CHAPTER 2—NOISE CONTROL
§ 24-244
(ii) For temporary conditions, or to conduct noise
impact assessment
tests in accordance with a plan submitted to and
approved by the depart-
ment, a variance for a period of up to six months may be
granted.
(iii) Any person seeking a variance shall do so by
filing a petition in a
form acceptable to the commissioner, and shall also
submit an assessment of
the noise impact to be caused by the activity for
which the variance is
requested.
§ 24-244 Allowable sound levels. (a) On or
after November eighteenth,
nineteen hundred seventy-nine, the commissioner may by
regulation pro-
mulgate allowable sound levels with respect to any
device or activity,
provided that such allowable sound levels shall not be
inconsistent with the
ambient noise criteria and standards enacted under section
24-243 of this
subchapter, with the allowable sound levels set out in subchapter
chapter of this code, and with the provisions of chapter five of this
one of title twenty-
seven of the code.
(b) No person shall engage in or cause any other person
to engage in an
activity, or operate or permit the operation of a device so
as to cause a sound
level in excess of the appropriate allowable sound level
promulgated by the
commissioner pursuant to this section.
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