HomeMy WebLinkAbout1691 - Sound Amplification Equipment on BeachesORDINANCE NO. 1691
• AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
AMENDING SECTION 10.32.055 OF THE NEWPORT
BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE DEALING WITH SOUND
AMPLIFICATION EQUIPMENT BEING PROHIBITED
ON PUBLIC BEACHES
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach DOES
ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 10.32.055 of the Newport Beach
Municipal Code is amended to read:
"10.32.055 Sound Amplification Equipment Prohibited
On Public Beaches. 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.
(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
concerts, 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
use any sound truck or sound amplification equipment on
• any public beach."
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be published once in
the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be
effective thirty (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
28th day of June , 1976, and was adopted on
the 12th day of July , 1976, by the
following vote, to wit:
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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CERTIFIED AS THE ORIGINAL AND
CERTIFIED AS i O 'rUGLICATION
DATE .............................
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AYES, COUNCILMEN: Rogers, Kuehn,
Ryckoff, Williams
NOES, COUNCILMEN: None
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5/28/76