Friday, February 10, 2023

Houston City Council considers new noise ordinance cracking down on nois...



- Chapter 30 - NOISE AND SOUND LEVEL REGULATION.

Plainly audible when describing a sound or noise means any amplified sound or noise that can be clearly heard by a person with normal hearing faculties such that a reasonable person would believe such sound or noise unreasonably disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of others in violation of this chapter. The term does not require the clear appreciation of specific words of speech or specific words of a song.


Reasonable Person.

A phrase used to denote a hypothetical person who exercises qualities of attention, knowledge; intelligence, and judgment that society requires of its members for the protection of their own interest and the interests of others. Thus, the test of negligence is based on either a failure to do something that a reasonable person, guided by considerations that ordinarily regulate conduct, would do, or on the doing of something that a reasonable and prudent (wise) person would not do.