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Item
Title: Amendments to Noise Ordinance
Specific
Action Requested:
That the Board
of Commissioners adopt the amendments as attached.
Item
Summary:
The Public Safety Committee has met to examine
the need for amendments to the Noise Ordinance to address the problem of
excessively loud noise from automobile and residential sound systems. The
Committee also reviewed the standard necessary to prove a violation of the
ordinance. The attached proposed amendments to the existing ordinance 1)
require that amplified sounds not be at such a level as to be heard outside of
the premises in which they are being created; 2) make it unlawful to play any
audio system on public rights of way or public property at such volume as to
disturb others; 3) require that amplified sounds not be at such a level as to
be heard outside of an automobile in which they are being created; and 4)
provide that violations of the ordinance may be established by the complaint of
two persons residing in different homes, or of a law enforcement officer. The
current ordinance requires the complaint of two such witnesses and a law
enforcement officer.
Attached is the current ordinance, with previous
amendments, and the proposed ordinance changes.
Attachments: