Title 7 PUBLIC PEACE, SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 7.40 NOISES
7.40.010 Shouting and using mechanical devices for advertising prohibited.
7.40.020 Stationary engines.
7.40.030 Foundries, machine shops and factories.
7.40.040 Building operations at night.
7.40.010 Shouting and using mechanical devices for advertising prohibited.
No person shall make, or cause, permit or allow to be made,
upon a public street, or in such close proximity to a public street as to be
distinctly and loudly audible upon such public street, any noise of any kind by
crying, calling, or shouting or by means of any whistle, rattle, bell, gong,
clapper, hammer, drum, horn, hand organ, mechanically operated piano, radio,
radio loudspeaker, or other loudspeaker or amplifying device, or similar
mechanical device or wind instrument or musical instrument for the purpose of
advertising any goods, wares or merchandise, or of attracting attention or
inviting the patronage of any person to any business whatsoever, or for any
other purpose whatsoever. (Ord. 82 § 1, 1930)
7.40.020 Stationary engines.
No person shall blow or cause to be blown, within the
village, the steam whistle of any stationary steam plant as a signal for
commencing or suspending work, or for any other purpose, provided this section
shall not be construed as forbidding the use of steam whistles as alarm signals
in case of fire or collision, or other imminent danger, nor as forbidding the
necessary signals by the steam engines of the fire department of the village.
(Ord. 82 § 2, 1930)
7.40.030 Foundries, machine shops and factories.
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to locate,
build, construct or maintain a foundry, machine shop or factory wherein
pneumatic hammers or other apparatus, the use of which is attended with loud or
unusual noises, are used, within two hundred feet of any residence. (Ord. 82
§ 3, 1930)
7.40.040 Building operations at night.
It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to conduct
any building operations between the hours of ten in the evening and seven in the
morning, to operate or use any pile drivers, steam shovels, pneumatic hammers,
derricks, steam or electric hoists or other apparatus, the use of which is
attended with loud or unusual noise, in any block in which more than half of the
buildings on either side of the street are used exclusively for residence
purposes. (Ord. 83-1071 § 1, 1983: Ord. 82 § 4, 1930)
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