Chapter 5.50
UNNECESSARY NOISE
Sections:
5.50.010 Regulations.
No person shall make, assist in making, continue, or cause to be made any loud, disturbing, or unnecessary noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, safety, or peace of others. [Ord. 418 § 1, 2016.]
5.50.020 Inclusions.
Loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noises in violation of this section include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Keeping an animal that, by loud and frequent continued noise, disturbs the comfort and repose of a person in the vicinity.
(2) Using an engine, thing or device that is so loaded, out of repair or operated in such a manner as to create a loud or unnecessary grating, grinding, rattling or other noise.
(3) Using a mechanical device operated by compressed air, steam or otherwise, unless the noise created by it is effectively muffled.
(4) Construction, excavation, demolition, alteration or repair of a building between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., except by special permit granted by the city.
(5) Using or operating an automatic or electric piano, phonograph, loudspeaker or sound-amplifying device so loudly that it disturbs persons in its vicinity, or in a manner that makes it a public nuisance. However, on application to the city council, permits may be granted to broadcast music, news, speeches or general entertainment. [Ord. 418 § 2, 2016.]
5.50.030 Enforcement.
The following individuals shall enforce this chapter: The city administrator or his/her designee or Linn County sheriff’s office personnel will have the primary responsibility for the enforcement of the noise regulations contained in this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the city administrator or his/her designee or Linn County sheriff’s office personnel from obtaining voluntary compliance by way of warning, notice or education. [Ord. 418 § 3, 2016.]
5.50.040 Penalties.
(1) A person who violates a provision of this chapter is guilty of an infraction which is punishable by a fine not to exceed $500.00.
(2) Each occurrence of a violation, or, in the case of continuous violations, each day a violation occurs or continues, constitutes a new separate offense and may be punished separately. [Ord. 418 § 4, 2016.]