Rochester, NY Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

" Unlike § 75-12 (amplified sound) or § 75-9 (motor vehicles), § 75-13 does not attach a distance-and-time test or a decibel figure; the Council's 1973 findings in § 75-1D specifically identify "loading and unloading of boxes and containers" as one of the city's most frequent sources of "annoying and disturbing noise," which is why the activity got its own section rather than being left to the general excessive-noise definition. Because § 75-4B(1) lists § 75-13 among the sections regulated separately from the citywide § 75-4 property-line test, a delivery driver or business slamming crates and pallets is judged against this dedicated ban rather than the general daytime/nighttime thresholds that apply to stereos or construction equipment.

There is no exemption written into § 75-13 for early-morning or commercial deliveries; the prohibition applies at any hour. Enforcement runs through the Chief of Police and Neighborhood Service Centers Administrators under § 75-20, with complaints handled by the Municipal Code Violations Bureau. Residents can trigger a police investigation by filing a signed deposition under § 75-21 describing the delivery noise, its date and, if known, the business or driver responsible.