DEP Environmental Protection Forms Folder 1175, 1996-2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

CHAPTER 2—NOISE CONTROL § 24-242

§ 24-240 Emergency signal devices. After June thirtieth, nineteen hun- dred seventy-three, no person shall operate or permit to be operated an emergency signal device installed on an authorized emergency vehicle which when operated creates a sound level in excess of 90 db(A) when measured at a distance of fifty feet from the center of the forward face of such vehicle.

§ 24-241 Paving breakers. (a) On or after September thirty-first, nine- teen hundred seventy-two, no person shall operate or cause to be operated a paving breaker, other than one operated electrically or hydraulically, man- ufactured prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-three, unless a pneumatic discharge muffler certified by the manufacturer of such muffler to provide a -dynamic insertion loss of 5 db(A) of the sound released from the air discharge of such paving breaker is installed on such air discharge.

(b) No person shall sell, offer for sale for use within the city of New York, operate or permit to be operated a paving breaker manufactured on or after the effective dates set out in table IV which when operated produces a maximum sound level, when measured at a distance of one meter from a face of such paving breaker, exceeding the applicable allowable sound level set out therein.

TABLE IV

Effective date Allowable sound level December 31, 1973 103 dB(a) December 31. 1978 100 dB(A) December 31. 1981 95 dB(A)

§ 24-241.1 Commercial music. No person shall make or cause or permit to be made or caused any music originating from or in connection with the operation of any commercial establishment or enterprise when the level of sound of such music, as measured inside any residential unit is in excess of either;

(a) 45dB(A) as measured with a sound level meter: or

(b) 45dB in any one-third octave band having a center frequency be- tween 63 hertz and 500 hertz inclusive (ANSI bands numbers 18 through 27, inclusive, in accordance with American national standards institute standard S1.6-1984).

§ 24-242 Regulations. The commissioner shall promulgate such regula- tions as he or she may deem necessary with regard to standards and

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