City in Colorado OKs Noise-Level Curbs on Ice Cream Trucks
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BOULDER, Colo. — The city has imposed decibel limits on amplified music-makers used by ice cream trucks to advertise their wares, saying noise is noise no matter what its cause, tune and purpose.
City Council members voted, 7 to 2, this week for an ordinance that orders ice cream trucks to keep their music below 55 decibels, a limit also applied to parties and dirt bikes. The jingles have registered from 70 to 90 decibels.
“Without music, we’re not going to get any business,” said Ice Cream Truck Inc. owner Joe Saurini, 52, who has three trucks playing amplified jingles. The tunes “have got to be so loud that people can hear you at least a block away, so that people can get ready to buy.”
“Citizens decided some time ago that (noise) is one of the things we are going to regulate heavily,” city spokesman David Grimm said.
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