Legal Documents of Dandridge

It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued any loud, unnecessary, or unusual noise or any noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, safety, or welfare of others within the limits of the town.

1. Enumeration of loud and unnecessary noises; enumeration not exclusive. The following acts, among others, are declared to be loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noises in violation of this section, but such enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive, namely:
   
   
   1. Radios, phonographs, etc. The using, operation, or permitting to be played, used, or operated, of any radio receiving set, phonograph, or any musical instrument in such a manner or with such volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of persons in any office, hospital, or in any dwelling, hotel, or other type of residence, or of any persons in the vicinity.
   2. Exhausts. The discharge into the open air of the exhaust of any steam engine, stationary internal combustion engine, motor vehicle, two-wheeled cycle, or motor boat engine except through a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises therefrom.
2. Exceptions. None of the terms or prohibitions contained in this section shall apply to or be enforced against:
   
   
   1. Any vehicle of the town while engaged upon necessary public business.
   2. Excavations or repairs of bridges, streets, or highways by or on behalf of the town, county, or the state, during the night time when the public welfare and convenience renders it impossible to perform such work during the day.
   3. The use of sound amplifier, loud speakers, or sound tracks only in connection with religious, civic, patriotic, charitable, political or school functions and lawful business purposes provided that the same is conducted in accordance with the requirements contained in § 11-304.
3. Injunction. As an additional remedy, the operation or maintenance of any device, instrument, vehicle, or machinery in violation of any provision hereof and which causes discomfort or annoyance to reasonable persons of normal sensitiveness or which endangers the comfort, repose, health, or peace of residents in the area shall be deemed, and is declared to be, a public nuisance and may be subject to abatement summarily by a restraining order or injunction issued by a court of competent jurisdiction. (1995 Code, § 11-302, as amended by Ord. #15/16-04, Sept. 2015, modified)