27-Amend Article V Chapter 21-Noise Ordinance

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"Operating or permitting to be operated any power equipment in residential zones outdoors between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day (or 9:00 a.m. on Sundays), or which unreasonably disturbs or interferes with the peace, comfort, and repose of neighboring persons of ordinary sensibilities. "The intentional sounding or permitting the sounding outdoors of any fire, burglar, or civil defense siren, alarm, whistle, or similar stationary emergency signaling device for more than five minutes during any consecutive 60- minute period or so as to violate the sound levels as listed above except for those exemptions outlined herein. "The blowing of any steam whistle attached to any stationary boiler with an unreasonable frequency and at an unreasonable volume, except to give notice of the time to begin or stop work or as a warning of danger. "The discharge into the open air of the exhaust of any stationary steam engine, stationary internal combustion engine or motor boat engine, except through a muffler or other device which will effectively and efficiently prevent unreasonably loud noises. "The discharge into the open air of the exhaust from any motor vehicle except through a muffler, or other device, which will effectively and efficiently prevent unreasonably loud noises. "The use of any mechanical device operated by compressed air, unless the noise to be created thereby has been effectively muffled and reduced. "The erection, including excavation, demolition, alteration, or repair of any building in or adjacent to a residential area other than between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. (9:00 a.m. on Sundays), except in the case of urgent necessity in the interest of public safety. "The creation of unreasonably loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise on any street adjacent to any school or other institute of learning, place of religious worship, or court which is in session, or adjacent to any hospital or nursing home. "The shouting and crying of peddlers, hawkers, and vendors at a level that violates the sound levels as listed above or which unreasonably "disturbs or interferes with the peace, comfort, and repose of neighboring persons of ordinary sensibilities. "The use of any drum, or other instrument, or sound amplifying equipment for the purpose of attracting attention, by the creation of noise, to any performance, show, sale or display of merchandise or to attract customers to any place of business or transmitting music to any person or persons or assemblages of persons in such a manner as to be offensive to the ordinary sensibilities of inhabitants of the city and as to interfere with the public peace and comfort or