§ 34-31. Loud and raucous noise prohibited; defined.

It shall be unlawful for any person within the City to willfully make or continue, or cause to be made or continued, any loud and raucous noise, which term means any sound which, because of its volume level, duration and character, annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary sensibilities within the limits of the City. Such term includes the kinds of noise generated by the activities enumerated in section 34-32, except as provided in section 34-33. Such term shall be limited to loud and raucous noise heard upon the public streets, in any public park, school or public building or, the grounds thereof, while in use, in any church or hospital, or the grounds thereof, while in use, upon any parking lot open to members of the public as invitees or licensees or in any occupied residential unit, or the grounds thereof, which is not the source of the noise and from a location not less than 50 feet from the source of the noise, as measured in a straight line from the radio, loudspeaker, motor, horn or other noise source.

(Code 1991, § 88-1)

State law reference

Motor vehicle noise, F.S. § 403.415.

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.