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Columbus City Common Council approves updated noise ordinance on second reading
Summary
The Columbus City Common Council approved a rewritten city noise ordinance on its second reading Feb. 4 after discussion about commercial vendors, garbage collection and enforcement by police or code officers.
The Columbus City Common Council on Feb. 4 approved a replacement noise ordinance in its second reading, after council members and staff answered questions on how the rewrite treats mobile vendors, loudspeakers and waste-collection noise.
Council members said the ordinance is intended as an update and cleanup of the older code, aligning local terms with Indiana statutory language and increasing penalties to give enforcement "more teeth." The rewrite had been reviewed by the ordinance review group and by police before…
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