8.24.040 Prohibited acts.
A. Noise Pollution Prohibited. No person shall make, continue, or cause to be made or continued, any noise pollution.
B. Specific Prohibitions. The following acts, and the causing of the following acts, are declared to be in violation of this chapter:
1. Radios, Televisions, Musical Instruments, and Similar Devices. Using, operating, playing, or permitting the use, operation, or playing of any radio, television, speaker, drum, musical instrument, sound amplifier, personal sound system, vehicular sound system, or similar device which produces, reproduces, or amplifies sound:
a. Between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. the following day Monday through Saturday and nine a.m. on Sunday in such a manner as to create noise pollution across a real property boundary or to be plainly audible at a distance of fifty feet or more in any direction from the device or fifty feet or more from a real property boundary if on private property;
b. Between the hours of seven a.m. and ten p.m. Monday through Saturday and nine a.m. on Sunday in such a manner as to create noise pollution across a real property boundary or to be plainly audible at a distance of one hundred fifty feet or more in any direction from the device or one hundred fifty feet or more from a real property boundary if on private property;
c. In such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of fifty feet or more in any direction when operated in or on a vehicle on a public roadway or public space, or in a boat on public waters; or
d. In such a manner as to create noise pollution to any person, other than the operator of the device, when operated on a common carrier.
2. Loudspeakers/Public Address Systems.
a. Using or operating any loudspeaker, public address system or similar device: (i) between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. the following day Monday through Saturday and nine a.m. on Sunday in such a manner as to create noise pollution or to be plainly audible across a real property boundary within a residential use; or (ii) between the hours of seven a.m. and ten p.m. and nine a.m. on Sunday in such a manner as to be plainly audible fifty feet or more from a real property boundary within a residential use;
b. Using or operating any loudspeaker, public address system, or similar device: (i) between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. the following day Monday through Saturday and nine a.m. on Sunday on a public roadway or in a public space; or (ii) in such a manner as to create noise pollution across a real property boundary of a public roadway or public space or to be plainly audible at fifty feet or more from the device;
c. Using or operating any loudspeaker, public address system, or similar device in such a manner that the sound therefrom is plainly audible one hundred fifty feet or more from a real property boundary with a commercial or industrial use.
3. Street Sales. The ringing of bells, blowing of horns and bugles, crying of goods by auctioneers and others, and the making of other noises, for the purpose of business, amusement, or otherwise, and all performances and devices tending to the collection of persons on the streets or sidewalks of the City or the offering for sale or selling anything by shouting or outcry within any residential or commercial area of the City.
4. Animals and Birds. Owning, possessing, or harboring any animal or bird which for continued duration (for example, more than fifty times per day) howls, barks, squawks, or makes other sounds which create noise pollution or are plainly audible across a real property boundary of a residential use.
5. Powered Model Vehicles. Operating or permitting the operation of powered model vehicles in such a manner as to create noise pollution across a real property boundary of a residential use or in a public space between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m. Monday through Saturday and nine a.m. on Sunday the following day. Maximum sound levels in a public space during the permitted period of operation shall conform to those set forth for residential land use in Table 1 of Section 8.24.050 and shall be measured at a distance of fifty feet from any point on the path of the vehicle. Maximum sound levels for residential property during the permitted period of operation shall be governed by Table 1 of Section 8.24.050 .
6. Motorboats. Operating or permitting the operation of any motorboat in any lake, river, stream, or other waterway in such manner as to exceed a sound level of (a) eighty dBA at fifty feet; or (b) seventy dBA at any shoreline; or (c) eighty dBC at any shoreline.
7. Compression Brakes. No person operating a motor vehicle containing a compression brake system or systems shall apply such compression brake system or systems except when such a system or systems are used in an emergency to stop the vehicle.
8. Tampering. The following acts, or causing the following acts, are prohibited:
a. The removal or rendering inoperative by any person other than for purposes of maintenance, repair, or replacement, of any muffler, noise control device, or element of design or noise label;
b. The use of a product which has had a muffler, noise control device, or element of design or noise label removed or rendered inoperative. (Ord. 21-07 § 1, 2021)