Abstract
This paper is a follow-up of The Analysis of 500 Noise Ordinances, presented at the 171 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. In the first paper, the noise ordinances from the 500 largest communities in the United States were analyzed with respect to the regulatory tools, metrics and criteria communities use to regulate noise. The prevalence of various techniques employed in noise regulations were presented and discussed. The regulatory tools and techniques analyzed included pressure level limits, as well as nuisance, disturbing the peace, plainly audible, minimum distance, and time of day based regulations. In this paper, a random sample of the 500 noise ordinances were chosen, and the police departments in those cities were contacted, to determine how the ordinances were enforced, what regulatory tools were relied upon in enforcement, and why those tools and not others in the noise ordinance were used. Particular attention is given the role of decibel based regulatory tools including A-weighted, C-weighted, and octave band metrics in police enforcement of noise ordinances.
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