Duarte Municipal Code Ch. 5.72 Sound Trucks

Any person operating, driving or parking or causing to be operated, driven or parked upon any street, alley, parkway, sidewalk or public property within the city, any advertising vehicle, sound truck or commercial vehicle with sound amplifying equipment in operation or with any sound or signaling device in operation for the purpose of attracting or calling the attention to such vehicle and where the same is not used for noncommercial purposes as determined by the director of finance in his discretion, shall be required to obtain a permit in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter. The permit shall specify the date, time and places of operation.

(Ord. 72 § 95, 1960)

The use of sound trucks in the city with sound amplifying equipment in operation shall be subject to the following regulations:

(a) Sound amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless the sound truck upon which equipment is mounted is operated at a speed of at least ten miles per hour except when the truck is stopped or impeded by traffic conditions. Where stopped by traffic conditions the sound amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one minute at each such stop. Except if stopped by traffic conditions, sound trucks shall not stop except when legally parked at the curbline;

(b) Sound shall not be issued within one hundred yards of hospitals, schools, churches, courthouses or courtrooms or county buildings or the city hall;

(c) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech;

(d) The sound truck shall be operated only on those streets or boulevards designated by the director of finance in the permit to operate the same and shall be operated for four and one-half hours each day between the hours of eleven a.m. and one-thirty p.m. and the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six-thirty p.m., except on Sundays and legal holidays no operation shall be authorized, unless the director of finance has determined upon competent evidence that in the individual case different hours of operation would be justified then such permit shall set forth such different hours of operation;

(e) No permit for the operation of a sound truck shall exceed thirty days, unless a longer time has been specified by the director of finance upon receiving competent evidence justifying the same, or unless the thirty day permit has been extended by the director of finance upon hearing competent evidence justifying such extension.

(Ord. 72 § 96, 1960)