4059I.
ORDINANCE NO. 4059
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING
CHAPTER 6.72 TO TITLE 6 OF THE ANAHEIM
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO AMPLIFIED SOUND.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That Chapter 6.72 be, and the same is hereby, added to
Title .6 of the Anaheim Municipal'Code to read as follows:
"CHAPTER 6.72
AMPLIFIED SOUND.
6.72.010 Purpose.
The City Council enacts.this legislation
for the sole purpose'of securing and promoting the
public health, comfort, safety:, and welfare .of its
citizenry. While- recognizing that certain uses of
sound amplifying equipment are protected by the consti-
tutional rights of freedom of speech and assembly, the
City Council, nevertheless, feels obligated to reason-
ably regulate.'the use of sound amplifying equipment in
order to protect the correlative constitutional rights
of the citizens of this community to -privacy and free-
dom from public nuisance of loud and raucous noise.
6.72..020. Regulation of Amplified Sound.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter
6.70 of this Code, it :shall be unlawful for any person
to use or operate., or cause to be used or operated,
within the City of Anaheim any sound amplifying equip-
ment in a fixed or movable position, or mounted upon
any vehicle, except when.used or operated in compliance
with the following provisions:
.01.0 In all residential -zones and within 20.0
feet thereof, no sound amplifying equipment .shall be
installed, operated or used for commercial purposes at
any time.
.020. The operation or use of sound amplifying
equipment for noncommercial purposes in all residential -
zones and within 200 feet thereof, except when used for
regularly scheduled operative functions by any school or
for the usual and customary purposes of any church, is
prohibited.between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00. a.m.
of the following day.
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.03.0 . In all other zones, except .such
portions thereof as may be'included within 200.
feet -of any residential zone, the operation or use
of sound amplifying equipment for commercial pur-
poses is prohibited between the. hours of 9:00 p.m.
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and 8:00 a.m. of the following day.
.040 In all other. zones, except .such por-
tions thereof as may be included within 200 feet -of
any residential zone, the operation or use of sound
amplifying equipment for noncommercial purposes is
prohibited between the hours of 1000. p.m. and 7:00
a.m. of the following day.
.050 The only sounds permitted shall be
either music, human speech, or both.
.060 Sound emanating from sound amplifying
equipment shall be limited in volume, tone and in-
tensity as follows:
.06.01 The sound shall not be audible at 'a
distance in excess of 20.0.feet from the sound equip-
ment.
.0602 In no event shall the sound be loud
and raucous or unreasonably jarring, disturbing, an-
noying or a nuisance to reasonable persons of normal
sensitiveness within the area of audibility.
.070 Except as permitted in Subsection .020
above, no sound amplifying equipment -shall'be opera-
ted -upon any property adjacent to. and within 200.
feet of any hospital -grounds, publicly owned or oper-
ated. stadium, convention center or auditorium, or
any school -or church building, while 1n use.
6.72.03.0 Definiti`ons.
.010 The word 'person' as used herein shall
include the singular and the plural and shall also
mean and include any person, firm, corporation, asso-
ciation, club, partnership., society or any other form
of association or organization.
.020 The words 'sound amplifying equipment'
as used herein shall mean any machine or device for
the amplification of the human voice, music or any
other sound. 'Sound amplifying equipment'. as used
herein shall not,. however., be construed as including
any of the following:
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.020.1 Automobile radios, tape players and
similar devices. when used and heard only by occu-
pants of the vehicle in which installed.
.0202 Radios, televisions, phonographs,
tape recorders and players, musical instrument
amplifiers and similar devices when used and heard
only by occupants of the premises in which the de-
vices are located.
.0203. Warning devices on authorized emer-
gency vehicles, or horns or other warning devices
on other vehicles when used.for traffic safety
purposes.
.0204 Equipment used by -any duly authorized
tenant or lessee as an integral part of any event
at Anaheim Stadium."
SECTION 2.. SEVERABILITY.
The City Council -of the City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this chap-
ter of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be
invalid, it .is the intent of the Council that -it-would have passed
all other portions of this chapter independent .of the elimination
herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid.
SECTION 3.
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of .this or-
dinance and shall cause the same to be printed once within fifteen
(15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper
of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said
City, and thirty (30) days from and after its -final passage, it
shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 9th day of October, 1979.
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OR OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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PR0 TEM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:'
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City -Clerk of'the'City of'Anaheim,-do hereby certify
that the foregoing Ordinance'No.'4059 was introduced -at a.regular meeting
of the'City Council of the City of'Anaheim,-held on'the'2nd day of'October;
1979, and that.the'same was duly -passed and adopted at a regular meeting
of said City -Council held. on the 9th-day.of'October, 19799 by.the following
vote of'the'members thereof: .'
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kaywood, Bay, Roth and Overholt
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Seymour
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the' Mayor Pro -Tem' of the City -.of' Anaheim signed
said Ordinance No. 4059 on�the 9th-day.of October; 1979.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto.set'my hand and affixed the official
seal of the City of Anaheim this 9th day of Octobeit;.1979.
CITY CICERK OF -THE CI 'OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LINDA D.-ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4059 and was published
once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 19th day of October, 1979.
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CITY CLERK