NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 508

HOUSE BILL 710

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE OPERATION OF LOUD SPEAKERS, RADIOS, PICCOLOS, PHONOGRAPHS OR OTHER MACHINERY OR DEVICES FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF MUSICAL AND HUMAN VOICES OUTSIDE OF BUILDINGS AFTER 11:00 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT IN THE RURAL AREAS OF LEE COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in the rural areas of Lee County outside the corporate limits of the City of Sanford between the hours of 11:00 o'clock P. M. and 7:30 o'clock A. M. to play or operate any loud speaker, radio, piccolo, phonograph, musical devices or other machinery or device of any kind whatsoever for the reproduction of musical or human voices or a combination thereof, in such a way and manner and at such pitch as to produce such volume of sound as to annoy and disturb any person or persons living in the vicinity thereof, or so as to constitute a nuisance to the general public, or to any one person; provided nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the lawful operation of duly licensed drive-in theatres.

Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1959.