5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in York County, South Carolina.
Verified from official government sources
Yelling, shouting, and singing on public streets are barred 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., and residential noise can't exceed 60 decibels at the lot line, under York County Code §56.016.
York County Code §56.016
Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing on the public streets, particularly between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
York County Code §56.016 bars piledrivers, pneumatic hammers, hoists, and other loud building equipment between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in residential blocks; daytime tools must stay under 75 dB(A).
York County Code §56.016
In conducting any building operations between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., to operate or use any piledrivers, steam shovels, pneumatic hammers, derricks, steam or electric hoists or other apparatus, the use of which is attended with loud or unusual noise, in any block in which more than half of the buildings on either side of the street are used exclusively for residential purposes.
York County Code §56.016 makes it unlawful to keep any animal whose frequent or long-continued noise disturbs the comfort or repose of neighbors; animal control treats it as a public nuisance too.
York County Code §56.016
The keeping of any animal which by causing frequent or long-continued noise shall disturb the comfort or repose of any persons in the vicinity.
York County allows leaf blowers, lawnmowers, and garden tools between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. as long as they stay under 85 dB(A) at the nearest residence, under York County Code §56.016.
York County Code §56.016
Sound produced by operating or permitting the operation of any mechanically powered saw, drill, sander, router, grinder, lawn or garden tool, lawnmower, agricultural related equipment or activities, or other similar device used between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. and which activity did not produce a sound exceeding 85 dB(A) when measured from the nearest residential property where the ...
York County Code §56.016 bans radios, loudspeakers, and sound-amplifying devices played so loud they unreasonably disturb people nearby; residential noise can't exceed 60 decibels at the lot line.
York County Code §56.016
Sound-amplifying devices generally. Operating or causing or permitting to be operated any automatic or electrical piano, phonograph, graphophone, victrola, radio or loudspeakers, or any instrument or sound-producing or sound-amplifying device of like character, so loud as to unreasonably disturb persons in the vicinity thereof.
1 cities in York County have their own noise ordinances rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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