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Declaration of Policy. <br />EXHIBIT A <br />Chapter 9.45 <br />NOISE CONTROL <br />Sections: <br />9.45.010 <br />9.45.020 <br />9.45.030 <br />9.45.040 <br />9.45.050 <br />9.45.060 <br />9.45.070 <br />Public Disturbance -Finding of Special Conditions. <br />Public Disturbance -Noise Unlawful When. <br />Exemptions. <br />Enforcement. <br />Violation -Penalty. <br />Variances. <br />9.45.010 Declaration of Policy. <br />It is declared the policy of the county to minimize the exposure of citizens to adverse effects of <br />excessive noise and to protect, promote, and preserve the public health, safety and welfare. It is <br />the express intent of the board of county commissioners to control the level of noise in a manner <br />which promotes commerce; the use, value, and enjoyment of property, sleep and repose; and the <br />quality of environment. <br />9.45.020 Public Disturbance -Finding of Special Conditions. <br />The making, creation or maintenance of excessive, unnecessary or unusual loud noises which are <br />prolonged and unusual in their time, place and use, affect and are a detriment to public health, <br />comfort, convenience, safety, welfare and prosperity of the people of the county. The board of <br />county commissioners and the county sheriffs department have received numerous citizen's <br />complaints regarding noise and believe such noise constitutes a public disturbance. Special <br />conditions within the county make necessary any and all differences between this chapter and <br />regulations adopted by the Department of Ecology. <br />9.45.030 Public Disturbance -Noise Unlawful When. <br />(1) It is unlawful for any person to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued or any <br />person owning or in possession of property to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued <br />or allow to originate from the property any sound which: <br />(a) Is plainly audible within any dwelling unit which is not the source of the sound or is <br />generated within two hundred feet of any dwelling unit, and; <br />(b) Either reasonably annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, <br />peace or safety of others. <br />(2) Sound which is "plainly audible" is sound that can be understood or identified. <br />(3) It shall be a rebuttable presumption that sounds created between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. do <br />not unreasonably annoy, disturb, injure, or endanger. <br />9.45.040 Exemptions. <br />The following sounds are exempt from the provisions of this chapter: <br />(1) Sounds originating from aircraft in flight and sounds which originate at airports and are <br />directly related to flight operations; <br />(2) Sounds created by safety and protective devices, such as relief valves, where noise <br />suppression would defeat the safety release intent of the device; <br />(3) Sounds created by fire alarms;