Park Timbers HOA

City Noise Ordinance

May 08, 2002

Frequently the Summer season brings parties and occasional outdoor entertainment. The following provision from the Code of the City of New Orleans is provided as a public service to our community. Section 66-203(3). Specific nuisance noises prohibited (radios, televisions, musical instruments and similar devices).

a. It shall be unlawful to operate or play any radio, television, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound amplifying equipment or similar device on a public right-of-way, in a public park, or from a motor vehicle which produces or reproduces sound in a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of 7.5 meters (25 feet).

b. It shall be unlawful to operate or play any radio, television, phonograph, musical instrument, loudspeaker, or similar device that is plainly audible to any person other than the operator between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. in parks, playgrounds, or recreation areas, unless a permit has been issued.

c. It shall be unlawful to operate or play any musical instrument on a public right-of-way, in a public park, playground, or recreation area which produces sound in such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of 15 meters (50 feet) unless a permit has been issued.

d. It shall be unlawful between the hours of 9:00 p.m Sunday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. on the subsequent morning or between the hours of 10:30 p.m. on a Friday or Saturday and 10:00 a.m. the subsequent morning to operate or play in a dwelling occupying a parcel or lot of land or to operate or play anywhere on a parcel or lot of land contiguous or adjacent to another parcel or lot of land occupied by a neighboring dwelling any radio, television, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound-amplification equipment or similar device which produces or reproduces sound in such a manner as to be plainly audible at a distance of one foot from any exterior wall of the neighboring dwelling or at a distance beyond the boundary between the parcels or lots, whichever is the lesser distance from the point where the sound is produced or reproduced.

e. It shall be unlawful between the hours of 9:00 p.m Sunday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. on the subsequent morning or between the hours of 10:30 p.m. on a Friday or Saturday and 10:00 a.m. the subsequent morning to operate or play in an apartment, condominium unit or other dwelling unit of a multiple-unit structure occupying a parcel or lot of land or in any common or exterior area of such land any radio, television, phonograph, loudspeaker, sound-amplification equipment or similar device which produces or reproduces sound in such manner as to be plainly audible within any other apartment, condominium unit or other dwelling unit within the same dwelling structure.