Sec. 22-49. - Specific activities prohibited.

The following actions are prohibited only when causing a noise disturbance as defined in this article: (1)

Hawkers and peddlers. No person shall create a noise disturbance by offering for sale or selling anything by shouting or outcry across a real property boundary. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the selling by outcry of merchandise, food and beverages at licensed sporting events, parades, fairs, circuses or other similar licensed public entertainment events.

(2)

Vehicle or motorboat repairs or testing. No person shall repair, rebuild, modify or test any motor vehicle, motorcycle or motorboat in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a real property boundary.

(3)

Horns, signaling devices, etc. The sounding of any horn or signaling device on any automobile, motorcycle, streetcar or other vehicle on any street or public place of the city, except as a danger warning.

(4)

Loudspeakers, amplifiers for advertising. The using, operating or permitting to be played, used or operated of any radio receiving device, musical instrument, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound amplifier, or other machine or device for the producing or reproducing of sound which is broadcast upon the public streets for the purpose of commercial advertising or attracting the attention of the public to any building or structure.

(5)

Yelling, shouting, etc. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, or singing on the public streets, particularly between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.

(6)

Exhausts. The discharge into the open air of the exhaust of any steam engine, stationary internal combustion engine, motor boat, or motor vehicle, except through a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises therefrom.

(7)

Defect in vehicle or load. The use of any automobile, motorcycle or vehicle so out of repair, so loaded or in such condition as to create a noise disturbance.

(8)

Loading, unloading, opening boxes. The creation of a noise disturbance in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle or the opening and destruction of bales, boxes, crates and containers.

(9)

Schools, courts, churches, hospitals. The creation of any noise disturbance on any street adjacent to any school, institution of learning, church or court while the school, institution of learning, church or court are in use, or adjacent to any hospital, provided that conspicuous signs are displayed in such streets indicating that the same is a school, hospital or court street.

(10)

Disorderly house. No person shall do either of the following:

a.

Keep a disorderly house whereby the peace, comfort, or decency of a neighbor is habitually disturbed; or

b.

Being the owner of and in control of the premises to permit then to be so used;

c.

For purposes of this section a disorderly house is defined as a residence or dwelling in which two noise disturbances resulting in convictions in the municipal court have occurred within a period of 12 months or less;

d.

The owner of any such residence or dwelling may assert as a defense reasonable efforts to take action against the perpetrators of the violation of this article, including the initiation of eviction proceedings pursuant to Rhode Island General Laws.

(Code 1986, § 9-18; Ch. 849, § 1, 7-7-2004)