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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0814ORDINANCE N0. 814 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYWNOOD AMENDING SECTION 26.1 OF THE LYNWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD TO DEFINITIONS UNDER CHAPTER 26 OF SAID CODE "SOUND-AMPLIFICATION DEVICES," OF "COMMERCIAL" AND "NON-COMMERCIAL" PURPOSES, AND "ADVERTISING PURPOSES," AMENDING SECTION 26.6, 26.11, 26.14, 26.15 and 26.18 TO ELIMINATE STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT OF THE `P RAVEL OF SOUND FOUND TO BE UNSCIENTIFIC AND UNSOUND AND TO SET UP A MORE SCIENTIFIC AND SOUND MEASUREMENT THEREOF, AND TO SET UP SEPARATE SETS OF REGULATIONS FOR AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT USED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES AND THAT USED FOR NON- ADVERTISING PURPOSES." Be: it ordained: Section 1. There is hereby added to "Definitions" in Section 26.1 the following: "'Commercial purpose' shall mean the use of sound-amplifica- tion in commerce for the production of a profit in the City of Lynwood. "'Non-commercial purpose' shall mean the use of sound- amplification equipment for all other purposes in the City of Lynwood. "'Advertising purpose' shall mean the use of sound amplifica- tion equipment for a commercial purpose as herein defined, coupled with a form of public announcement intended to aid directly or indirectly in the sale of a commodity or service, excluding a form of announcement intended only for the officers ,. members, owners, agents or employees of a corporation,'- partnership or individually owned firm or business." Section 2. Section 26.6 is amended to read as follows: "LICENSE -- REQUIRED. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck in the city for commercial purposes with sound-amplifying equipment in operation unless a license has been ..obtained from the license collector. The fee;:for such license shall -1- be as prescribed in Chapter 20." Section 3> Section 26.11 is amended to read as follows: "REGISTRATION REQUIRED. No person shall use, operate or employ or cause to be used, operated or employed any system of electrical hookup or connection, excluding a sound truck, and a juke box, and including but not limited to any public address system, and loud-speaker system with its sound-amplifying system, whether the source thereof is from human voice, recording, or electrical tran- scription or musical tone, in any part of the city before filing a registration statement with the Chief of Police, in writingo The registration statement shall be filed in duplicate and shall state the following: (a) The name and address of applicant. (b) The address cf the place of business of the applicant. (r.) The name and address of the person, organization, firm or corporation who is the owner cf the equipment described in this section. (d) The name and address of the person having direct charge of the equipment described in this section. (e) The names and addresses of all persons who will use or operate the equipment described in this section, except customers of coin operated equipment. (f) The purpose for which the equipment described in this section will be used. (g) A statement of the address or addresses in the city where the equipment described in this section will be used. (h) The proposed hours of operation of the equipment described in this section. (i) The number of days of proposed operation of the equip- ment described in this section. (j) A general description of the sound-amplifying equipment which is to be used. (k) The approximate maximum distance for which sound will be thrown from the equipment described in this sect,icn." -2- Section 4. Section 26.14 of the Lynwood City Code is amended to read as follows: "REGULATIONS AS TO USE GENERALLY. Noncommercial use of equipment described in section 26.11 in the city shall be subject to the following regulations: (a) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech. (b) Operations shall not be permitted between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and -6:00 a.m. (c) Sound shall not be issued within one hundred yards of hospitals, schools or churches. (d) The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent or slanderous. (e) 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." Section 5. Section 26.15 of the Lynwood City Code is amended to read as follows: "LICENSE -- REQUIRED. No person shall operate or cause to be operated, any amplifying equipment under the provisions of this section in the city for commercial purposes with sound-amplifying equipment in operation unless a license has been obtained from the license collector. The fee for such license shall be as prescribed in Chapter 20." Section 6. Section 26.18 of the Lynwood City Code is amended to read as follows: "REGULATIONS AS TO USE GENERALLY. (1) Commercial use of amplifying equipment wholly unconnected with an advertising purpose as defined by Section 26.1 regulated by this division shall be subject to the following regulations: (a) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech. -3- J. (b) The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent or slanderous. (c) Sound shall not be issued within one hundred yards of hospitals, schools or churches. (d) 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. "(2) Commercial use of amplifying equipment coupled with an advertising purpose as defined by Section 26.1 regulated by this division, shall be subject to the following regulations: (a) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech. (b) Operations shall not be between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. (c) The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent or slanderous. (d) Sound shall not be issued within one hundred yards of hospitals, schools or churches. (e) The volume of sound shall be so controlled that it cannot be heard by the human ear free from physical impair- ment of a person within a dwelling located in any residential zone e.g. R Zone as defined and established by Chapter III of City Ordinance No. 570, 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." Section 7. 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. -U- First read at the regular meeting of the City Council of said city held on the 6th day of December 1966, and finally adopted and ordered published at the regular meeting of said Council held on the 20th day of December 1966, by the following vote: Ayes: Noes: Absent Councilmen Byork, Duncan, Siokos, Smith, Stevens. Councilmen None. Councilmen rr^~^ ATTEST: /G'ity'Clerk, City of liynwood 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. 814 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 28th day of December , 1966 CITY CLERK, CITY OF LYNWOOD