device that produces, reproduces or amplifies sound in such a manner as to create a noise disturbance across a real property boundary.
(3) Animals. No person shall own, possess or harbor an animal or bird that howls, barks, meows, squawks or makes other sounds that:
A. Create a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary;
B. Are of frequent or continued duration for ten or more consecutive minutes; or
C. Are intermittent for a period of 30 or more minutes.
(Ord. 4269. Passed 6-24-08.)