Chapter 15 OFFENSES--MISCELLANEOUS*
Sec. 15-21.2. General regulations--Noise prohibitions.
(a) Except as provided for herein, no person shall create or permit
noise levels that exceed those specified in Table l; such noise levels are the
maximum levels permitted by state law.
Table 1. Maximum Allowable Noise Levels (dBA) for
Receiving Zoning Districts
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Day/Night
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Industrial
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Commercial
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Residential
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Day
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75
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67
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65
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Night
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75
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62
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55
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(b) A person may not cause or permit noise levels emanating from
construction or demolition site activities which exceed:
(1) Ninety (90) dBA
during daytime hours;
(2) The levels specified in Table 1 during nighttime
hours.
(c) It is unlawful for any person or persons to play, use, operate or
permit to be played, used or operated, any radio, tape recorder, cassette player
or other machine or device for reproducing sound, if the sound generated is
audible at a distance of fifty (50) feet from the device producing the sound and
if the device is located in or on either of the following:
(1) Any public
property, including any public street, highway, building, sidewalk, park,
parking lot or thoroughfare; or
(2) Any motor vehicle on a public street,
highway or public space.
(d) It is unlawful for any person managing,
employed at, operating or occupying any location licensed to serve alcoholic
beverages to use of any portion of the owned or leased property, including any
common areas appurtenant to a leasehold, of such location for the operation or
amplification of sound produced by a radio, tape player, phonograph, disc
player, computer, speaker or other mechanical sound-making device or by an
instrument, including an amplified, acoustic or percussive instrument, so that
the sound of such device is plainly audible on a residential property and
audible at a distance of one hundred (100) feet from the device producing the
sound.
(e) Possession by a person or persons of any of the machines or
devices enumerated in subsection (c) and/or (d) shall be prima facie evidence
that person operates, or those persons operate, the machine or device. (Ord. No.
G-02-9, § 1, 6-6-02)
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