§ 3-1.6. Prohibited acts.
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No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit to be made, verbally or mechanically, any noise disturbance. Noncommercial public speaking and public assembly activities conducted on any public space or public right-of-way shall be exempt from the operation of this subsection.
b.No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the following acts:
1.Sound reproduction systems. Operation, playing or permitting the operation or playing of any radio, television, phonograph or similar device that reproduces or amplifies sound in such a manner as to create a noise disturbance for any person other than the operator of the device.
2.Loudspeakers/public address system. Using or operating of any loudspeaker, public address system or similar device other than as may otherwise be permitted in other regulations of the Township.
3.Animals and birds. Owning, possessing or harboring any pet animal or pet bird that frequently or for continued duration makes sounds that create a noise disturbance across a residential real property line. Fore the purpose of this subsection, a noise disturbance from a barking dog shall be defined as that crated by a dog barking continually for 10 minutes or intermittently for 30 minutes, unless provoked.
4.Loading and unloading. Loading, unloading, opening, closing or other handling of boxes, crates, containers, building materials, liquids, garbage cans, refuse or similar objects or the compacting of refuse:
(a)Between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day in such a manner as to exceed any applicable limit set forth in Title 7, Chapter 29 of the New Jersey Administrative Code across a residential property line.
(b)By persons engaged in the business of scavenging or garbage collection, whether private or municipal, between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. the following day, except by permit.
5.Motor vehicle repairs and testing. Repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing any motor vehicle or motorboat in such a manner as to exceed any applicable limit in Title 7, Chapter 29 of the New Jersey Administrative Code across a residential real property line.
6.Construction and demolition. Operation or permitting the operation of any tools or equipment used in construction, drilling, earthmoving, excavating or demolition work between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the following day or weekday or any time on weekends or legal holidays; except for emergency work or by special variance issued pursuant to subsection 3-1.7 of this chapter and provided that such equipment is equipped with a proper muffler.
7.Air conditioning, air handling devices and wind energy conversion systems. The operation of air conditioning, air-handling devices, including heat pumps, or wind energy conversion systems that produces a sound level greater than 55 dBA at a real property line of a residential property, except when the operation produces less than an increase of five dBA in the sound level that exists in the absence of such sound.