{"id":21790,"date":"2013-06-06T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21790"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:58:45","slug":"city-council-adopts-loud-music-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21790","title":{"rendered":"City Council Adopts Loud Music Ordinances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LEON B. CREWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, after a heated discussion and input from citizens, the Tampa City Council adopted a pair of ordinances to deal with loud music. The ordinances will address loud music coming from cars only.<\/p>\n<p>The main point of concern for the Council was the penalty phase, as many felt that playing loud music was not a criminal act, and should not require the offender be arrested and taken to jail.<\/p>\n<p>The primary focus was to create an ordinance police could enforce when they receive calls of complaints from citizens, or personally witness a vehicle playing loud music.<\/p>\n<p>Council members decided that the ordinance should be applied as a Civil Penalty, and come under Classification Two. That means first time violators would be fined $150, second time violators $300, and on the third offense, you would be fined $450, with law enforcement given the option of arresting the violator.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Police District III Commander, <strong>Major Diane Hobley-Burney<\/strong>, addressed the Council by telling them they do not put people in jail or impound cars because of loud music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will support whatever position you take, because it is our responsibility to make sure citizens enjoy the quality of life they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maj. Hobley-Burney<\/strong> said in 2010, her district received 234 calls for loud music coming from cars; 1,045 in 2011, and 851 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, we have nothing we can use as a tool. We can stop a vehicle playing loud music, and ask them to turn it down, and if they refuse, there\u2019s nothing we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Councilman Reddick<\/strong> made a motion that the ordinances be done with their recommendations, and he was seconded by <strong>Councilman Suarez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>City Attorney <strong>Rebecca Kert<\/strong> returned to Council with two ordinances, one that addresses the violation, and another that will address the penalty for violators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer On Thursday, after a heated discussion and input from citizens, the Tampa City Council adopted a pair of ordinances to deal with loud music. The ordinances will address loud music coming from cars only. The main point of concern for the Council was the penalty phase, as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}