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Dates of Operation to Days/Hours of operation: Name of Applicant/Business: Name(s) of Principal Business Owner(s): Mailing Address of Applicant: Phone No. of Applicant: Contact Name: Email Address of Applicant: Fax No. of Applicant: Vehicle(s) to be Used (attach additional sheet if necessary) VEHICLE DESCRIPTION LICENSE PLATE # NAME & ADDRESS OF VEHICLE OWNER Vehicle Operator(s) (attach additional sheet if necessary) NAME ADDRESS Purpose for which sound truck is to be used: Location(s) within the City the sound truck is to be used: Description of amplifying equipment to be used: Signature of Applicant Date Required Attachments: Payment of $2.00 fee City of Cody Sound Truck Permit Application ---PAGE BREAK--- Sound Truck Permit Who: Any person or organization is eligible to obtain a permit. Purpose: Allows for the operation of a Sound Truck which is defined as any motor vehicle or horsedrawn vehicle, having mounted thereon, or attached thereto, any sound amplifying equipment. Duration: The permit is good for one year. The permitted hours of operation shall be between the hours of eleven thirty o'clock (11:30) A.M. and one thirty o'clock (1:30) P.M., and four thirty o'clock (4:30) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) P.M., except during the night rodeo season when the hours may be from eleven thirty o'clock (11:30) A.M., to one thirty o'clock (1:30) P.M., and from four thirty o'clock (4:30) P.M., until the time of the night rodeo parade on Sheridan Avenue, and in any event not later than eight o'clock (8:00) P.M. Fee: $2 per year Limit: There is no limit to the number of permits which may be issued. The only sounds permitted are music or human speech. See the Municipal Code for addition regulations. Approval: The city clerk approves the license. No Council approval is needed. Process: 1. Applicant fills out a Sound Truck Permit Application. 2. Set up the person or business in the Business Licensing module of Caselle if they do not already have an account. 3. Enter the new permit 4. Calculate the billing on the permit 5. Post the payment to the permit 6. Print the permit stamp, sign & make a copy of the permit give the original to the applicant 7. File the application and copy of the permit in central files ---PAGE BREAK--- Chapter 8 SOUND TRUCKS1 3-8-1: DEFINITIONS: 3-8-2: NONCOMMERCIAL USE: 3-8-3: COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING: 3-8-1: DEFINITIONS: For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: SOUND AMPLIFYING EQUIPMENT: Any machine or device for the amplification of the human voice, music or other sound. "Sound amplifying equipment", as used herein, shall not be construed as including standard automobile radios when used and heard only by the occupants of the vehicle in which installed, or warning devices of other vehicles used for traffic safety purposes. SOUND TRUCK: Any motor vehicle or horsedrawn vehicle, having mounted thereon, or attached thereto, any sound amplifying equipment. (1960 Compilation § 25-201) 3-8-2: NONCOMMERCIAL USE: A. Registration Required: No person shall use or cause to be used a sound truck with its sound amplifying equipment in operation for noncommercial purposes in the city before filing a registration statement with the city clerk in writing. This registration statement shall be filed in duplicate and shall state the following: 1. Name and address of the applicant. 2. Address of place of business of applicant. 3. License number and motor number of the sound truck to be used by applicant. 4. Name and address of person who owns the sound truck. 5. Name and address of person having direct charge of sound truck. 6. Names and addresses of all persons who will use or operate the sound truck. 7. The purpose for which the sound truck will be used. 8. A general statement as to the sections of the city in which the sound truck will be used. 9. The proposed hours of operation of the sound truck. 10. The number of days of proposed operation of the sound truck. ---PAGE BREAK--- 11. A general description of the sound amplifying equipment to be used. B. Registration Statement And Amendment: All persons using or causing to be used sound trucks for noncommercial purposes shall amend any registration statement filed pursuant to the provisions of subsection A of this section within forty eight (48) hours after any change in the information therein furnished. C. Registration Statement And Identification: The city clerk shall return to each applicant under this section, one copy of such registration statement duly certified by the city clerk as a correct copy of the application. Such certified copy of application shall be in the possession of the person operating the sound truck at all times while the sound truck's amplifying equipment is in operation, and such copy shall be displayed and shown to any police officer of the city upon request. D. Regulations For Use: Noncommercial use of sound trucks in the city with sound amplifying equipment in operation, shall be subject to the following regulations: 1. The only sounds permitted are music or human speech. 2. The permitted hours of operation shall be between the hours of eleven thirty o'clock (11:30) A.M. and one thirty o'clock (1:30) P.M., and four thirty o'clock (4:30) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) P.M., except during the night rodeo season when the hours may be from eleven thirty o'clock (11:30) A.M., to one thirty o'clock (1:30) P.M., and from four thirty o'clock (4:30) P.M., until the time of the night rodeo parade on Sheridan Avenue, and in any event not later than eight o'clock (8:00) 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 seven miles per hour, except when such truck is stopped or impeded by traffic. When stopped by traffic the sound amplifying equipment shall not be operated for longer than one minute at each stop. 4. Sound shall not be issued within two hundred feet (200') of the Cody Hospital, the Cody Medical Center, any doctor's clinic, or any school while the same is in session, or any church while worship services are being carried on therein, or any courthouse in which court is then in session. 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 be audible for a distance in excess of two hundred feet (200') from the sound truck and so that the volume is not unreasonably loud, raucous, jarring, disturbing, or a nuisance to persons within the area of audibility. (1960 Compilation § 25-202) 3-8-3: COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING: A. License Required; Fee: No person shall operate or cause to be operated any sound truck in the city for commercial advertising purposes with sound amplifying equipment in operation, unless a ---PAGE BREAK--- license has been obtained from the city clerk. The fee for said license shall be two dollars ($2.00) payable annually in advance. B. Application For License: Persons applying for the license required under this section shall file with the city clerk an application in writing giving on the application the information required in the registration statement under subsection 3-8-2A of this chapter. C. Issuance Of License: The city clerk shall issue a license under this section upon the payment of the required license fee, unless the application required in this section reveals that the applicant would violate the regulations prescribed in subsection 3-8-2D of this chapter or the provisions of some other provision of this code or other ordinance of the city. D. Possession And Display Of License: A licensee shall keep such license in his possession in the sound truck during the time the sound truck's amplifying equipment is in operation. The license shall be displayed and shown to any police officer of the city upon request. E. Regulations For Use: No person shall operate, or cause to be operated, any sound truck for commercial sound advertising purposes in violation of the regulations set forth in subsection 3-8- 2D of this chapter. (1960 Compilation § 25-203)