Council Approves Noise Restriction

The City Council gave final approval Tuesday to an amended noise ordinance that restricts yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, singing and playing music or a musical instrument at certain hours.

The council began considering the change less than two weeks after Dennis Rodman’s 40th birthday party brought more than two dozen police officers, some of them in riot gear, to his oceanfront home.

Rodman, who accused local leaders earlier of singling him out after raucous parties, did not attend Tuesday’s session. At the first reading of the ordinance May 23, he pleaded with council members not to stiffen noise restrictions.

Among other changes, the amendments require police to issue formal warnings to noisemakers that they are being loud and unreasonable, giving them time to comply with the restrictions before an arrest is made.