A friend of mine sent this to me a little while back...sorry...didnt have a link,would have been smaller than this..but ce la vie!


Booms’ are bust: City after loud motorists
September 08, 2003

By LINDA N. WELLER
The Telegraph

ALTON -- The city wants to lower the "boom" on car stereos.

A proposed city ordinance to be considered at a meeting tonight would make it easier for police to ticket motorists who refuse to turn down the noise.

The amendment to Alton’s excessive noise ordinance is specific to music blaring from a vehicle. It would prohibit anyone from playing "electronically amplified music, stereo, radio, recorder or amplified musical instrument in a manner such that the noise or music may be heard more than 50 feet from the motor vehicle."

Alton Mayor Don Sandidge said the proposal results from an Illinois Supreme Court ruling. Once enacted into city code, police could arrest drivers of such vehicles if they could hear the music at the specified distance from inside their patrol cars.

"Now they have to hear it from within a dwelling," he said.

The city ordinance now applies more to loud, electronically amplified music emanating from a fixed point:

"As may be heard either more than 50 feet from any residence or other place from which the sound originates, or heard within any residential home, apartment unit, hospital or church, other than the place from which the sound originates, through any common walls, floors, or ceilings therein, and which sounds disturb the peace and quiet of the city or its residents at any time," current Alton code says.

An exception to the current restriction is that power lawn mowers, lawn or leaf blowers, construction equipment or power tools can be operated from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

"We get a lot of complaints," of loud music from cars and trucks, Alton Police Chief Chris Sullivan said. Changing the ordinance would make it easier for police to deal with those complaints, he said.

Even if the ordinance changes go into effect, Sullivan said police can’t always locate a vehicle that someone has complained about with a loud stereo blaring and is in motion on city streets.

People also don’t complain in a timely manner, he said.

"Unfortunately, many of them call the next day or they call their aldermen," he said, and there isn’t usually much police can do at that point. "They need to report them immediately to police."

The resolution first will come before the aldermanic Committee of the Whole tonight, then the City Council on Wednesday. If approved, it would come back to the council for first- and second readings at subsequent meetings.

 

Been there done, that.

I have roughly 80 noise violations in just about every county in PA, and Ohio, and some parts of northern new york.

All we're warnings, however the Erie Police dished out a ticket for me having fog lamps on my car. Apparently they are illegal.

 

I dont man...I see both sides to this story...

on one hand I see how others may be siturbed by others loud stereos...BUT....

As well,I think everyone has the right to listen to their music as loud as they want,where they want,when they want...within logical limits of course...some people dont use much common sense.

But its a tough call as to weather its a good law or not..

my 2 peso's

 

I printed that off just so i could whipe my *** with it

 

well realy there should be restrictions on wher eyou can play yoru music loud. i mean you can be driving around a residential area blasting your music at 2 am. but say if your just cruseing the main streets in your town where theres mostly businesses that are closed i dont see a poblem with it. i like my music loud but theres still the fact that it shoudl be kept IINSIDE the car. the point of playing is so that you hear it not everyone else.

 

A lot of difference it makes when windows are rolled up.

 

The way I see it is, any time during the day, play your system as loud as you want, wherever you want. Everyones too busy to care. And at night, turn it down in neighbourhoods so people can sleep. All it is is common curtesy.

 

And people shouldn't drive their rides in residential areas blasting their clipped bass anyways. Stupid poser neighbours.

I mean, I occasionally have let the odd burp out too see how much it shook the house, but at least it was clean bass!

 

Ahh, I love the clause "within logical limits"

Logic is a relative thing. One person might consider logical limits of nothing in excess of 140 db. While another person might see anything in excess of 95db to be purely illogical.

How do you qualify that? They are attempting to qualify the logical limits with the 50ft rule. If you can hear it from more than 50 ft, then that is "illogically loud" and a ticket will be issued.

Ah, will this debate ever end?

And then there are the people on this board who say "my car sounds great inside, nice and loud; but I can hardly hear it outside"

Isn't that the preferred scenario?

 

like someone said, what a difference windows down makes. if you want to listen to loud music, then do it with the windows up!! it's that much louder! if you want to disturb people, then you just might deserve a ticket.

just imagine some old fart parked in front of your house with a cube van with 8 15", 5 6 1/2" 5 51/4" and 5 Tweets with 8000 watts of power blasting some Barry Manillo (typo? i'm seriously hammered right now and i miss my gal.. )
Let's be reasonable... above a certain loudness, one is just looking for attention... don't do it around the quiet neighbourhoods... that just rightfully pisses people off.
if you need that much attention, go for counselling...