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3/12/2024 <br />Indian River County Night Train Horn <br />Ordinance Ban <br />• Section 306.04 — Bans train horns from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. <br />• Not enforceable <br />• 1991 — FRA Emergency Order 15 pre-empts 1984 Florida statute <br />permitting local whistle bans at highway -rail grade crossings along <br />FEC <br />• 2005 - FRA Locomotive Horn Final Rule (49 CFR 222) establishes <br />national regulations and pre-empts local ordinances <br />Section 306.04. - Sounding of train horns or whistles between certain hours <br />It shall be unlawful for any engineer, conductor, fireman or other person in charge of or in <br />control of any locomotive or railroad train of any railroad company operating wholly within <br />this state to sound any railroad train horn, whistle or other audible warning signal between <br />10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in advance of or at any rail highway crossing located within <br />Indian River County, providing that the crossing is equipped with train -activated automatic <br />i, <br />traffic control devices, which shall include, flashing lights, bells and crossing gates <br />(Ord. No. 90-28, § 1, 12-11-90) <br />r: <br />Quiet Zone Length Requirements <br />Quiet . . <br />Zone Legend <br />• Quiet zone crossing <br />Train horn crossing <br />0.25 mile 0.50 mile 0.25 mile <br />min. min. min. <br />• A Quiet Zone must be at least 1/2 mile long <br />• There must be no other crossings within a 1/4 mile of the beginning <br />or end of the quiet zone <br />Quiet Zone Hours <br />• All Day <br />• 10PMto7AM <br />j- 4 <br />