Chapter 40.44
RADIO, TELEVISION INTERFERENCE
Sections:
40.44.020 Interference prohibited – Penalty.
40.44.070 Enforcement officer.
40.44.080 Inspection – Notice.
40.44.100 Operation after notice.
40.44.010 Person defined.
“Person” means and includes both the singular and plural and shall also mean and include person, individual, firm, corporation, copartnership, association, club, society or any other organization.
40.44.020 Interference prohibited – Penalty.
It is unlawful for any person to operate in this City any device, appliance, equipment, and/or apparatus, generating and/or causing high frequency oscillations and/or radiations which interfere with radio broadcast receiving apparatus or wireless receiving apparatus or television reception. Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of an infraction. (Ord. 1400)
40.44.030 Exceptions.
X-ray pictures, examinations or treatments may be made at any time if the machines or apparatus used therefor are properly equipped to avoid all unnecessary or reasonably preventable interference with radio and television reception and are not negligently operated.
40.44.040 X-ray, screening.
Complete screening of the room in which offending X-ray apparatus is operated may be required when such screening is necessary in order to avoid such interference.
40.44.050 Neon signs.
Neon signs shall be deemed to comply with the provision of this chapter when such signs are properly equipped to avoid all unnecessary or reasonably preventable interference with radio and television reception and are not negligently operated.
40.44.060 Radio stations.
This chapter shall not apply to radio stations, either broadcast commercial or amateur, licensed by the Federal government and/or which are engaged in interstate communication.
40.44.070 Enforcement officer.
The City Manager is hereby charged with the enforcement of this chapter. He may appoint or deputize such other persons as he deems necessary, to assist him in enforcing the provisions of this chapter.
40.44.080 Inspection – Notice.
When an inspection and test shall have been made by the enforcement officer, or his duly authorized deputy, and/or deputies, and it is found that equipment or apparatus coming within the terms of this chapter is being operated in violation of its terms, the person responsible for the operation of such equipment shall be notified in writing to discontinue its use, or to make additions, repairs or modifications thereof, in order that the same may be operated in a manner which complies with the provisions of this chapter.
40.44.090 Mailed notice.
The mailing of a registered letter addressed to the owner at the premises where the equipment or apparatus is located shall constitute a sufficient notice for purpose of this chapter.
40.44.100 Operation after notice.
In the event that the owner or operator of such equipment or apparatus does not, within 10 days after receipt of notice to repair or discontinue the use of such equipment or apparatus, either entirely discontinue the use of such equipment or apparatus, or repair the same so that it complies with the provisions of this chapter, such owner shall be deemed to be operating such machine or equipment or apparatus in violation of the provisions of this chapter and such person shall be subject to the penalties provided for such violations.