Burbank Municipal Code Art. 2 Sound Vehicles with Amplifiers

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates:

SOUND AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT: As used herein shall mean any machine or device for the amplification of the human voice, music or any other sound. “Sound amplifying equipment” as used herein shall not be construed as including standard authorized automobile radios when used and heard only by occupants of the vehicle in which installed or warning devices on emergency vehicles used only for traffic safety purposes, or sound devices when used on tradesmen’s, peddlers’, hucksters’ or hawkers’ carts or vehicles to attract attention.

SOUND TRUCK: Any motor vehicle, or horsedrawn vehicle, or vehicle moved or drawn by human power, whether in motion or stationary, having mounted thereon, or attached thereto, any sound amplifying equipment. [Formerly numbered Section 3-6; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]

Every person hiring, owning or in control of a sound truck used or operated on any street for commercial purposes with sound amplifying equipment in operation shall pay an annual license fee in the amount set forth in the Burbank Fee Resolution for each vehicle so used, and shall comply with the requirements of Title 9, Chapter 3, Article 2, Division 3, “Sound Trucks”, of this code. [Formerly numbered Section 3-7; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; Amended by Ord. No. 3623, eff. 6/28/03; 2338, 2336.]

A. Permit: No person owning, hiring or in control of a sound truck shall use or operate such vehicle on any street for commercial purposes with sound amplifying equipment in operation without first obtaining a permit so to do from the Community Development Department.

B. Approval of Application for Permit: The Community Development Department shall, without delay, deliver such application for a permit to the Chief of Police for approval. Within seven (7) days after receiving such application, the Chief of Police shall file with the Community Development Department a report in which they shall recommend that the permit be denied, granted as applied for, or granted under such conditions as to protect the public peace, health, safety, morals or welfare, together with their reasons therefor.

C. Grounds for Refusal of Permit: Such permit shall be approved unless the Community Development Department finds that use or operation of such vehicle would violate or tend to violate any of the regulations set forth in Section 9-3-221 of this code. [Formerly numbered Section 3-9; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; Amended by Ord. No. 3828, eff. 8/24/12; 3048, 2338, 2336, 2194.]