5 rules for unincorporated Gloucester County, New Jersey.
Verified from official government sources
New Jersey's state noise code, N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.2, caps nighttime sound at 50 dBA at any residential property line from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Every Gloucester County municipality enforces this floor and most set stricter local hours.
N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.2
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit sound from any industrial, commercial, or community service facility that, when measured at any residential property line of any affected person, is in excess of any of the following: ... Continuous airborne sound which has a sound level in excess of 65 dBA [7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.]; ... Continuous airborne sound which has a sound level in excess ...
Construction hours are set by each Gloucester County municipality, not the state. Deptford, Washington Township, and Glassboro limit powered work to weekday daytime, and equipment noise must still meet the 65 dBA daytime limit of N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.2.
N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.2
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit sound from any industrial, commercial, or community service facility that, when measured at any residential property line of any affected person, is in excess of any of the following: ... Continuous airborne sound which has a sound level in excess of 65 dBA [7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.].
Chronic barking is handled by each Gloucester County municipality's animal-noise ordinance, backed by disorderly conduct law N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2. Deptford, Monroe Township, and Washington Township bar dogs that disturb neighbors by habitual or prolonged barking.
N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2
A person is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense, if with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof he (1) Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; or (2) Creates a hazardous or physically dangerous condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
Leaf-blower limits are set by each Gloucester County municipality, not the state. Deptford, Washington Township, and Glassboro fold blowers into general noise-ordinance hours; New Jersey imposes no statewide gas-blower ban.
Amplified music answers to the state noise code, N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.2, capping sound at 65 dBA by day and 50 dBA overnight at a residential property line, plus each town's ordinance and disorderly conduct law N.J.S.A. 2C:33-2.
N.J.A.C. 7:29-1.2
No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit sound from any industrial, commercial, or community service facility that, when measured at any residential property line of any affected person, is in excess of any of the following: ... Continuous airborne sound which has a sound level in excess of 65 dBA [7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.]; ... Continuous airborne sound which has a sound level in excess ...
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