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[Matador 10+ year member]

Davenport Gets New Noise Ordinance
October 1, 2003 -- Davenport, Iowa - The Davenport City Council has approved a new ordinance that could force car owners to remove overly- loud car sound systems from their vehicles. Under the new law, which was approved on September 17, 2003 and goes into effect within the next few weeks, citizens will be allowed to phone in complaints about sound systems that can be heard from at least 50 feet away to the city's legal department.

Complainants must include the make and color of the vehicle, the approximate time and place of the offense and the license plate number. That initial complaint within a one-year period will trigger the mailing of a form letter to the owner of the vehicle informing them that he complaint was made. It also will include a reminder about the city noise law.

The second and third violations will have to be noted by police officers.

The second violation within a year will result in a $75 fine and the third can result in a fine of up to $500 and an order from a district court magistrate to remove the sound system from a vehicle for up to one year. The new ordinance was changed from the original proposal to prevent it from being used as a weapon in personal feuds. Under the original proposal, the second and third complaints could have come from private citizens.

-AP

http://www.me-mag.com/t_news_pick.cfm?sid=2674

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[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

The beginning of the soon to be many towns introducing tougher laws and stiffer penalties for noise violations...

Good.

Guess some of the people in Davenport weren't responsible.

Hope it happens in more towns.

- Steve

 

[zxcshadow 10+ year member]

Oregon Law (since 1997)

A person commits the offense of causing unreasonable sound amplification from a vehicle if the person operates, or permits the operation of, any sound amplification system that is plainly audible outside of a vehicle from 50 or more feet when the vehicle is on a public highway or on premises open to the public, unless that system is being operated to request assistance or warn of a hazardous situation OR if the vehicle is a privately owned vehicle, operates at more than 1000 watts.

http://www.leg.state.or.us/97reg/measures/hb3100.dir/hb3165.int.html

 

[BDIDDY 10+ year member]

In clarksville its 25 ft. Yall are lucky.

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

good thing i live in cali //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

and in a hick town that cant afford to make new laws