PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Town Board of the Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, State of New York will meet at the Victor T. Liss Board Room, Town Hall, 99 West Main Street, Smithtown, New York on Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. time then in effect to consider a proposed amendment to Chapter 207 of the Code of the Town of Smithtown entitled “Noise” as it relates to prohibitions.
Chapter 207. Noise
Additions indicated by underlines.
Deletions indicated by strikeouts.
§207-2. Prohibitions.
B. No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the following acts:
(15) Domestic equipment: the operation of or permitting to be operated any power saw, drill, sander, router, lawn or garden device, leaf or snow blower, insect control device or domestic equipment so as to create a noise disturbance, except between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on weekdays, 8:00 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on Saturdays and between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Sundays, and except in cases of emergency or in the interest of public safety.
§207-3. Maximum permissible A-weighted sound pressure levels.
B. The following are exempt from the A-weighted sound pressure level limits of Table I:
(1) The noise of domestic power tools, lawn mowers and agricultural equipment, when operated with a muffler, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays and 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekends and legal holidays during permitted hours designated in §207-2(15), provided that they produce less than 70 dBA at any real property line of a residential property.
Dated: August 14, 2018
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD
OF THE TOWN OF SMITHTOWN
VINCENT PULEO
TOWN CLERK