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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 9 “HEALTH AND SAFETY” OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FOLEY
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FOLEY AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 9 of the Code of the City of Foley is hereby amended by repealing the current Article I in its entirety and replacing it with the following sections:
Chapter 9, Article I - Noise, In General
Section 9-1. Noise, in general.
(a) Intent. It is the intent of the city to endeavor to provide citizens an environment free from such excess sounds or noise as may jeopardize their health, welfare and safety, or degrade the quality of life.
(b) General Prohibition. It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued any excessive, unnecessary or unusually loud noise or any noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others, within the corporate limits of the city.
Section 9-2. Definitions.
(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Construction activities” shall mean any and all activity incidental to the construction, erection, demolition, assembling, altering, installing or equipping of buildings, structures, roads or appurtenances thereto, including land clearing, grading, excavating and filling.
(2) “Construction equipment” shall mean construction activity utilizing and equipment or devices, such as but not limited to, pile drivers, power shovels, derricks, hoist tractors, rollers, concrete hauling motor vehicles, pavement breakers, bulldozers, crawler-tractors, rotatory drills and augers, cranes, ditchers, trenchers, scrapers, wagons, pumps, compressors, pneumatic power equipment, or other mechanical apparatus operated by fuel or electric power in the construction, repair or demolition of any building, structure, land, street, alley, waterway, or appurtenance thereto.
(3) “Continuous noise” shall mean the equivalent continuous A-frequency weighted sound...
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