[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of North
Hills 12-22-1982 by L.L. No. 24-1982 (Ch. 133 of the 1982 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
It is found and declared that:
A.
The making, creating or maintaining of noises which are
loud, intermittent, prolonged, unusual or unnatural in their time, place or
use adversely affects and is detrimental to the public health, comfort, convenience,
safety, welfare and constitutes a disturbance to the peace and repose of the
residents of the Village.
B.
The necessity in the public interest for the provisions
and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted is declared a matter of
legislative determination and public policy, and it is further declared that
the provisions and prohibitions hereinafter contained and enacted are in pursuance
of and for the purpose of securing and promoting the public health, comfort,
safety, welfare and peace and quiet of the Village and its inhabitants.
No person shall make or cause to be made or continued, nor shall any
owner, lessee or occupant of any land in the Village permit to be made or
continued on his premises, any loud, unnecessary, unusual or annoying, intermittent
or prolonged noise or any noise which either annoys, destroys, injures or
endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others within the
Village.
The following acts, without limiting the provisions of § 156-2 hereof, are expressly declared to be noises in violation of this chapter:
A.
Horns, signaling devices, etc. The sounding of any horns
or signaling devices on any automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle except
as a danger signal or warning signal; the creation by means of any such signaling
device of any unreasonable or harsh sound; and the sounding of any such device
for an unnecessary or intermittent or unreasonable length of time.
B.
Loudspeakers, amplifiers for advertising or broadcasting.
The using, operating or permitting to be played, used or operated of any radio
or television set, musical instrument, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound amplifier
or other machines or devices for the producing or reproducing of sound which
is cast upon private property from the public streets or other public places
for the purpose of advertising or broadcasting, unless a permit therefor shall
have been issued by the Board of Trustees.
C.
Unnecessary amplification. The using, operating or permitting
to be used or operated of any radio, television set, phonograph, loudspeaker,
sound amplifier or other machines or devices for the producing or reproducing
of sound at a volume level sufficient to cause the sound produced or reproduced
to be audible at a point 10 feet beyond the lot line of the property on which
the sound is produced or reproduced.
D.
Animals. The keeping of any animals which, by causing
frequent or long-continued noise, shall disturb the comfort or repose of any
person or persons in the vicinity.
E.
Exhausts. The discharge into the open air of the exhaust
of any internal-combustion engine, except through a muffler or other device
which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises emanating therefrom.
F.
Noise-making devices.
(1)
The using, operating or discharging, or causing to be
used, operated or discharged, including the installation, of any noise-making
device of any design or manufacture which in its use, or if used, will disturb
or tend to disturb the peace, comfort, repose, health or safety of another,
or scare, frighten or disturb a domestic animal of another or wildlife.
(2)
The using, operating or discharging, or causing to be
used, operated or discharged, of any noise-making device of any design or
manufacture, with the intent to endanger or disturb the peace, comfort or
repose, health or safety of another or to scare or frighten or disturb a domestic
animal of another or wildlife.
G.
Construction and operation of machinery. The construction,
demolition, alteration or repair of any building (except interior alterations
or repairs to a building which is entirely enclosed) and the operation of
tractors, earth-moving machines, cement mixers, cranes and other similar construction
machinery on Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays and between the hours of 5:00
p.m. and 8:00 a.m., prevailing time, on Mondays through Fridays, inclusive,
except in cases of urgent emergency in the interest of health and safety,
and then only when a permit shall be issued by the Building Inspector for
the period of such emergency.
