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<br />II. Short-Form Noise Control Ordinance <br /> <br />The City Council of <br /> <br />ordains: <br /> <br />Section 1. <br /> <br />Noises Prohibited. <br /> <br />Subdivision 1. General prohibition. No person <br /> <br />shall make or cause to be made any distinctly and <br /> <br />loudly audible noise that unreasonably annoys, <br /> <br />disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, <br /> <br />health, peace, safety, or welfare of any person or <br /> <br />precludes their enjoyment of property or affects <br /> <br />their property's value. This general prohibition is <br /> <br />not limited by the specific restrictions of the <br /> <br />following subdivisions. <br /> <br />Subd. 2. Horns, audible signaling devices, <br /> <br />etc. No person shall sound any audible signaling <br /> <br />device on any vehicle except as a warning of <br /> <br />danger, as required by Minn. Stat. 169.68. <br /> <br />Comment: In order to further restrict the use of <br />these certain devices, danger can be more <br />fully defined, formal permits for the use of <br />these devices can be required, or <br />operational curfews can be established by <br />the city. Furthermore, the city or citiesmay <br />wish to extend this provision to stationary <br /> <br />sources which would include noon <br />whistles, church bells, etc. <br /> <br />Subd. 3. Exhaust. No person shall discharge <br /> <br />the exhaust or permit the discharge of the exhaust <br /> <br />of any steam engme, stationary internal <br /> <br />combustion engine, motor boat, motor vehicle, or <br /> <br />snowmobile except through a muffler or other <br /> <br />device that effectively prevents loud or explosive <br /> <br />noises therefrom and complies with all applicable <br /> <br />state laws and regulations. <br /> <br />Comment: Motor vehicle mufflers are <br />prescribed by Minn. Stat. 169.69. Water <br />craft mufflers are prescribed by Minn. Stat. <br />86B.321. Snowmobile mufflers. are <br />required under Minn. Stat. 84.871 and <br />Minn. Rules 6100.5700 subpart 5. If <br />snowmobile operation within the city is <br />prohibited, the city may wish to omit the <br />reference to snowmobiles in this <br />subdivision. <br /> <br />IIII <br /> <br />Subd. 4. Defective vehicles or loads. No <br /> <br />person shall use any vehicle so out of repair or so <br /> <br />loaded as to create loud and unnecessary grating, <br /> <br />grinding, rattling, or other noise. <br /> <br />15 <br />