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Ohio

Lowering The Boom on Loud Music in Lorain
Lorain police Officer Pete Rewak destroys a stereo system yesterday. The city of Lorain has cranked up its excessive noise ordinance, and a second offense results in stereo equipment being confiscated and destroyed, according to Lorain Municpal Court Judge Mark Mihok, to avoid it being returned to the streets. "The last three to five months, there's been about one loud stereo citiation issued a day, about 40 a month," Lorain Law Director Mark Provenza said.
Article and picture published by the Morning Journal 10/08/2003. Photograph by Ross Weitzner. You can read more at the Morning Journal.

Boardman Regulates Loud Noise
The Vindicator (OH) - November 20, 2004
Night-time drivers with booming stereos in Boardman will soon have to turn down the volume on their systems after township trustees adopted a resolution banning loud noise. The home-rule resolution, adopted Tuesday, prohibits noise that "annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, health, peace or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary sensibilities."

Cleveland Artists Murdered in Neighbor Dispute
A sixty year old university professor complained about her neighbor's loud music at her apartment building. The neighbor playing the loud music retaliated by shooting her and another resident.
WKYC News (OH) 2006 [WMV]