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Noncommercial use of sound trucks with sound amplifying equipment in operation within the City of Pullman is permitted under the following conditions, restrictions, and regulations:

(1) The only sounds permitted are music or the human voice.

(2) Operations are permitted six hours each day, except, on Sundays and legal holidays when no operation is permitted. The permitted six 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 eight-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 said truck is stopped or impeded by traffic. Where stopped by traffic the sound amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one minute at each stop. 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 one hundred yards of hospitals, schools, or churches.

(5) The human speech and music amplified shall not be profane, lewd, indecent, or slanderous.

(6) 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 said volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing, or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility.

(7) No sound amplifying equipment shall be operated within excess of fifteen watts of power in the last stage of amplification. (Ord. A-271 §3, 1955).