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Ordinance No. 2002-171 a.m. (fl Loading and Unloading. Loading, unloading, opening, closing or other handling of boxes, crates, containers, building materials, garbage cans or similar objects between the hours of 9:40 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. the following day in such a manner as to cause a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary, with the exception of companies under contract with the City for the purpose of waste collection. Such contractors may not laad or unload between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. (g) Construction. Operating or permitting the operation of any tools or equipment used in construction, drilling or demolition work: (1) Between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. the following day on weekdays or 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Sundays, such that the sound therefrom creates a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary, except for emergency work of public service utilities or by special variance. (2) This section shatl not apply to the use of domestic power tools subject to subsection (k) hereof. (h) Emer ency Signaling Devices. (1) The intentional sounding or permitting the sounding outdoors of any fire, burglar, or civil defense alarm, siren, whistle or similar stationary emergency signaling device, except for emergency purposes or for testing, as provided in subsections (h)(2) and (3) hereof. (2) Testing of a stationary emergency signaling device sha11 occur at the same time of day each time such a test is performed, but not before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. or the closing time of a commercial establishment, whichever shall oceur later. Any such testing shall use only the minimum cycle test time. In no case shall such test time exceed sixty seconds. (3) Testing of the complete emergency signaling system, including the functioning of the signaling device and the personnel response to the signaling device, shall not occur before 8:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. In no case shall such test time exceed ten minutes. (4) Sounding or permitting the sounding of any exterior burglar or fire alann or any motor vehicle burglar alarm unless such alarm is automatically terminated within two minutes of activation, or within a reasonable time after notification of activation. (5) The sounding of any horn or other auditory signaling device on or in any motor vehicle on any public right of way or public spaee, except as a warning of danger. (i) Radias. Television Sets. Musical Instruments and Similar Devices. Operating, playing or permitting the operation or playing of any radio, television, phonograph, drurn, musical instrument, sound amplifier or similar device which produces, reproduces or amplifies sound: (1) Between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 5:00 a.m. the following day in such a manner as tv create a noise disturbance across a residential real property boundary. (2) In such a manner as to create a noise disturbance at fifty feet (fifteen meters) from such device, when operated in or on a motor vehiele on a