New Rochelle, NY Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

" Unlike most of Article III, which sets its own decibel tables (motor vehicles over 10,000 pounds are capped at 86 db(A) under § 213-6, motorboats at 80 db(A) under § 213-10), aircraft get no locally set number. The ordinance instead incorporates whatever ceiling the FAA has certified, including any future revision to Advisory Circular 36-1, so the local standard moves automatically with federal aviation regulation rather than requiring a City Council amendment. Chapter 213 was adopted April 13, 1976 by Ordinance No. " Enforcement sits with the Police Department under § 213-26, which can order a person to cease and desist from a violation and, with a judicial order, seal the offending device.

Section 213-27 sets the penalty for any Chapter 213 offense at a fine of not more than $250 or imprisonment of not more than 15 days, or both, and treats every day a violation continues as a separate offense. A permit for relief from a noise standard on grounds of undue hardship can be sought from the City Clerk under § 213-24, though that hardship track is built for locally set limits like the vehicle and machinery tables, not a violation of a federal certification standard the city has simply adopted by reference.