Chapter 8.28 NOISE
Section 8.28.130 Sound amplifying equipment.
The use of sound amplifying equipment is subject to the following:
A. The only sounds permitted are music,
human speech, or both;
B. Sound amplifying equipment may
be operated only between the hours of seven a.m. and
eight p.m. each day except Sundays and legal holidays. Sound amplifying equipment may not be
operated for commercial purposes on Sundays or legal holidays. Sound amplifying equipment
may be operated for noncommercial purposes on Sundays and legal holidays only between the
hours of ten a.m. and six p.m.
C. No sound emanating from sound amplifying
equipment may exceed fifteen dbA above the
ambient noise level at any property line.
D. Notwithstanding subsection C of
this section, sound amplifying equipment may not be
operated within two hundred feet of a church, school, hospital or city or county building.
E. In any event, the volume of sound
shall be so controlled that it is not unreasonably loud,
raucous, jarring, disturbing, or a nuisance to reasonable persons of normal sensitivity within the
area of audibility. (Prior code § 13A-11)