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§ 255-3 Noise control officers.
§ 255-4 Maximum permissible sound levels.
§ 255-5 Restricted uses and activities.
§ 255-6 Enforcement; violations and penalties.
Noise from animals — See Ch. 91.
Any work or action necessary to deliver essential public services, including, but not limited to, repairing water, gas, electricity, telephone, sewer facilities, or public transportation facilities, removing fallen trees on public right-of-way, dredging navigational waterways, or abating life-threatening conditions.
Either a single pressure peak or a single burst (multiple pressure peaks) that has duration of less than one second.
A municipality with Department-approved noise control ordinance and the employee has received noise enforcement training and is currently certified in noise enforcement. The employee must be acting within his or her designated jurisdiction and must be authorized to issue summons in order to be considered a noise control officer.
The provisions of this chapter shall be enforced by noise control officers. A person shall be qualified to be noise control officer if the person meets the criteria set forth in the definition above and completes, at a frequency specified by the Department in N.J.A.C. 7:29-2.11, a noise certification and recertification course which are offered by the Department of Environmental Sciences of Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey or any other noise certification or recertification course which is offered by an accredited university and approved by the Department.
Sound measurements made by a noise control officer shall conform to the procedures set forth at N.J.A.C. 7:29-2, except that interior sound level measurements shall also conform to the procedures set forth in § 255-4A and C of this chapter and with the definition of "real property line" as contained herein.
Investigate and pursue possible violations of this chapter for sound levels which equal or exceed the sound levels set forth in Tables I and II of this chapter when measured at a receiving property located within the designated jurisdiction of the noise control officer, in accordance with § 255-6 of this chapter.
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit the operation of any source of sound on any source property listed in § 255-2A of this chapter in such a manner as to create a sound level that equals or exceeds the sound level limits set forth in Tables I and II when measured at or within the real property line of any of the receiving properties listed in Tables I and II, except as specified in Subsection B of this section.
Editor's Note: Tables I and II are located at the end of this chapter.
Impulsive sound shall not equal or exceed 80 decibels at all times.
Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the exceptions listed at N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.4.
Construction and demolition activities are exempt from the sound level limits set forth in Tables I and II of this chapter, except as provided for in Subsection B of this section.
Commercial or industrial power tools and landscaping and yard maintenance equipment, excluding emergency work, shall not be operated on a residential property or within 250 feet of a residential property line when operated on commercial or industrial property, between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on weekdays, or between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends or federal holidays, unless such activities can meet the limits set forth in Tables I and II of this chapter. In addition, commercial or industrial power tools and landscaping and yard maintenance equipment, excluding emergency work, utilized on commercial or industrial property shall meet the limits set forth in Tables I and II of this chapter between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. All motorized equipment used in these activities shall be operated with a muffler. At all other times, the limits set forth in Tables I and II of this chapter do not apply to commercial or industrial power tools and landscaping and yard maintenance equipment.
Construction and demolition activity, excluding emergency work, shall not be performed between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on weekdays, or between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends and federal holidays, unless such activities can meet the limits set forth in Tables I and II of of this chapter. All motorized equipment used in construction and demolition activity shall be operated with a muffler. At all other times, the limits set forth in Tables I and II of of this chapter do not apply to construction and demolition activities.
Motorized snowblowers, snow throwers, and lawn equipment with attached snowplows shall be operated at all times with a muffler. At all times, the limits set forth in Tables I and II of of this chapter do not apply.
An exterior burglar alarm of a building or motor vehicle must be activated in such a manner that the burglar alarm terminates its operation within five minutes for continuous airborne sound and 15 minutes for impulsive sound after it has been activated. At all times, the limits set forth at Tables I and II of of this chapter do not apply.
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty for each offense of not more than $2,000. If the violation is of a continuing nature, each day during which it occurs shall constitute an additional, separate, and distinct offense.

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