Bylaw No. 05(2025) A Bylaw Respecting Good Order Including Noise — full text

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## TOWN OF OUTLOOK ## BYLAW NO. 05 (2025) A BYLAW RESPECTING GOOD ORDER INCLUDING NOISE The Council of the Town of Outlook, in the Province of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: 1. This Bylaw may be cited as "The Good Order Bylaw". 2. In this bylaw: - a. "Emergency" includes but is not restricted to work carried out to preserve, protect or repair property that is an imminent danger to the health or safety of any person or that will fall into further disrepair or collapse without immediate work; - b. "Holiday" means any statutory holiday as defined in or any holiday proclaimed as such by the Council of the Town; - c. "Occupant" means the owner, occupant or licensee of the premises or any person found on the premises at or around the time when the noise or sound issues from the premises; - e. "Town" means the Town of Outlook or the land and area within the boundaries or jurisdiction of the Town of Outlook. - d. "Premises" means the area contained within the boundaries of any lot and includes any building situated within such boundaries. Provided, however, that where any building contains more than one dwelling unit, each dwelling unit, or common area of such building and the land surrounding the building within the boundaries of the lot shall be deemed to be separate premises; ## 3. DEFINING SECTION - b. Without restricting the generality hereof, a disturbance of good order can be caused by anyone: - a. Without restricting the generality hereof, a noise is loud or unusual or unnecessary if the noise is persistent and can be easily heard by an individual or member of the public who is not on the same premises from which the noise emanates or if the noise from a street, or other public place can be easily heard from within a residence or place of work or business or otherwise annoys, disturbs, injures, endangers or detracts from the comfort, repose, peace or safety of other persons within the Town - i. Fighting, screaming, shouting, swearing, singing, or using insulting or obscene language, or - ii. By being of impaired judgement by the use of alcohol or legal or illegal substances, - ili. By impeding or molesting other persons, or - iv. By urinating or defecating, or - v. By loitering 8. In the absence of other evidence, or by way of corroboration of other evidence, the court may infer from the evidence of a peace officer relating to the conduct of other persons, whether ascertained or not, that a noise annoyed, disturbed any person or detracted from the comfort, repose, peace or safety of any person within the Town. ## 4. GENERAL PROHIBITION - a. Everyone, not being in a private dwelling, must refrain from causing a disturbance of good order defined in Section 3b. - b. Except as may be otherwise provided by this bylaw or any other superseding legislation no person shall make, cause, allow, suffer or permit to be made or continue to make, cause, allow, suffer or permit to continue to be made any loud or unusual noise or other disturbance of good order - c. Without detracting from the generality of section 4 b., offenses under this bylaw include but are not restricted to the following specific offenses. - i. No person who owns, keeps or harbours a pet of any kind or who is the owner or occupant of a premise on which a pet of any kind is kept shall allow such pet to continuously create a loud or unusual or unnecessary noise at any time. - ii. No person, being the owner or occupant of any premise shall operate or permit or suffer or allow to be operated, play or allow to be played any appliance, device or machine used for the production of amplification of sound either in or on a premise or in a public place hereby creating a loud or unusual noise. - iii. No person shall operate or allow to be operated any device or equipment powered by an engine of any kind in any residential district between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00 am. - iv. No person shall discharge any firework or exhibit any firework display within the limits of the Town of Outlook in any residential zoning district at any time of day 6. No person shall discharge any firework or exhibit any firework display within the limits of the Town of Outlook in any zoning district other than residential between the hours of 12:30 am and 7:00 am - vi. Except in an emergency, no person shall carry on the construction, erection, demolition or repair of any type or in any building or structure or on any premise by hammering, sawing, drilling or using any type or kind of tool or power tool or equipment that creates a noise easily heard beyond the boundaries of the site where the work is being carried on except if the construction is being carried on in a site designated in the Zoning Bylaw of the Town as within an Industrial District between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00 am. - vili. No person shall advertise any event or merchandise by ringing bells, blowing whistles, calling loudly, playing music, playing any type of musical instrument, or by the use of loud speakers or other devices for the amplification of sound, or by any place or in any building or premises with the intention or result that the sound therefrom shall be or is audible to persons using or frequenting any street or other public place at any time of day. - vii. Except in an emergency, no person shall operate or allow any heavy equipment to be operated, so as to create noise which may be heard in any residence between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00 am. ## 5. EXCEPTIONS - i. Ringing of bells in churches, religious establishments and schools; - a. The provisions of this bylaw shall not apply to the: - ii. Moderate use of musical instruments to call attention to an opportunity to contribute to a collection made for a charitable undertaking; - iv. Moderate playing of musical instruments appropriate to any religious street service or outdoor community event held between the hours of 7:00 am and 2:30 am; - ili. The sound of any amplification equipment used in connection with any parade; - V. Amplification of sound for announcing rodeo events, track and field events or other competitive sporting activities held between the hours of 7:00 am and 11:00 pm - vii. Use in a reasonable manner of any apparatus or mechanism for the amplification of the human voice or of music in a public park or any other commodious space in connection with any public election meeting, public celebration, or other reasonable gathering; - vi. Use of sound amplification equipment used in the case of an emergency by the police, fire department or any ambulance service or public service, including any department of the Town. 9. Transit vehicles engaged in normal transit operations; 10. Use of any equipment for snow removal, snow clearing or sanding of streets, the 11. repair of streets or the repair and maintenance of any municipal works or utilities; - x. Use of any equipment for the repair or maintenance of any public utilities including the public utilities operated by the Saskatchewan Power Corporation, Saskatchewan Energy, Saskatchewan Telecommunications and the Town. ## 6. DISCRETION - a. At the discretion of Council upon application, the Council may, by resolution, grant an exemption to any person or organization from any of the provisions of this bylaw with respect to any source of sound. ## 7. PENALTY CLAUSE - b. In addition, should the Town incur costs to remove or remedy any nuisance preventing good order or noise pursuant to the enforcement of this bylaw, those costs shall be passed on to the person violating the provisions of this bylaw. - a. Any person who violates any provision of this bylaw is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to the penalty provided for in Schedule "A". ## 8. REPEAL OF EXISTING BYLAWS - a. Bylaw No. 10 (97), Bylaw No. 13 (83), Bylaw No 9 (87) and all bylaws being amendments thereto are hereby repealed.      Rya Hon MAYOR Seal VASKATCHEMAN ADMINISTRATOR Certified a true copy of Bylaw 5(2025) Adopted by resolution of council The 25 day of June 2025. OUTLOOK TOWN OF Ken Rou CAO Administrative Officer SYSKATCHENAN ## SCHEDULE "A" ## PENALTY CLAUSE  1. 2000) and salot exiend one thousand 20 unald stars 81, han two hundred dolars.