6/10/2016 Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA Code of Ordinances
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The document establishes Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish noise ordinance regulations, codified in Chapter 2 of Title 12. Section 12:100 prohibits any loud and raucous noise that is offensive to persons of ordinary sensibilities and interferes with public peace, comfort, or property enjoyment. Section 12:101 enumerates specific violations including abusive or vulgar language in public places tending to incite immediate breach of peace; playing radios, phonographs, musical instruments, or sound-producing devices from stationary or vehicle locations at volumes that disturb residents or the public; improper use of vehicle horns except as danger signals; operation of vehicles emitting loud grinding or rattling noise; and discharge of steam whistles or engine exhaust into open air outside permitted circumstances. The current noise chapter was adopted by Ordinance No. 11697 on March 22, 2000, repealing prior noise regulations dating to 1951 and 1962.
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This ordinance amends Section 12:101 of the Baton Rouge City and East Baton Rouge Parish Code to regulate noise violations by specifying enumerated acts that create loud and raucous noise. The amendment adds a time restriction on construction work noise, prohibiting such noise in or adjacent to residential areas outside the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, except when urgent public safety necessity requires permission from the director of public works. The ordinance defines "construction work" to include erection, excavation, and demolition activities. Other regulated noise sources include abusive or profane language in public places, sound-producing devices from stationary locations and vehicles, vehicle horns, malfunctioning vehicles, steam whistles, and engine exhausts without proper mufflers.
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