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<br />TUESDAY
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<br />APRIL 13, 1982
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<br />Councilman West, to adopt the noise-regulating ordinance (and amendment) as set forth in
<br />Draft No.3, presented to Council at its March 23rd meeting. During the ensuing
<br />discussion of the motion and the proposed amending ordinance, members of Council expressed
<br />their awareness of citizens' concerns in this matter and the need to enact reasonable
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<br />regulations, as proposed in Draft No.3, which City Manager Edmonds stated would be
<br />administered with enlightened enforcement, and with Vice Mayor Cole initially expressing
<br />his preference that the proposed ordinance be continued for study and refinement, plus
<br />some querys as to the differences and/or import between and among the four classes of
<br />misdemeanors and the applications and penalties therefor, as set forth in Section 1-6
<br />of the City Code (as amended January 12, 1982). The motion to adopt Draft No.3 carried
<br />unanimously and the adopted ordinance follows:
<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, that Section
<br />11-27 of the Code of the City of Martinsville be, and is hereby, amended to read
<br />as follows:
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<br />A. It shall be illegal and shall constitute a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable
<br />by confinement in jail up to twelve months and/or a fine of up to $1,000.00,
<br />or both, to do any of the following:
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<br />(a)
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<br />To operate, install, have, maintain, or permit on the outside of
<br />any store, shop, business establishment, warehouse, or other
<br />commercial building in the city, any loudspeaker or other sound-
<br />producing or reproducing device capable of emitting music, noise,
<br />sounds, tones, or the human voice such that music, noise, sounds,
<br />tones, or human voices can be heard on any public sidewalk or public
<br />street, except for outside intercoms, paging speakers, bells or
<br />buzzers signaling the ringing of a telephone, fire, smoke, or
<br />burglar alarms, or a whistle, bell, or buzzer signaling the time to
<br />begin or stop work or school, which are only used intermittently
<br />for the transmission of the human voice for announcing, summonsing,
<br />or paging an individual person or for the signaling of the ringing
<br />of a telephone, the danger of a fire or a burglary, or the
<br />beginning or stopping of work or school.
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<br />(b)
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<br />To use, operate, or play in any residential district of the city,
<br />between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 7:00 A.M. following, any
<br />radio, television, record or tape player, phonograph, musical
<br />instrument, loudspeaker, sound amplifier, or other machine or
<br />device capable of producing or reproducing sound, which can be
<br />heard inside the confines of an individual dwelling unit, house
<br />or apartment of another person.
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<br />( c)
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<br />To operate, use, or permit the operation or use of power lawn mowers,
<br />chain saws, power hedge clippers, garden tractors or tillers, leaf
<br />mulchers or blowers, snowblowers, or like outdoor power equipment
<br />in any residential district in the city during the hours of 10:00
<br />P.M. and 7:00 A.M., following.
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