1 Cleveland, Ohio Noise Ordinance 605.10 Unnecessary Noise

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Cleveland's Noise Ordinance 605.10 prohibits unreasonably loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise that is detrimental to health or disturbs the quiet and repose of neighboring inhabitants. Prohibited activities include sounding vehicle horns except as warning signals, keeping animals or birds that cause frequent or prolonged noise audible outside property lines, operating defective or improperly loaded vehicles, blowing steam whistles except to signal work start/stop or warn of danger, and discharging engine exhaust into open air. Construction, demolition, and mechanical equipment operation are prohibited between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. within 500 feet of residences and 150 feet of hospitals, schools, courthouses, and churches during their operating or service hours; these areas are designated as "zones of quiet." Compressed air devices are exempted from muffling requirements only when operated as jackhammers on weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.