§ 511-2. Unnecessary Noise in Operation of Vehicles.

No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any street or highway so as to create loud or excessive noise. Any person operating a vehicle on a street or highway which emits or creates sound or noise in excess of 95 decibels as measured on the A scale of a General Radio Company No. 1551-A sound level meter, or equivalent, stationed at a distance of not less than 20 feet to the right of the vehicle as the vehicle passes the sound level meter, shall, prima facie, be guilty of producing loud or excessive noise. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the blowing of horns when necessary to prevent an accident or the use of sirens or other similar devices on authorized emergency vehicles.

Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than $12 for each offense and not more than $25 for the first offense and for a second or subsequent conviction within one year thereafter shall be fined not more than $100.

The minimum fine may be reduced or waived by a finding of the court that such reduction or waiver is required by the interest of justice.

(C.O. 511-2; a. Ord. No. 406-1958, eff. Dec. 13, 1958; reordained as C.M.C. 511-2 and 512-9, eff. Jan. 1, 1972; C.M.C. 512-9; renumbered to C.M.C. 511-2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; and part of C.M.C. 512-23; ordained by Ord. No. 221-1976, eff. July 1, 1976; a. Ord. No. 320-1970, eff. Aug. 7, 1976; a. Ord. No. 398-1976, eff. Sept. 1, 1976 included in C.M.C. 511-2, eff. Sept. 1, 1979)