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No person, whether or not that person is in actual possession of the noise source, shall create, continue or cause to be created or continued, or allow to be created or continued, any public disturbance noise.

(1) “Public disturbance noise” means a noise which originates from the real or personal property of any person, while the person is in possession or control of such property, and which noise unreasonably interferes with the peace, comfort and repose of a reasonable person of ordinary sensitivities, including owners or possessors of real property. Unless otherwise specified, the public disturbance noise provisions of ECMC 8.08.030 are applicable 24 hours a day.

(a) Any sound made by the use of a musical instrument, whistle, sound amplifier, juke box, radio, television, or other similar device which emanates from a building, structure, or property between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and is received within a residential district;

(b) Any sound made by the unamplified human voice which emanates from a building, structure, or property between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is received within a residential district;

(c) Frequent, repetitive, or continuous sounds made by any animal which emanates from a building, structure, or property and is received within a residential district;

(d) Any sound made by the discharge of exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine except through a muffler;

(e) Any sound made by the operation of any motorcycle, motorbike, off-road or all-terrain vehicle in the city on any property not a part of the street system of the city when such motorcycle, motorbike, off-road or all-terrain vehicle does not conform to the muffler standards required for operation on the public streets;

(f) Any sound made by a horn or other similar signaling device attached to a motor vehicle except when reasonably necessary to ensure safe operation as permitted in RCW 46.37.380;

(g) Any sound made by a loudspeaker or sound amplifier exterior to any building for commercial advertising or sales purposes or for attracting the attention of the public to any performance, show, or other event;

(h) Any sound which is audible at any school, other institution of learning, court, hospital, nursing, or convalescent facility, or other area where exceptional quiet is necessary; provided signs are displayed in adjacent or contiguous streets indicating that the area is a quiet zone;

(i) Any sound made by the construction, excavation, repair, demolition, destruction, or alteration of any building, property or upon any building site between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and is received within a residential district;

(j) Any sound made by operating or permitting the operation of any mechanically powered saw, drill, sander, grinder, lawn or garden tool, fan or blower, or similar device used in residential areas between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day so as to cause a noise disturbance across a residential boundary;

(k) Any sound made by speaker sound amplifier or motor vehicle audio system exterior to the passenger sitting compartment of a motor vehicle on a public street or highway (anywhere within the right-of-way thereof) of a commercial radio station broadcast, or music from an audio tape cassette, compact disc, or other recording medium;

(l) Any sound from a motor vehicle audio system such as tape players, radios, and compact disc players, operated at a volume and under conditions, so as to be audible greater than 50 feet from the vehicle itself;

(m) Any sound from portable audio equipment, such as a radio, tape player or compact disc player, which is operated at such a volume so as to be audible at a distance of 50 feet or more from the source of the sound. (Ord. 459 § 1, 2012; Ord. 375 § 1, 2006)