§ 59.5.0806 — Regulations for Use

§59.5.0806 Regulations for Use

Noncommercial use of sound trucks in the City of San Diego with sound amplifying equipment in operation shall be subject to the following regulations: (a) The only sounds permitted are music or human speech. (b) Operations are permitted between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. at and during public events and affairs of interest to the general public. (c) Sound amplifying equipment shall not be operated unless the sound truck upon which such equipment is mounted is operated at a speed of at least ten (10) miles per hour except when said truck is stopped or impeded by traffic. Where stopped by traffic the said sound amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one minute at each stop. (d) Sound shall not be issued within one hundred (100) yards of hospitals, schools, churches, or courthouses. (e) No sound truck with its amplifying device in operation shall be operated within the Central Traffic District of the City of San Diego as said Central Traffic District is defined in Chapter 8. (f) The human speech and music amplified shall not be obscene, lewd, indecent or slanderous. (g) The volume of sound shall be controlled so that said volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility and so that the volume of sound shall not exceed an “A” weighted sound level of 65 decibels on the “slow” scale at a distance of 50 feet from the sound amplifying equipment as measured by a sound level meter which meets “American National Standard” ANSI S1.4–1983 or its successor. (h) No sound amplifying equipment shall be operated unless the axis of the center of any sound reproducing equipment used shall be parallel to the direction of travel of the sound truck; provided, however, that any sound reproducing equipment may be so placed upon said sound truck as to not vary more than 15 (degrees) either side of the axis of the center of the direction of travel. (i) No sound truck with its amplifying device in operation shall be driven on the same street past the same point more than twice in a period of one hour. (j) It shall be unlawful to operate a noncommercial sound truck in violation of these regulations.

(“Regulations for Use” added 2–23–1987 by O–16813 N.S.)