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ORDINANCE N0. 827
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LYNWOOD AMENDING THE LYNWOOD CITY CODE TO ADD A
NEW CHAPTER THERETO NUMBERED CHAPTER 26A AND
ENTITLED: "REGULATION OF NOISE EMANATING FROM
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND THE HUMAN VOICE IN PUBLIC
PLACES, OTHER THAN FROM SOUND AMPLIFYING DEVICES."
Be it ordained:
Section 1. There is added to the Lynwood City Code a new
Chapter numbered 26A and entitled: "Regulation of Noise Emanating
from Musical Instruments And the Human Voice in Public Places, Other
Than from Sound Amplifying Devices."
Section 2. As the first section of Chapter 26A, Section
26.25 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
"Section 26.25. Regulation of sound emanting from musical
nstruments and the human voice. Any person.or group of person
playing, or causing to be played musical instruments or singing, or
causing songs to be sung in any public place, or where one or more
persons are gathered in a place located in any "C" Zone as defined
by City Ordinance No. 5~0 and are playing or causing to be played
musical instruments or singing or causing to be sung songs in any
of said "C" Zones shall be subject to the following regulations:
"(a) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech.
"(b) The volume of the sound shall be so controlled that
it is inaudible from any point outside the place from which the sound
emanates between the hours of 2:00 a<m. and 6:00 aom.
"(c) At all hours of the day or night except those
designated in (~b) hereof the volume of sound shall be so controlled
that it cannot be heard by the human ear free from physical impairment
of a person within a dwelling within 50 feet from the place where the
sound emanates, and so that the volume is not unreasonably loud,
raucous, jarring, disturbing or a nuisance to persons within the
area of audibility."
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Section 2. The City Council hereby declares that it
would have passed this ordinance sentence by sentence, paragraph
by paragraph, and section by section, and does hereby declare that
the provisions of this ordinance are severable, and if, for any
reason, any sentence, paragraph, or section of this ordinance
shall be held invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining parts of this ordinance.
Section 3• The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed
to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same
to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published, and circulated in the City of
Lynwood.
First read at the regular meeting of the City Council
1967
of said city held on the 21st day of March ~q~~, and
finally adopted and ordered published at the regular meeting of
196
said Council held on the qth day of April , ~~~~, by the
following vote:
Ayes: COUNCILMEN Green Siok~s, Smith, Stp pAnc
Noes: COUNCILMEN None
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said
city, do hereby certify that the above is a true and
correct copy of Ordinance No. 827 adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lynwood, and that same was passed
on the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this hfh day of Anr;l , 19~_.
TY CLERK, CITY OF LYN OOD