The High 40 neighborhood is located within the city limits of Tucson. Therefore we have TPD services and we are subject to the city ordinances. You can access the full list of Tucson's ordinances at this web address:
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/tucson/latest/overview
The site allows you to enter a word or phrase to search for items of interest to you. Some of the questions we have been asked about in the past have been copied from the web site above and pasted below for convenience:
Exterior Fires:
The burning of garbage, rubbish, trash, grass clippings, tree
prunings, waste trade materials, junk auto bodies or parts thereof, or tires,
and any other articles in open fires, bonfires, incinerator or burning devices,
or in other manner, outside of a regular building and within the city is hereby
prohibited except as specifically permitted. Except as specifically provided,
any such fire or burning is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and
unlawful.
No person shall kindle, suffer, maintain, authorize, or permit
any open fire or bonfire, or use or operate with fire any incinerator or other
burning device outside of a regular building within the city without the permit
specified in section 11-7.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, no permit shall
be required for the use and operation of homestyle broilers, barbecue pits, grills,
or other similar cooking devices.
Inoperable
Vehicles:
(a) Prohibited
storage.
(1) No
person owning or having custody of any junked or inoperable vehicle may store
such vehicle on private property, or on any sidewalks, streets or alleys,
within the city, except as otherwise permitted under this section;
(2) No
person owning, occupying or in control of any private property within the city
may store any junked or inoperable vehicle on the owned or occupied property,
or on any abutting sidewalks, streets or alleys, except as otherwise permitted
under this section;
(b) Permitted
storage. This section shall not apply to any junked or inoperable
vehicle stored on private property if the vehicle:
(1) Is
on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner
and licensed by the city under chapter 19 of the Tucson Code, and the
storage of the vehicle is necessary to the operation of the business
enterprise; or
(2) Is
lawfully enclosed within:
a. An
enclosed garage or other permanent building lawfully constructed of opaque
materials without openings, holes or gaps other than doors and windows;
b. A
carport, and an opaque car cover designed for that purpose (and not including
tarps, bed sheets, plastic sheeting, or similar materials) completely covers
the body of the vehicle; or
c. The
rear yard or side yard and screened by any fence, wall or barrier, not less
than five (5) feet in height, constructed of opaque materials which screens it
from view from any adjacent properties and the public right-of-way, and is
equipped with self-latching gates or doors. Such fence, wall or barrier must
comply with section 16-12(e).
Noise:
(a) Maximum
permissible sound levels. No person shall conduct or permit any
activity that produces a dB(A) beyond that person's property line exceeding the
levels specified in Table I. Where property is used for both residential and commercial
purposes, the residential sound levels shall be used only for measurements made
on the portion of the property used solely for residential purposes.
TABLE I
Use of Property Receiving the
Sound
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7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
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10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
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Residential
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70
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62
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Commercial
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72
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65
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Industrial
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85
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70
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All
limits expressed in dB(A)
(b) Other
noises prohibited; standards for excessive noise. Some sounds may be
such that they are not measurable by the sound level meter or may not exceed
the limits set forth in subsection (a) of this section, but nonetheless may be
excessive and may disturb the peace and quiet of a neighborhood or person.
Noises prohibited by this subsection are in violation of this chapter
notwithstanding the fact that there is no apparent violation of subsection (a)
of this section. The following activities are prohibited if they produce
plainly audible sound beyond the property line of the property on which they
are conducted and they disturb the peace and quiet of a neighborhood or person:
(1) Allowing
or causing any continuous or intermittent noise that persists for a period of
at least fifteen (15) minutes and which is caused by using, operating or
permitting to be played any radio, television, tape deck, record player,
amplifier, musical instrument, or instrument, machine or device used for the
production, reproduction or emission of sound;
(2) Creating
or allowing a loud, disturbing noise in connection with the loading or
unloading of any vehicle;
(3) Owning,
possessing, harboring or permitting any animal or bird which frequently or for
continuous duration howls, barks, meows, squawks or makes other sounds. Any
peace officer or any county animal control officer is hereby authorized to
issue citations to owners for any violation of this subsection;
(4) Allowing
or causing any shouting, yelling, screaming or any other form of raucous
vocalization by a person or group of people.
