Noise Ordinances in Greece, NY (2026)
7 verified noise ordinances for Greece, New York, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Quiet Hours
Greece runs a nightly noise curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., during which the exemptions that normally protect special events, festivals and permitted gatherings from the noise code no longer apply. Only snow equipment keeps its exemption around the clock.
Greece Nighttime Quiet Hours
Some RestrictionsGreece Code § 139-6.C
This section, with the exception of Subsection B(8), does not apply during the hours of 10:00 p.m. through 9:00 a.m. of the following day. During these hours, this chapter shall apply. [Amended 4-21-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
Construction Hours
Greece bars construction activity that creates excessive noise at a job site's property limits between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. every day of the week. The Building Inspector can grant a hardship variance, and emergency repair work gets a 72-hour grace period.
Greece Construction Noise Hours
Some RestrictionsGreece Code § 139-5.A
No person shall engage in or permit any person to be engaged in construction activities which creates excessive noise at the property limits of the construction site between the hours of 10:00 p.m. of one day and 7:00 a.m. of the following day on any day of the week, except as is permitted in Subsections B and C hereof.
Barking Dogs
Greece bans letting a dog bark, howl, whine or cry frequently, prolonged, continually, habitually or excessively enough to disturb another person's peace, whether or not the dog is on its owner's own property, and allows an Animal Control Officer to enter and seize the dog if the nuisance won't stop.
Greece Barking Dog Nuisance Rule
Some RestrictionsGreece Code § 89-5
No person shall allow, permit or fail to prevent any dog owned, cared for or controlled, kept, cared for or harbored by him/her that engages in frequent, prolonged, continual, habitual or excessive barking, howling, whining or crying or conducts itself in such a manner as to unreasonably or habitually annoy or disturb the comfort, peace or repose of any person other than the dog owner, whether ...
Leaf Blower Rules
Greece does not ban leaf blowers or require electric models, but it does confine them by time: lawn and yard power tools, including leaf blowers, are only exempt from the noise code between 8:00 a.m. and sunset. Outside those hours the general noise ordinance applies.
Greece Leaf Blower Hours
Light RestrictionsGreece Code § 139-6.B(7)
The use of lawnmowers, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, chain saws, tillers, mulchers, chippers and other domestic power tools and devices used for the care and maintenance of lawns, yards and vegetation between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and sunset. [Added 4-21-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
Amplified Music & Outdoor Sound
Greece bans amplified sound equipment run louder than needed for the voluntary listener, and it is automatically a violation if the excessive noise carries beyond the property line or 25 feet in a public park. The ban runs hardest between 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.
Greece Amplified Sound Rules
Some RestrictionsGreece Code § 139-6.A
No person shall use or operate or permit to be used or operated any radio, television, phonograph, tape or other recorder of sound, musical instrument or other apparatus, machine or device for the production, reproduction or amplification of excessive noise with louder volume than is necessary for convenient hearing for the person or persons who are voluntary listeners thereto. It shall be prim...
Decibel Limits
Greece's Noise Law sets a hard numeric line at 85 decibels: any sound exceeding that level counts as "excessive noise" and is banned, alongside a broader, subjective standard covering sounds that disturb a reasonable person's peace and quiet, enforced Townwide by the Police Department.
Greece Noise Law 85-Decibel Limit
Some RestrictionsGreece Code § 139-3
Sound which is annoying, causes alarm, disturbs a reasonable person of reasonable sensitivity, unreasonably causes public inconvenience, or unreasonably disturbs the quiet use and enjoyment of one's life and property. ... "Excessive noise" also includes incessant or repeated sounds that have the effect of disturbing the welfare, comfort, peace and quiet of the community, or any sound in excess ...
Vehicle Noise
Greece bans excessively loud vehicles using a distance test rather than a decibel meter: a vehicle's noise is illegal if it is audible 25 feet or more away on a public street, park or public place, or audible at the property line when parked or operated on private land.
Greece Vehicle Noise Ordinance
Some RestrictionsGreece Code § 139-4D
No person shall operate or cause to be operated any motor vehicle in such a manner that the sound emitted is excessive noise as defined in this chapter and: The excessive noise is audible at a distance of 25 feet or more from the vehicle when operated or parked on a public street, in a park, or other public place; or the excessive noise is audible at or beyond the property line when a vehicle i...
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