On July 10, the Spring Valley City Council held a public hearing prior to their regular meeting to discuss the proposed noise ordinance.
The ordinance states “it is unlawful for any person to make, continue or cause to be made or continued any excessive, unnecessary or unusually loud noise or any noise which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others, within the limits of the city.”
This ordinance is a results of complaints from residents regarding noise issues and frustrations over the lack of enforcement.
“We have to have a statute or ordinance to enforce on,” Fillmore County Sheriff John DeGeorge explained. “Once adopted, if it is a violation of what is in that ordinance and it is witnessed by a deputy or we have video evidence of it then we can take action. We just have to have the mechanism to enforce it.”
