5.70.050 Noncommercial use of sound trucks--Regulations for use.
Noncommercial use of sound trucks in the city of Vancouver with sound amplifying equipment in operation shall be subject to the following regulations:
1. The only sounds permitted are music or human speech;
2. Operations are permitted for four hours each day, except on Sundays and legal holidays when no operations shall be authorized. The permitted four hours of operation shall be between the hours of eleven-thirty a.m. and one-thirty p.m. and between the hours of four-thirty p.m. and six-thirty p.m.;
3. 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 miles per hour except when the truck is stopped or impeded by traffic. Where stopped by traffic the sound amplifying equipment must be operated by a person other than the driver of the sound truck while it is in motion;
4. Sound shall not be issued within two hundred feet of hospitals, schools, churches, or the courthouse;
5. No sound truck with its amplifying device in operation shall be operated on the following streets between the points designated:
Columbia Street from Second Street to Thirteenth Street
Washington Street from the Interstate Bridge to Thirteenth Street
Main Street from Fourth Street to Thirteenth Street
Broadway from Fifth Street to Eleventh Street
First Street from Washington Street to Main Street
Second Street from Columbia to Washington Street
Third Street from Columbia Street to Washington Street
Fourth Street from Columbia Street to Main Street
Fifth Street from Columbia Street to West Reserve Street
Sixth Street from Columbia Street to Broadway
Seventh Street from Washington Street to Broadway
Eighth Street from Columbia Street to Broadway
Ninth Street from Columbia Street to Broadway
Evergreen Boulevard from Columbia Street to Broadway
Eleventh Street from Columbia Street to Broadway
Twelfth Street from Columbia Street to Broadway
Thirteenth Street from Columbia Street to Broadway;
6. The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent, or slanderous;
7. The volume of sound shall be controlled so that it will not be audible for a distance in excess of one hundred feet from the sound truck and so that the volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing, or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility;
8. No sound amplifying equipment shall be operated within excess of fifteen watts of power in the last stage of amplification. (Ord. M-651 §2(d), 1963)