Akron, Ohio.pdf

AI Summary

This document contains sections of the Akron, Ohio municipal code establishing noise and peace ordinances. The code prohibits disturbing the peace through clamorous behavior, intoxication, fighting, and disorderly conduct (with violations classified as minor misdemeanors), and regulates noisy activities including advertising, machinery operation, and noise-producing instruments (misdemeanors of the fourth degree). Section 132.16 specifically restricts sound amplification devices, establishing that unreasonable noise from radios, phonographs, loudspeakers, and musical instruments is prima facie unlawful, with stricter limits in residential zones between 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. (where sound must not be audible beyond eighty feet from the property line) and in public rights-of-way (where sound must not be audible beyond one hundred feet).