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9.45.030 Public disturbance - noise unlawful when 1.It is unlawful for any person to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued or any person owning or in possession of property to make, continue, or cause to be made or continued or allow to originate from the property any sound which: a. Is plainly audible within any dwelling unit which is not the source of the sound or is generated within two hundred feet of any dwelling unit, and; b. Either reasonably annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others. 2.Sound which is "plainly audible" is sound that can be understood or identified. 3.It shall be a rebuttable presumption that sounds created between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. do not unreasonably annoy, disturb, injure, or endanger. (Ord. 2016-009, 2016; Ord. 2016-002, 2016) 9.45.040 Exemptions. The following sounds are exempt from the provisions of this chapter: Mounds originating from aircraft in flight and sounds which originate at airports and are directly related to flight operations; 2.Sounds created by safety and protective devices, such as relief valves, where noise suppression would defeat the safety release intent of the device; 3.Sounds created by fire alarms; 4.Sounds created by emergency equipment and emergency work necessary in the interests of law enforcement or of the health, safety or welfare of the community; S.Sounds created by the discharge of firearms in the course of lawful hunting or target practice activities; 6.Sounds created by natural phenomena; 7.Sounds originating from [lawful] forest harvesting and silviculture activity, and from agriculture and livestock (not including sounds created by dogs);