Amplified music rules in Flint, MI β also called sound permit, PA system, or live music ordinances β set decibel limits, time-of-day restrictions, and when permits are required.
Flint Code Section 31-72(b)(1) prohibits operating any radio, television, phonograph, drum, musical instrument, sound amplifier, or similar device in a manner creating a noise disturbance across a real property boundary, or at 50 feet from a vehicle on a public right-of-way. Section 31-72(b)(2) separately regulates loudspeakers and public-address systems. Section 31-72(b)(7) caps live-venue interior sound at 100 dBA without a posted warning sign.
Flint's amplified-sound framework lives in Section 31-72(b)(1), (b)(2), and (b)(7). Section 31-72(b)(1) reaches radios, TVs, phonographs, drums, musical instruments, sound amplifiers, and similar devices, prohibiting operation that creates a noise disturbance across a real property boundary, at 50 feet from a vehicle on public right-of-way, or to any non-operator passenger on a common carrier. Section 31-72(b)(2) splits loudspeakers and PA systems into noncommercial nighttime use (banned if creating residential boundary disturbance), commercial use (banned at any boundary, or anytime at nighttime in public right-of-way), and vehicle-mounted-outside-cab speakers (always banned for noncommercial purposes). Section 31-72(b)(7) requires venues exceeding 100 dBA (slow-response, A-weighted) at a customer-occupied point to post a 'Warning: Sound Levels Within May Cause Permanent Hearing Impairment' sign at each public entrance. Section 31-72(a) exempts noncommercial public-speaking and public-assembly activities on public space or right-of-way - a deliberate First Amendment carve-out reinforced by Ward v. Rock Against Racism, 491 U.S. 781 (1989), and Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 576 U.S. 155 (2015).
Section 31-78(a): up to $1,500 fine, 90 days jail, or both. Section 31-78(b) supplies the $25 first-offense waiver at the District Court Clerk. Each subsection violation (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(7) is independently chargeable. Venues missing the 100 dBA warning sign required by Section 31-72(b)(7) face the same penalty schedule.
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