Item 1: PH on Ordinance Concerning Noise Disturbance

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(Section 4.083 added by Ordinance No. 16229, enacted September 13, 1971; amended by Ordinance No. 17434, enacted July 28, 1975; Ordinance No. 19274, enacted August 13, 1984; Ordinance No. 19697, enacted June 25, 1990; Ordinance No. 19770, enacted April 22, 1991, effective May 22, 1991; Ordinance No. 19902, enacted February 17, 1993, effective March 19, 1993; and Ordinance No. 20301, enacted November 10, 2003, effective December 10, 2003.) 4.084 Noise Disturbance - Exemptions, Variances. (1) Exemptions. The following sounds are exempted from the provisions of sections 4.080, 4.081, and 4.083 of this code: (a) Sounds made by work necessary to restore property to a safe condition following a public calamity, or work required to protect persons or property from imminent exposure to danger. (b) Sounds made by warning devices to protect persons or property from imminent exposure to danger, provided however that burglar or fire alarms shall not operate continuously for more than fifteen minutes. (c) Sounds made by an emergency vehicle, as defined in ORS 801.260, when responding to or from an emergency or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law. (d) Sounds made by current employment of land and buildings for farm uses, i.e., for the purpose of obtaining a profit in money by raising, harvesting, and selling crops or by the feeding, breeding, management, and sale of livestock, poultry, fur-bearing animals or honeybees, or the produce thereof, or for dairying and the sale of dairy products or any other agricultural or horticultural operations or any combination thereof including the preparation and storage of the products raised for man's use and animal use and disposal by marketing or otherwise by a farmer on such farm. (e) Sounds made by activities by or at the request of the city in maintenance, construction, or repair of public improvements in public rights-of-way or easements. (f) Sounds produced pursuant to a specific variance granted by the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission, or by the city manager or hearings official under subsection (2) of this section. (g) Sounds caused by sources regulated as to sound production by federal law or sounds caused by sources the regulation of which is preempted by state law. (h) Sounds not electronically amplified, created by athletic and entertainment events other than motor vehicle racing events or fireworks displays. (i) Electronically amplified announcements at athletic events other than motor vehicle racing events.