Item 5: Ordinance Concerning Noise Disturbances

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DRAFT 12/13/06 effective date of this ordinance] so as to create any noise which would cause the maximum noise level to exceed 60 dBA at any point on the property line of the affected residential property. (g) Commercial and industrial noise. Operating any equipment and conducting activities so as to create any noise which would cause the maximum noise level to exceed a one-hour equivalent sound pressure level of 60 dBA at any point on the property line of an affected residential property zoned R-1, R-2, R-3 or R-4. (h) Steam whistles, sirens, and other aural warning devices. Operating or permitting the operation of a steam whistle, siren, or other aural warning device except where necessary to provide a warning of fire or danger. (i) Other. Any sound source exceeding the standards set out in section 9.2530(20) of this code and not otherwise exempt therefrom. 6.755 Environmental Noise Disturbance – Exemptions, Variances. (1) Exemptions. The following sounds are exempted from the provisions of section 6.075 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 produced by work performed by the city, county or state, and persons under contract with them for repairs or maintenance of roads, water wells, water service lines, trees and landscape, as well as street sweeping, garbage removal, and similar activities. (f) Sounds produced pursuant to a specific variance granted by the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission, or by the city Ordinance - 6