HomeMy WebLinkAbout1361 - Sound Amplifying EquipmentORDINANCE NO. 11( 3 6 1
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
AMENDING CHAPTER 10.32 ENTITLED "SOUND
AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT" TO PROHIBIT SUCH
EQUIPMENT ON PUBLIC BEACHES AND IN BALBOA
PARK, AND TO PROVIDE CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 10.32.055 is added to Chapter
10.32 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code to read:
1110.32.055 Sound Amplification Equipment Prohibited
on Public Beaches and in Balboa Park.
A. Policy Statement
The City Council makes the following findings:
(1) The public beaches adjacent to the waters
of the Pacific Ocean and Newport Harbor are a unique
recreational resource which the City holds in trust under
a legislative grant from the State of California. Balboa
Park is a park located on filled tidelands adjacent to
the ocean beach on the Balboa Peninsula.
(2) These public beaches are intensively used
for swimming, surfing and sunbathing by a diverse group
of people which includes City residents, tourists, and
persons residing throughout Orange County and Southern
California.
(3) The use of sound trucks and sound amplification
equipment by groups and organizations who wish to hold con-
certs, meetings or public assemblies on or near these public
beaches is disturbing to the vast majority of the people
using the beaches for recreation and to local residents
whose homes are in close proximity to the beaches.
B. No permit shall be issued for and no person shall
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use any sound truck or sound amplification equipment on any
public beach or in Balboa Park."
SECTION 2. Section 10.32.090 of the Newport Beach
Municipal Code is amended to read:
"10.32.090 Exceptions. The provisions of this Chapter
shall not apply to the use of sound trucks or sound amplifying
equipment in conducting the following activities:
(a) Sporting and recreational activities conducted on
public school property or in public parks when authorized
by the public agency having control of such public park or
school property.
(b) Water sport activities conducted on the waters of
Newport Harbor which are conducted under the authority of
any applicable City or Orange County Harbor District regul-
ations.
(c) Activities conducted on property of churches or
private clubs where the sound is confined within the boun-
daries of such property.
(d) Licensed sightseeing or excursion vessels
operating on the waters of Newport Harbor.
(e) Public officials or employees while acting in the
performance of their duties.
(f) Activities conducted within the boundaries of City
licensed amusement centers where the sound is confined
within the boundaries of such amusement centers."
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published once in
the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be
effective 30 days after the date of its adoption.
This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the
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9/24/70
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28th day of September , 1970, and was adopted
on the 12th day of October , 1970, by the
following vote, to wit:
ATTEST:
C%ty Clerk `
_CERTIFIED AS THE ORIGINAL AND
CERTIFIED AS To PLIBLICATJON.
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IT Y CLERK OF THE CI I F E RT BEACH
AYES, COUNCILMEN: McInnis, Kymla,
Rogers, Hirth, Croul, Dostal, Parsons
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
None
ABSENT COUNCILMEN
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Mayor
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