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, - Effective 1/10190 City ofCenterville Ord. #49 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF ANOKA CITY OF CENTERVILLE ORDINANCE #49 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO NOISE, PROVIDING FOR THE ELIMINATION AND PREVENTION OF PROHIBITED NOISE, AND IMPOSING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTERVILLE DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. NOISES PROHIBITED. The City Council fin~ 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 audible, continuous, objectionable noise due to intermittence, frequency, beat, shrillness, or intensity that annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety, or welfare of any person or precludes their enjoyment of property. This general prohibition is not limited by the specific restriction of the following subdivisions. Subdivision 2. Radios. Phonol!raphs. Paeine: Systems. 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 violation of the noise standards'set forth in Section 3, Subdivision 1. Subdivision 3. Participation in Noisv Parties or Gatherine:. No person shall participate in any party or other gathering of people in violation of Section 1, subdivision 1. When a police officer determines that a gathering is creating such a violation, the