(5) Any
noise created by construction activities including, but not limited to, repair,
remodeling, demolition, drilling, wood cutting or excavation work conducted
from 8:00 p.m. through sunrise Mondays through Saturdays, and at any time on
Sundays and legal holidays; except that a person may engage in the above listed
activities at that person's own residence from sunrise through 8:00 p.m.
Mondays through Saturdays, and between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sundays or
legal holidays.
Pet Poop:
It shall be unlawful
for the owner or person having custody of any dog to fail immediately to move
and dispose of in a sanitary manner any solid waste deposited by such dog on
public property or deposited on private property without the consent of the person
in control of the property. This section shall not apply to blind persons,
persons with mobility disabilities, or police officers or other law enforcement
officers accompanied by police dogs while on emergency.
Shooting:
It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot or discharge any
bullet, stone, shot or other missile with or from an air gun, or with or from a
sling or an elastic spring or bean shooter or any other like appliance within
the city.
Fireworks
Sec. 11-22. Fireworks.
(a) Definitions. The
following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, have the
meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly
indicates a different meaning:
(1) City
permit means a permit issued by the fire chief.
(2) Consumer
fireworks means small firework devices that contain restricted amounts
of pyrotechnic composition designed primarily to produce visible or audible
effects by combustion and that comply with the construction, chemical composition
and labeling regulations prescribed in 49 Code of Federal Regulations part 172
and 173, regulations of the United States consumer product safety commission as
prescribed in 16 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500 and 1507 and the
American pyrotechnics association standard 87-1, standard for construction and
approval for transportation of fireworks, novelties and theatrical
pyrotechnics, December 1, 2001 version.
(3) Display
fireworks means large firework devices that are explosive materials
intended for use in fireworks displays and designed to produce visible or
audible effects by combustion, deflagration or detonation as prescribed by 49
Code of Federal Regulations part 172, regulations of the United States consumer
product safety commission as prescribed in 16 Code of Federal Regulations parts
1500 and 1507 and the American pyrotechnics association standard 87-1, standard
for construction and approval for transportation of fireworks, novelties and
theatrical pyrotechnics, December 1, 2001 version.
(4) Expenses
of an emergency response means reasonable costs directly incurred by
public agencies including but not limited to the city fire, police and public
works departments or other first responders including but not limited to
private ambulance companies that make an appropriate emergency response to an
incident.
(5) Fire
chief means the fire chief or that officer's designee.
(6) Fireworks:
(A) Means
any combustible or explosive composition, substance or combination of substances,
or any article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible
effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation, that is a consumer
firework or display firework.
(B) Does
not include:
(i) Toy
pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other devices in which paper caps containing
not more than twenty-five hundredths grains of explosive compound are used if
constructed so that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place
for the explosion.
(ii) Toy
pistol paper caps that contain less than twenty-hundredths grains of explosive
mixture, or fixed ammunition or primers therefor.
(iii) Federally
deregulated novelty items that are known as snappers, snap caps, party poppers,
glow worms, snakes, toy smoke devices and sparklers.
(7) Permissible
consumer fireworks:
(A) Means
the following types of consumer fireworks as defined by the American
pyrotechnics association standard 87-1, standard for construction and approval
for transportation of fireworks, novelties and theatrical pyrotechnics,
December 1, 2001 version:
(i) Ground
and handheld sparkling devices.
(ii) Cylindrical
fountains.
(iii) Cone
fountains.
(iv) Illuminating
torches.
(v) Wheels.
(vi) Ground
spinners.
(vii) Flitter
sparklers.
(viii) Toy
smoke devices.
(ix) Wire
sparklers or dipped sticks.
(x) Multiple
tube fireworks devices and pyrotecnic articles.
(B) Does
not include anything that is designed or intended to rise into the air and
explode or to detonate in the air or to fly above the ground, including, for
example, firework items commonly known as bottle rockets, sky rockets,
missile-type rockets, helicopters, torpedoes, roman candles and jumping jacks.
