Cheektowaga, NY Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

' That means none of the chapter's operative provisions, the general nuisance prohibition in § 166-4, the specific prohibitions in § 166-5, or the Table I decibel limits in § 166-6, apply to aircraft noise; jurisdiction instead rests with the Federal Aviation Administration and applicable state transportation noise standards. The exemption sits alongside eight other carve-outs in the same subsection, covering emergency vehicles on calls, Town-permitted parades and fireworks, emergency construction, emergency alarms before a reasonable chance to silence them, church bells, parade or funeral music, municipal refuse collection, and routine maintenance on Town-owned facilities.

Section 166-9B states the Town Board's intent that the chapter supplement federal and state noise regulation rather than duplicate or override it, consistent with federal preemption of aircraft noise regulation generally. Because there is no local aircraft-noise standard, residents near flight paths have no Town Code section to cite for overflight complaints; those complaints route to the airport authority or the FAA rather than to Cheektowaga's Building Inspection Department or Police Department, the agencies that enforce the rest of Chapter 166.