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Noise Ordinance
This section is enacted to protect, preserve, and promote the health, safety, welfare, peace, and quiet of the citizens of the City of Prineville through the reduction, control, and prevention of loud and raucous noise, or any noise which unreasonably disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety; or causes public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to reasonable persons of ordinary sensitivity. Nothing in this section shall limit the city or state in enforcing the regulations of Oregon Administrative Rule 340, Division 35 – Noise Control Regulations.
Loud and raucous noise degrades the environment of the city to a degree that:
(a) Is harmful to the health, welfare, and safety of its inhabitants and visitors;
(b) Interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property;
(c) Interferes with the well-being, tranquility, and privacy of the home; and
(d) Both causes and aggravates health problems.
(F) Noises prohibited.
The following acts are declared to be per se violations of this section. This enumeration does not constitute an exclusive list:
(1) Unreasonable noises. The unreasonable making of, or knowingly permitting to be made, any unreasonably loud, unnecessary, boisterous or unusual noise, disturbance, commotion or vibration. The ordinary and usual sounds, noises, commotion or vibration incidental to the operation of any residential, commercial or public property when conducted in accordance with the usual standards of practice and in a manner which will not unreasonably disturb the peace and comfort of adjacent residences or which will not detrimentally affect the operators of adjacent places of business are exempted from this provision.
(2) Vehicle horns, nonemergency signaling devices, and similar devices. The unreasonable and/or unnecessary sounding of any horn, nonemergency signaling device, or other similar device.
(3) Radios, televisions, stereos, loudspeakers, musical instruments and similar personal sound making devices. The use or operation of a radio, television, stereo, musical instrument, or similar device that produces or reproduces sound in a manner that is plainly audible to any person other than the player(s) or operator(s) of the device, and those who are voluntarily listening to the sound, and which unreasonably disturbs the peace, quiet, and comfort of neighbors in residential or noise sensitive areas.
(4) Yelling, shouting, and similar activities. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, or singing in residential or noise sensitive areas or in public places at any time or place so as to unreasonably disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of reasonable persons of ordinary sensitivities.
(5) Animals and birds. Unreasonably loud and raucous noise emitted by an animal or bird for which a person is responsible. A person is responsible for an animal if the person owns, controls or otherwise cares for the animal or bird.
(6) Loading or unloading merchandise, materials, equipment. The creation of unreasonably loud, raucous, and excessive noise in connection with the loading or unloading of any vehicle at a place of business or residence.
(7) Construction or repair of buildings, excavation of streets and highways. All outdoor construction shall be conducted in compliance with the hours listed in § 113.02, Hours set, unless exempted under subsection (G) of this section.
(8) Power tools and similar devices. The operation of power tools or similar devices in residential or noise sensitive areas which creates unreasonably loud and raucous noise or which creates a noise that would be reasonable except for the time of day/night in which the noise takes place.
(9) Commercial establishments adjacent to residential property. Unreasonably loud and raucous noise from the premises of any commercial establishment, including any outdoor area which is part of or under the control of the establishment.
(10) Idling of commercial motor vehicles. In accordance with Oregon House Bill 2081, no commercial motor vehicle shall be allowed to idle for more than five minutes in any continuous 60-minute period, except as authorized as an exception under House Bill 2081.
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