HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-11 08-08 CCO CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER
ORDINANCE NO. 77 -11
. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 19 OF THE CITY ORDINANCES
PROVIDING FOR THE ABATEMENT OF NOISY PARTIES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 19 of the City Ordinances is hereby amended by the
addition of the following:
Section 19 -1201. PURPOSE. It is recoanized that loud, unpleasant, raucous
or prolonged noise can and does have a harmful, debilitating and detrimental effect
upon human beings, adversely affectina their mental and physical health, safety
and well being. Such loud, unpleasant, raucous or prolonged noise and the resulting
detrimental, debilitating and harmful effects upon human beings has become a major
contemporary urban concern and is now considered to be a pollutant, not dissimilar
to the pollution of the air and water by toxins or particulates. In an endeavor to
provide for the mental and physical health, safety, well -being and peaceful repose
of its citizens and their neighborhoods, it is hereby declared to be in the public
interest that loud, unpleasant, raucous, unnecessary or prolonged noise be abated.
Section 19 -1202. NOISY PARTIES. No person shall congregate because of,
participate in, or be in any party or gathering of people from which noise emanates
of a sufficient volume so as to disturb the peace, auiet or repose of persons residinq
• in any residential area. No person shall visit or remain within any residential
dwelling unit wherein such party or gathering is taking place except persons who have
gone there for the sole purpose of abating_ said disturbance. A police officer may
order all persons present in any croup or gathering from which such noise emanates,
other than the owners or tenants of the dwelling unit, to immediately disperse in lieu
of being charged under this ordinance. Owners or tenants of the dwelling unit shall
immediately abate the disturbance and, failing to do so, shall be in violation of this
ordinance.
Section 19 -1203. PENALTY. Any person violating the provisions of this
ordinance shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred
($300) dollars and by imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days, or both.
Section 2. This ordinance shall become effective after adoption and upon
thirty (30) days following its legal publication.
Adopted this 8th day of August 1977.
Mayor
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ATTEST:
• Clerk
Date Published July 21, 1977
Effective Date August 19, 1977