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Effective 1110190 City ofCenterville Ord. #49 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF ANORA CITY OF CENTERVILLE ORDINANCE #49 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO NOISE, PROVIDING FOR THE.ELlMINATION AND I'REVENTION OF PROHIBITED NOISE, AND IMPosING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION. THE COUNeR. OF TIlE CITY OF CENTERVILLE DoES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. NOISES PROHIBITED. The City Council finds that within the City, certain loud, avoidable, unnatural and unnecessary noises, which under certain circumstances and conditions constitute a serious threat to the health, welfare, contentment and the feeling of well-being of our residents. Excessive noise degrades the environment of the City and the City has a substantial and, in some situations, compelling interest in controlling such noise. Subdivision 1. General Prohibition. No person shall make or cause to be made any distinctly and loudly audible, continuous, objectionable noise due to intermittence, frequency, beat, shrillness, or intensity that annoys, disturbs, injures, or enda"Bers the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety, or welfare of any person or precludes their enjoyment of property or affects their property's value. This general prohibition is not limited by the specific restriction of the following subdivisions. Subdivision 2. Eyhaust. No person shall discharge the exhaust or permit the discharge of the exhaust of any steam engine, stationary internal combustion engine, motor boat, motor vehicle, or snowmobile except through a muffier or other device that effectively prevents loud or explosive noises there from and complies with all state laws and regulations. Subdivision 3. Loadin2. Unloadin2. Unoackin2. No person shall create loud and excessive noise in loading, unloading, or unpacking any vehicle between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Subdivision 4. Radios. Phonolmlohs. Pa2in2 Svstems. Etc. No person shall use or operate or permit the use or operation of any radio receiving set, musical instrument, phonograph, paging system, machine, or other device for the production or reproduction of sound in a distinct and loudly audible manner. Operation of any such set, instrument, phonograph, machine, or other device between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in such a manner as to be plainly audible fifty (50) feet from outside the property lilie of the structure or building in which it is located, in the hallway or apartment adjacent, or at a distance of one hundred :tifty (150) feet if the source is located outside a structure or buildingsha11 be prlmefacie evidence of a violation of this section. These measurements and decibel readings will be taken per Section 3, Subd. 1 of this ordinance.